2022 | Julienne Stroeve

Annual Lecture 2022: Why should we care about the shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Cover?

2022 Annual Lecture: Why should we care about the shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Cover?

This was the theme of the 2022 Annual Lecture, organised by Finisterra journal, which took place on 25 November at 16:30 (Lisbon time, Portugal), in hybrid format (in-person and online).

Julienne C. Stroeve (University of Manitoba, Canada) was the invited speaker for this session.

She holds a PhD in Geography (1996) from the University of Colorado – Boulder, USA. Julienne C. Stroeve served as Professor and Researcher in climate–sea ice feedbacks at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She was a Senior Research Scientist for over 20 years at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC, CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Between 2016 and 2019, she taught polar environment modelling and monitoring at University College London (UCL), UK. In 2020, she was awarded the Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU), in recognition of her "significant scientific contribution to improving remote sensing of sea ice, better understanding the causes of sea ice variability and change, and her committed science communication with the general public.”

Since 2014, she has consistently received high citation counts on the indexing platform Clarivate – Web of Science. Her research has focused on remote sensing of snow and ice, particularly snow depth and ice thickness derived from satellite altimetry, and their relation to sea ice variability and the implications of continued sea ice loss on climate, marine ecosystems, and local communities. Her broad Arctic research interests included atmosphere–sea ice interactions, synoptic climatology, sea ice predictability, remote sensing, climate change, and impacts on Indigenous communities. She conducted fieldwork in Greenland, Canada, the Arctic Ocean, and snow-covered regions of the United States. Over the past decade, her work increasingly concentrated on understanding the rapid environmental changes taking place in the Arctic and their implications for the rest of the planet.

Venue: Orlando Ribeiro Auditorium, IGOT Building – University of Lisbon, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, 1600-276 Lisbon