David, please introduce yourself.
I’m David Chandler, a Senior Researcher at NORCE.
Tell us about your professional and academic career before becoming part of the OCEAN ICE community.
I am mostly a glaciologist, previously based at Aberystwyth then Bristol in the UK. I worked on various projects studying ice dynamics and hydrology in the Alps and Greenland, using a mix of fieldwork and modelling. Field glaciology is great if you like crevasses, avalanches and damp teabags! After that I was working in tree surgery and forestry for several years, in the Scottish Highlands and Dunedin (New Zealand). I then ended up back in academia as a postdoc then senior researcher at NORCE. Here I have mainly been working on Antarctic Ice Sheet modelling and Southern Ocean paleoclimate, over glacial/interglacial timescales (last 800,000 years, as part of the TiPACCs project). I'm now focused on OCEAN ICE work with ice sheet freshwater fluxes in NorESM, and am also joining a new project "i2B" where I will be running Greenland Ice Sheet simulations for some past warm periods.
What do you do within OCEAN ICE?
I'm running NorESM simulations as part of WP5, and will use Antarctic freshwater fluxes provided by ice sheet modellers within OCEAN ICE.
What have you enjoyed about OCEAN ICE so far?
I like the wide diversity of interests ranging from ocean observations through to ice modelling. I was on parental leave for the kick off meeting, so the annual meeting last year was a great place to meet some new and some familiar faces.
Tell us about a skill or trait unique to you that you would like to share?
Not sure about that! Problem solving has been the only skill shared across all the different jobs I have done and that always starts by drinking some tea. So, if you come and visit I can probably make you a decent cup of tea 🙂
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