Sea Ice

"I vividly remember coming up with the concept of an edited book on sea ice while attending the EASIZ Symposium at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven in June 1999. While there were several books available covering the physics of ice, or the biology and chemistry, there was no contemporary book that adequately tried to bring the various disciplines together in one forum. From its infancy the study of sea ice was underpinned by a multidisciplinary approach in the field and so the concept was to try to replicate the approach in a summary tome, where key facets of a research discipline could be explained"--

David Thomas is based at the University of Helsinki where he is the Professor of Arctic Ecosystem Research in the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Previously (1996 to 2020) he was at Bangor University, U.K., where from 2006 he held the Chair of Marine Biology in the School of Ocean Sciences. From 2009 to 2013 he also held an Academy of Finland Distinguished Professorship at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).