My academic research is field-based and has taken me to most of the icy corners of our Earth, including glaciers in Greenland, Antarctica, Svalbard, Chilean Patagonia, the Peruvian Andes and the Himalaya. I’ve been fortunate to have been supported by many incredible teams of researchers and have won several prestigious national awards for my research, including a Philip Leverhulme Prize and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. I am particularly interested in glacier-hosted life and the impacts of glaciers on our global carbon cycle. I have written over 100 academic journal articles, one academic book and have recently finished my first book for a wide audience - Ice Rivers.