Nancy Bertler

Nancy specialises in the recovery, analysis and interpretation of ice cores from coastal Antarctica with an emphasis to understand and quantify Antarctica’s response to, and its ability to force, global climate change. She is the leader of the National Ice Core Research Programme and manages the New Zealand Ice Core Research Facility. Nancy has led 13 field campaigns in Antarctica and is the Chief Scientist of the 9-nation Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) project which focuses on the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a warming world. Nancy is jointly appointed by GNS Science and Victoria University of Wellington and since 2018, serves as the inaugural Antarctic Science Platform Director. The platform, funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and hosted by Antarctica New Zealand, is mandated to understand Antarctica’s impact on the global earth system and how this might change in a +2degC (Paris Agreement) world.