Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Natalya Gomez and research team work on understanding the physics of ice sheets, oceans, the solid Earth and climate change. Her talk focusses on understanding how the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica respond to climate change and cause global sea levels to rise and impact coastal areas around the world. She highlights the substantial amounts of ice loss and sea level rise that stand to be avoided by quickly transitioning away from fossil fuel burning, the need to prepare for changes to come in coastal areas, and the value of hope, connection and action to support resilience in the face of future climate change and move towards a more sustainable future.

About Natalya Gomez

Natalya Gomez is a climate scientist, geophysicist and Associate Professor at McGill University and a Canada Research Chair in Ice Sheet – Sea Level Interactions. Her scientific research focuses on understanding how the polar ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and global sea levels respond to climate change, and the impacts on coastal environments and populations. She is passionate about education and outreach to communicate about climate change in hopeful and actionable ways. She organizes international, interdisciplinary summer schools on climate for graduate students and is on the development and teaching team for McGill’s campus-wide course FSCI198 Climate Crisis and Climate Action