Hi I'm Jules. Welcome to my web site. This site exists for me to share the results of my work, mostly in the polar regions. I hope you find it both useful and interesting.
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I am a geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey. My work has involved two field seasons on Pine Island Glacier. The austral summer (winter in the UK) of 2006/2007 in which I camped on the ice for two months and the austral summer of 2007/2008 in which I spent three months on the ice. Pine Island Glacier is really important for the stability of a large part of the Antarctic land ice. It is also really remote. Only once before has anyone stepped onto the main trunck of the glacier and that was in January 1961. Along with Andy Smith and Rob Bingham I have done extensive geophysical surveys investigate the motion of the glacier.
In my previous job I worked on Greenland, using high frequency radar to examine how the radar signal reflects from the ice. This is very important because the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet is measured using radar, from planes and satellites. The radar signal doesn't just come back from the surface, it also comes back from within the ice. This can affect the elevation estimate. Scientists need to know what the errors are in the measurements so that they can be confident when they say the Greenland Ice Sheet is expanding or contracting.
If you've had enough of all this ice, in January 2004 I had never been near any of these polar places and didn't know if I ever would be. I was a geophysicist who had been working with sandstones, landfill sites and hidden graves. That's enough for this page. Look through the site by clicking the links on the left and I hope you find some of this is interesting.