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Alun Hubbard serves as the UArctic Chair in Cryospheric Science and Director of the Thule Institute at the University of Oulu, Finland, while holding a professorship at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. With over three decades of experience, he is an applied glaciologist and geophysicist specializing in glacier and ice sheet responses to atmospheric, oceanic, and geological forces, with critical implications for sea-level rise and coastal flooding.
His research spans the Arctic (Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard), Patagonia, Antarctica, Asia, and New Zealand. Hubbard employs innovative field-data collection methods—gained during 70+ cumulative months on the Greenland ice sheet—to advance numerical modeling and process understanding of glacial systems' environmental impacts, landscape evolution, and carbon-cycle interactions. He conducts expeditions via his ice-strengthened sailboat and helicopter logistics non-profit.
A prominent science communicator, Hubbard has contributed to award-winning documentaries including BBC's Frozen Planet series, Netflix's Our Planet, and National Geographic's Chasing Ice. The provided text mentions no scientific awards, grants, or student advisees, though recent activities include firn core collection from Lomonosovfonna ice cap (April 2025) and research on atmospheric rivers restoring Greenland's ice sheet (March 2025).
