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Michael Hambrey

Editor Glaciers online

Michael Hambrey is Emeritus Professor of Glaciology and former Director of the Centre for Glaciology in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. He was Founding Director of the Climate Change Consortium of Wales. Mike's research interests embrace glacial geology and the structural glaciology of valley glaciers. He has published about 150 scientific papers and several books, including “Glacial Environments” (1994), “Glaciers” (with Jürg Alean, 2nd edn. 2004), “Islands of the Arctic” with Julian Dowdeswell (2002), “Gletscher der Welt” (with Jürg Alean, 2013), and “Colour Atlas of Glacial Phenomena" (with Jürg Alean, 2016).

Mike has undertaken glaciological fieldwork in Norway, New Zealand, the Swiss Alps, the Andes, the Himalaya, the Canadian Arctic, Yukon, Alaska, Greenland, Svalbard and Antarctica. For his work in the polar regions he has been awarded the “Polar Medal” twice by Her Majesty the Queen (1989 &2012) and has been honoured with the naming of “Hambrey Cliffs” on James Ross Island, Antarctica. Although “retired” and living in the beautiful glaciated area of the English Lake District, he now undertakes occasional lecturing and guiding on polar expedition ships, and gives frequent talks in the UK about climate change, glaciers and geology.