DR HANNAH Bailey, an alumna from Aberystwyth University’s Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, has received a Lloyds of London Fulbright Award on one of the most prestigious and selective scholarship programmes operating worldwide.

Hannah undertook her bachelor and master degrees at Aberystwyth and was subsequently awarded a NERC doctoral training scholarship and completed her PhD at Newcastle University.

She is now a postdoctoral scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany.

As a Fulbright Scholar Hannah will conduct research that aims to quantify and evaluate the recent extraordinary changes to Alaska’s hydrological cycle and mountain glaciers.

She will be based at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and will spend time as a visiting researcher at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Hannah said: “Climate trends in Alaska this year are outside the range of anything that’s been seen there since records began around 90 years ago.

“Along with my colleagues at UAA and Dartmouth College, this award will enable us to try and understand how and why these climate extremes are occurring in Alaska, and to place them in the context of long-term change and natural variability."

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