Samantha Hansen, PhD

What’s the work that you do?

I’m a professor, and I also conduct research in both Antarctica and Greenland. My work focuses on determining the solid-Earth structure beneath these areas using different seismic techniques. These details allow us to decipher the tectonic history of the region and also provide important constraints for ice-sheet modeling.

What keeps you going?

I love to travel, and my job provides some amazing opportunities to do that. I also like working with students. Training the next generation of polar scientists is very rewarding.

What’s your message to the world?

“Well-behaved women seldom make history” -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich