The NSF Office of Polar Programs welcomes Dr. Bob Hawley as a new program officer (IPA) for Arctic System Sciences
Hawley started working on ice sheets in 1995, as an undergraduate at the University of Washington, through the NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program. After completing his B.S. he continued in glaciological research by participating in the inaugural winter-over at Summit camp, Greenland, during the 1997-1998 boreal winter. Hawley earned a PhD in geophysics from the University of Washington in 2005. Following his PhD, he spent 3 years in Cambridge, England, as a post-doc at the Scott Polar Research Institute, studying radar altimetry.
In 2008, Hawley joined the faculty in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College where he continues to research, teach, and mentor excellent students and faculty colleagues. He has served as U.S. representative to the International Arctic Sciences Committee (IASC) Cryosphere Working Group, President of the Cryosphere Science section of the American Geophysical Union, and as a member of the Science Coordination Office for Summit Station. Hawley's research interests include the physics of firn densification, the mass balance of large ice sheets, the interpretation of ice core records, and remote sensing. He has worked primarily in East and West Antarctica and Greenland and teaches an annual field course on Athabasca Glacier in Alberta, Canada.