People

Areas of Expertise: Sea Ice Earth Observation; Land Ice Earth Observation

Associated Projects: IMBIE; CCI Antartica; PRESCIENT

Andy Shepherd is the head of the Department of Geography and Environment at Northumbria University, Director of the NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Principal Scientific Advisor to the European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite mission, co-leader of the ESA-NASA Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise, and a contributing author to IPCC assessment reports.

Andy uses satellites to study Earth’s climate, and his main contributions to science have involved developing remote observations of the cryosphere – especially using radar altimetry. He has led field campaigns in Europe, Africa, the Arctic, and in Antarctica to calibrate and validate satellite sensors.

Andy studied in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, and has held academic posts at University College London, and the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Leeds.

Email: andrew.shepherd@northumbria.ac.uk

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