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Women In Polar Science

Lu An, PhD

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Lu stands in front of an oil painting by Diane Burko depicting Jakobshavn Glacier in Central Greenland, one of the most active glaciers in Greenland. She is at the National Academy of Science in Washington, DC (2018).

Lu stands in front of an oil painting by Diane Burko depicting Jakobshavn Glacier in Central Greenland, one of the most active glaciers in Greenland. She is at the National Academy of Science in Washington, DC (2018).

What’s the work that you do?

I joined Eric Rignot’s research group at UC Irvine in 2011 and graduated with a Ph.D. in 2017. Currently, I work at the College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, Tongji University, China. I have been working on using high-resolution airborne gravity data combined with other data sets to infer the bathymetry of fjords and bed topography of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica. The aim is to create data sets that are critical to understanding the role of ice-ocean interaction in controlling the evolution of glaciers and ice sheets.

What keeps you going?

For almost ten years, I conducted research in polar science with my advisor at UC Irvine. He is a great scientist full of enthusiasm, which was inspiring in all these years of hard work. You could say he was a lighthouse on my way to pursue the truth of science. And the field experiences in Alaska (2016) and Greenland (2018) also inspired me to continue my research in the Polar area.

What’s your message to the world?

As the climate changes, global sea level rise will be one of the major environmental challenges of the 21st Century. I would like to contribute my effort to improve our estimates of sea level rise by figuring out how oceans interact with glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.

Organisation: Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Nationality: China China

Disciplines:

Glaciology (Polar Remote Sensing)

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We are grateful to The Ocean Foundation for acting as our fiscal sponsor in the US, the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation for sponsoring this project, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for supporting us.