Warmth from below: where ice and ocean meet - Professor Yueng-Djern Lenn

As Arctic sea ice melts away, the ocean below is absorbing six times more solar radiation. This lecture will highlight the changing ocean processes melting ice and implications for our weather and climate.

About the speaker

Professor Yueng-Djern Lenn is a polar physical oceanographer who is interested in the way the oceans transport heat, salt and freshwater around the globe. The polar oceans host the largest air-sea fluxes of heat, and are also really important sources of freshwater for the global ocean circulation. These air-sea heat and freshwater fluxes are important because they impact weather and climate.

Professor Lenn's research has focused on oceanic processes responsible for fluxing deep heat to the icy surface and beyond. She admits to have "succumbed to the allure of the remote icy wildness of the poles - a long way from home for a child of the tropics".

In addition, Professor Lenn is an enthusiastic science communicator who aspires to widen participation in STEM, particularly from under-represented groups. And finally, she has said she is, in her own words, "passable at parenting, bad at housework and love being on, in and underwater".