Adaptation to climate change

Climate change is here – so what can we do about it? Martin Siegert identified key climate change issues, strategies for mitigating these and the adaptation challenges they pose.

Martin Siegert, Imperial College London

Martin is a glaciologist who studies past, present and future changes to the flow and form of ice sheets, particularly in Antarctica. He specializes in understanding processes beneath the ice, and has identified around 400 subglacial lakes as well as ancient preglacial surfaces across Antarctica. He is currently the co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change & Environment at Imperial College London. He leads the UK Lake Ellsworth Consortium which aims to identify life in, and acquire climate change records from, an ancient subglacial lake in West Antarctica, and the UK lead of the international ICECAP project, which acquires airborne geophysical data from across Antarctica.