Josephine Anselin
Role:
- Secretary, 2021-2022
- Website Officer. 2020-2021
Contacts :
- Email: Josephine.anselin@polarnetwork.org; secretary@polarnetwork.org
- Twitter: @joanselinocean
Background :
I am in awe of the natural world, and with this passion comes a desire to help protect our planet’s last wild places. That is why I am currently pursuing a PhD at the British Antarctic Survey, with the goal of becoming a polar research scientist. My PhD project focuses on developing techniques to more accurately represent ocean-induced melting beneath Antarctic ice shelves in large-scale climate models.
My path into research hasn’t been linear. In 2012 I graduated from the University of Oxford with a Masters in Engineering Science and worked as an engineer in the Energy Industry for four years. I then moved into Digital Marketing and started my own consulting company in the Outdoor Adventure Industry. These were all brilliant experiences but I really missed science, so in 2020 I decided to go back to university and to complete an MSc in Physical Oceanography at Bangor University in North Wales. It is during that time that I developed a fascination for the polar regions.
In my free time, I love spending as much time as possible outside, up in the hills or out in the ocean.