Monica Winsborrow
Job description
Monica Winsborrow is a Professor at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. She is also assistant director of iC3: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate- a Norwegian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence, which aims to determine the impact of changing polar glaciers and ice sheets on Earth´s carbon cycle and marine ecosystems.
Monica holds a PhD Degree in Palaeoglaciology from Sheffield University (UK).
Research interests
Monica has worked extensively across the Arctic, studying land- and sea- scapes for information about the vast ice sheets that covered these areas under past ice ages. Her research seeks to understand the processes and mechanisms that controlled the waxing and waning of ice sheets during past periods of climatic change. Such knowledge is vital if we are to better predict the response of today’s ice masses to future change. Monica is passionate about building supportive, stimulating research collaborations to address critical issues in Polar science.
She is assistant director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence: iC3 Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (https://ic3.uit.no/), and co-PI of the ERC Synergy Project Into the Blue (https://in2blue.eu/).
Teaching
Monica regularly teaches at undergraduate and post-graduate levels within the fields of glaciology, Quaternary science and climate change.
She leds the annual iC3 Field School: Ice-to-ocean biogeochemical cycling in a changing Arctic, a unique course that includes extensive fieldwork in Lyngen from the glacial margins, through the valley and into the fjord.
https://ic3.uit.no/research-and-study-with-us/ic3-field-school-in-the-lyngen-alps