We are pleased to invite you to an enjoyable and informative afternoon seminar with 3 visiting scholars from Cambridge University, all currently with Professor II-positions at the department of Technology and Safety.
The seminar is organized as a series of guest lectures followed by Q&A-sessions. Coffee/tea, biscuits and other snacks will be served. You are welcome to attend the lectures you find to be of interest, and no registration is required.
PROGRAMME
13.15 – 14.00: Presentation by Dr. John Ash: "The Arctic Guns of August" - conflict de-escalation in the Arctic
Discussions
14.00 – 14.15: Break with tea/coffee and biscuits/snacks
14.15 – 15.00: Presentation by Dr. Bryan Lintott: 'Antarctica and Apollo: Extreme Heritage'
Discussions
15.00 – 15.15: Break with tea/coffee and biscuits/snacks
15.15 – 16.00: Presentation by Dr. Gareth Rees: Remote Sensing of the Polar Regions
Discussions
16.00-17.00: Mingling and discussions
Brief introduction of the lecturers:
Dr. John Ash
He is a former Royal Air Force Fighter Control officer. He spent the latter part of his service career in the Royal Navy, where as an oceanographer and submariner he was involved in the collection of data in the Arctic Ocean to support the study of thinning in the polar ice pack. Selected to lead a team of Russian researchers examining radionuclide pollution in the Northern Seas, he was later assigned to undertake the initial design work for the Navy Department’s environmental management system. Dr Ash has held a British Safety Council Fellowship at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge, where the focus of his research was on the management of dynamic risk problems in operational environments. An Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute, he also holds a professional qualification in environmental risk management
Dr. Bryan Lintott
His research has three foci: the governance, management conservation and utility of heritage in the Arctic and Antarctic, and beyond; the history of polar science and technology; and Antarctic history and culture. His current polar history project is on airborne radio-echo sounding from the mid-1960s to early-1980s.
Museum exhibitions that he has curated range from ‘The World in a Day: the 1953 Air Race from London to Christchurch’ to ‘Amundsen’ – the first exhibition on Roald Amundsen in the United Kingdom. With Dr John Ash he co-curated ‘Frozen Worlds: From the Polar Regions to the icy moons of Jupiter’.
The academic endeavors of Lintott interface with heritage, diplomatically and professionally, through the ICOMOS International Polar Heritage Committee (IPHC) of which he is the Secretary-General, and convener of the group developing Antarctic Archaeology Guidelines. The use of satellite, plane, UAV and ground-based imagery for monitoring and managing heritage sites at risk in the polar region is a topic of particular interest.
Dr. Gareth Rees
Is a physicist who has been head of the Polar Landscape and Remote Sensing Group at SPRI since 1985, where he has developed and applied new spaceborne and airborne technology, and image processing methods, to the study of polar environments. Most recently, these methods have been focused on the dynamics of forest and tundra vegetation, especially in Russia.