UCL scientists nominated as names for polar research ship 6 April 2016 Dr Katharine Giles and Professor Seymour Laxon, both of UCL Earth Sciences, have been proposed as names for a new polar research ship in a public competition run by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which closes on 16 April. The scientists, who worked at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at UCL, tragically died within months of each other in 2013. Professor Laxon, a UCL Physics & Astronomy graduate was Director of the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at the time of his death in January 2013. His scientific breakthrough was to distinguish the ice surface from the water surface in satellite radar altimeter measurements of ice-covered oceans. This led to the first detailed map of the A
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