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Chris Horvat

Chris is a PhD student, oceanographer, and climate modeler at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. His research is motivated by the need to understand and model links between small and large scales in Earth’s climate system. He focuses on understanding how sea-ice floes evolve and interact, how ocean eddies proliferate in the polar oceans, and how phytoplankton blooms may develop underneath sea ice. He tweets as @chhorvat and you can also reach him on his website.

Image of the Week – On thin [Arctic sea] ice

October 19, 2018
Image of the Week – On thin [Arctic sea] ice

Perhaps the most enduring and important signal of a warming climate has been that the minimum Arctic sea ice extent, occurring each year in September, has declined precipitously. Over the last 40 years, most of the Arctic sea ice has thus been transformed to first-year ice that freezes in the winter and melts in the …[Read More]

Image of the Week – Sea Ice Floes!

December 2, 2016
Image of the Week – Sea Ice Floes!

The polar regions are covered by a thin sheet of sea ice – frozen water that forms out of the same ocean water it floats on. Often, portrayals of Earth’s sea ice cover show it as a great, white, sheet. Looking more closely, however reveals the sea ice cover to be a varied and jumbled …[Read More]