A pioneering climate scientists was hit by a 聽while cycling to work Monday and pronounced dead at the scene. Katherine Giles, 35, Center for Polar Observation and Modeling at聽University College London (UCL).聽
Giles, who often chose to gather her own measurements rather than rely on satellite data, had studied sea ice thickness and the effect of winds on the newly exposed Arctic Ocean. She was being considered as a possible successor to Seymour Laxon, the center’s director, who聽聽after suffering a brain hemorrhage.聽
“We are all left with a sense of the outrageous unfairness with which some of our best colleagues have been taken from us,” Professor Philip Meredith, head of UCL’s earth sciences department, said.