Jemma Wadham
Jemma Wadham is Professor of Glaciology at UiT the Arctic University of Norway/Norwegian Polar Institute and University of Bristol. She has led more than twenty-five expeditions to glaciers around the world, including to Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya, and has won several prestigious national awards for her research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. She is best known as a pioneer in the field of understanding glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. Ice Rivers is the first book she has written for a general readership.
Articles featuring Jemma Wadham
How I wrote it: Jemma Wadham on Ice Rivers
Glaciologist Jemma Wadham never anticipated a career as an author – until life-saving brain surgery changed her mind. She talks about balancing science and memoir, hope and warning and how she wrote a book in seven weeks.
