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SCAR Executive Officer (2005 - 2007)
Dr. Marzena Kaczmarska joined the SCAR Office at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, UK, on June 1st 2005 taking over from Peter Clarkson.
Marzena has a PhD in Glaciology from the University of Silesia, in Katowice, Poland, awarded in 2001. For her thesis she studied the role of climate in relation to the calving of tidewater glaciers in the Arctic.
Prior to completing her PhD, Marzena obtained an MSc degree in the Management and Protection of the Natural Environment, also from the University of Silesia, for which she worked on analyzing methods for reconstructing mass balance equilibrium lines for Pleistocene glaciers. While at the University of Silesia, she taught courses on mapping methods, analysis of air photos, and an introduction to remote sensing.
In April 2000 she became a Research Assistant at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Troms¢, working on ice cores, on mass balance data from Svalbard glaciers, and on sea ice charts from the Barents Sea. From December 2001 to December 2003 she held a post-doctoral position at NPI, where she worked on the European Programme for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), which involved field work as part of the drilling team at Kohnen Station in Dronning Maud Land during December 2002 to February 2003 and December 2003 to February 2004. Subsequently she held a post-doctoral position at NPI within the Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition (NARE) programme, and also worked in the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project Office, where she helped to organize the first CliC International Science Conference in Beijing, China (April 2005). She has attended training programmes in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Poland and Svalbard. Her mother tongue is Polish and she speaks both English and Norwegian.
Marzena loves travelling, having visited several countries in different parts of the world (even having been a travel guide in Greece and the UK) and regards herself as cosmopolitan. She enjoys ski-mountaineering, cross-country skiing and hillwalking, and took part in the East Greenland Telemark Ski Expedition in May 2004.
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