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Paula Suchantke
- Scholar
- Germany
- 2024 PhD Polar Studies
- Newnham College
Paula Suchantke
- Scholar
- Germany
- 2024 PhD Polar Studies
- Newnham College
During my undergraduate degree in Geography at Cambridge I became fascinated with glaciology, leading me to pursue an MPhil degree in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. My research interests have gradually become focussed on Antarctic ice shelves – the floating extensions of outlet glaciers that restrain the discharge of glacial ice into the ocean. Under increasing atmospheric temperatures vast meltwater systems are likely to become more prevalent across ice shelves in Antarctica, which poses a threat to their stability as water provides a powerful mechanism of driving fractures through the ice. In my doctoral research, I will continue to focus on the stability of ice shelves in Antarctica. Using remote sensing and machine learning techniques I will set out to produce a continent-wide, three-dimensional dataset of meltwater storage and potential flow pathways on Antarctic ice shelves. In this way, I endeavour to further our understanding of the sensitivity of the Antarctic ice sheet to anthropogenic climate change and thereby hope to contribute to a growing body of scientific literature that informs policymaking in a time of environmental crisis.
Previous Education
University of Cambridge Polar Studies 2024
University of Cambridge Geography 2022
Elena Tiedens
- Deferred
- United States
- 2025 MPhil Polar Studies
- Clare College
Elena Tiedens
- Deferred
- United States
- 2025 MPhil Polar Studies
- Clare College
As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I studied History with a concentration in environmental history. Throughout my time at UChicago, I became interested in the Arctic as a region that has seen the most extreme warming from anthropogenic climate change, and increasing mineral and hydrocarbon extraction. At Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute, I will continue my study of the Arctic with a specific concentration on the history of infrastructure in the Russian Arctic. I seek to explore how a wide variety of infrastructures were repurposed at the fall of the Soviet Union to build the modern Russian Arctic – and in turn, shaped the dynamics of the global Arctic in the age of climate change. I hope my work will contribute to conversations about the future of infrastructure in a climate-changed world and the dynamics of energy and extraction in the global Arctic. I am looking forward to learning from my professors and fellow students at the Scott Polar Research Institute who will enhance my understanding of the region, and its histories and cultures. I am also excited to join the Gates Cambridge community where I will be surrounded by people with boundless intellectual curiosity and a dedication to helping the world.
Previous Education
University of Chicago History
