Peter Wadhams is one of the world’s most experienced sea ice scientists, having spent the past half century leading research programs on sea ice and ocean processes in the Arctic and the Antarctic, involving 56 field operations, including 6 on submarines.
He retired as Professor of Ocean Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, and before that was Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
He is the author of more than 330 papers on sea ice, waves in ice, icebergs, ocean convection and similar topics.
His work on ice thickness led him to discover the thinning of Arctic sea ice in 1990, and since then he has focused on climate change, why it is so rapid in the Arctic, and what we must do to save the world from its accelerating impacts.
His book “A Farewell to Ice” (Allen Lane 2016; Oxford University Press NY, 2017; 8 languages), in italian “Addio ai ghiacci”, deals with this question of how Arctic change leads to global impacts, and strongly advocates carbon dioxide removal.
He has been awarded the Polar Medal (HM The Queen, UK). At present he is Visiting Professor at Politecnico di Torino carrying out a climate change program there.
