[2] In 2022, an ice-covered foreland in West Antarctica was named Nowicki-foreland in recognition of Nowicki's role in increasing understanding of sea level rise.
[2] Following a BSc in Geophysics at the University of Edinburgh, Nowicki completed an MSc in Remote Sensing and Image Processing, where her Master's thesis was supervised by Chris Merchant.
Her PhD thesis, entitled 'Modelling the transition zone of marine ice sheets' was completed in the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL), under the supervision of Duncan Wingham.
[5][6] Nowicki was Deputy Chief for the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory and co-leader of the steering committee for the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6.
[2] In 2022, an ice-covered foreland in West Antarctica was named Nowicki-foreland in recognition of Nowicki's role in increasing understanding of sea level rise.