ABOUT

Dr. Sarah Das is a polar and climate scientist, educator, and explorer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.  Her research interests include the reconstruction of past climate from ice-cores; understanding and measuring polar ice sheet mass balance and ice dynamics; exploring the interaction between coupled cryosphere-atmosphere-ocean-biogeochemical systems; and using science-based solutions to improve coastal resilience. Over her career she has led over 20 scientific expeditions to the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

She is very active in training the “next generation” of polar and climate scientists, regularly teaching and mentoring post-docs and Ph.D students as a faculty member of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, as well as working closely with K-12 teachers and students.

She is also committed to sharing the importance of climate science and the excitement of scientific discovery with policy makers and the public. She serves on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’s Climate Science Advisory Panel, is part of the American Geophysical Union’s Congressional Science Partners Program, and is an ambassador with the national non-partisan organization Science Moms.  Dr. Das also recently completed two terms as an invited member of the Polar Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, served on the National Research Council’s Committee for Future Science Opportunities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, and was an expert in the AAAS ‘What We Know’ Climate Change project.

Dr. Das is frequently quoted in media outlets including AP News, CNBC, New York Times, BBC, and the Boston Globe. She has also been featured on podcasts such as Science Vs, Science Friday, Quirks and Quarks, and We Don't Have Time, and has been a featured scientist at the Woods Hole Film Festival, at Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill, on NPR, NOVA, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the MIT Museum, and in the popular science book “Science On Ice,” among many other outlets.

 

SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

Dr. Das is an experienced, engaging, inspiring and impactful public speaker on topics including polar (Arctic & Antarctic) science, climate science, climate change impacts, sea level rise and coastal resilience. Get in touch if your event or organization may be interested!