Jonathan Bamber

Jonathan Louis Bamber is a British physicist known for his work on satellite remote sensing of the polar regions, and especially the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.

[1] In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union "for pioneering satellite remote sensing in glaciology and building bridges to other disciplines of the geoscience community.

[3] Rudi's testimony is held as part of the oral history of the Holocaust at the London Imperial War Museum, where Helen also recorded her experiences of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation.

[7] His work also looks at the different factors that influence contemporary sea level variations funded by the European Research Council[8] and the role of freshwater fluxes from Arctic land ice on ocean circulation.

A year later in 1992, while climbing in the Indian Himalaya, close to the Pakistan border, he was hit by a rockfall and sustained life-threatening injuries to his left leg.

[16] In the next year, he teamed up with the first international runner from the Everest marathon to compete in the eight-day TransAlpineRun, covering 280km and a 16,500 m ascent, starting in Germany and finishing in Italy.