Summary
Prof. Martin Siegert FRSE has been the Co-Director of the Grantham Institute since May 2014. Previously, he was Director of the Bristol Glaciology Center at Bristol University, where he is now a visiting Professor, and Head of the School of GeoSciences at Edinburgh University, where he now holds an Honorary Professorship.
He led the Lake Ellsworth Consortium - a UK-NERC funded programme that designed an experiment to explore a large subglacial lake beneath the ice of West Antarctica. He has undertaken three Antarctic field seasons, using geophysics to measure the subglacial landscape and to understand what it tells us about past changes in Antarctica and elsewhere.
In 2013 he was awarded the Martha T. Muse Prize for excellence in Antarctic science and policy, and in 2007 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Publications
Journals
Marschalek JW, Blard PH, Sarigulyan E, et al., 2024, Byrd Ice Core Debris Constrains the Sediment Provenance Signature of Central West Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:51, ISSN:0094-8276
Jamieson SSR, Ross N, Paxman GJG, et al., 2023, An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet., Nat Commun, Vol:14
Aitken ARA, Li L, Kulessa B, et al., 2023, Antarctic Sedimentary Basins and Their Influence on Ice-Sheet Dynamics, Reviews of Geophysics, Vol:61, ISSN:8755-1209
Siegert MJ, Bentley MJ, Atkinson A, et al., 2023, Antarctic extreme events, Frontiers in Environmental Science, Vol:11
Fremand AC, Fretwell P, Bodart JA, et al., 2023, Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data, Earth System Science Data, Vol:15, ISSN:1866-3508, Pages:2695-2710