Alun Hubbard is a field-glaciologist and geophysicist at the University of Oulu, but he is also based in Tromsø. Over 35 years, he has led dozens of interdisciplinary field projects examining the impacts of climate change on the dynamics of glaciers, ice sheets, and sea-ice across the Arctic - particularly Greenland, but also in Svalbard, Alaska, the Alps, Himalaya, Patagonia and Antarctica. Alun has presented on gong-winning documentaries such as Frozen Planet, Our Arctic and Chasing Ice - viewed by 100s of Millions worldwide. He is called on as an expert witness for global news media, and politicians / policymakers at, for example, the WEF and the inner circle of UN Climate (COP) Summits. Beyond academia, Alun is a passionate mountaineer, guide and conservationist with dozens of first ascents in Alaska, Yukon, Greenland, Patagonia, and Antarctica. He has circumnavigated the planet in his own sailboat, logged 115k nautical miles in high-latitude waters whilst using it as a base to over-winter in Greenland and Antarctica. With a unique combination of scientific expertise and exploratory spirit, Alun is a leading voice in addressing the challenges facing our planet's sublime, but rapidly changing, polar regions.
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