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Cryospheric Sciences

Alex Bradley

Alex is a postdoc at the British Antarctic Survey, working on making models of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. You can find him on X @abraleey.

Cryoscientist life stories: Experiences of an ‘office glaciologist’

The view of a glacier from a scientific cruise to the Arctic. Alex has never visited the glaciers he models, but he gets to understand and see them in a different way. Image credit: Bryony Freer

Both glaciological research conducted in the field, and in the office, are vital — and ‘count’ as glaciology. Often, however, those of us who remain in our cozy offices can be forgotten, or thought to lead a ‘boring’ job. Alex Bradley, a modeller of glaciers, is here to remind you why the office glaciologist is fundamental to the Cryosphere, and why glaciology from a distance is key to the future. ...[Read More]