Miriam Jackson

Dr. Miriam Jackson is a glaciologist and climate scientist with wide experience from High Mountain Asia, the Arctic and the Antarctic.  She has an MSc from the Byrd Polar Centre at Ohio State University, and a PhD from California Institute of Technology, during which she completed four field campaigns in Antarctica. She has worked extensively in the Arctic including Norway, Greenland, Svalbard and Iceland, and was responsible for running the unique Svartisen Subglacial Laboratory for over 20 years. She was the Norwegian lead for several EU projects on glacial hazards and glacier monitoring. In the Hindu Kush Himalaya, she worked with the Bhutanese government to establish its first glacier mass balance programme, led the joint Norway-India research project INDICE on climate change and hydrology and spent several years at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), where she led the cryosphere work including the establishment of permafrost measurements in Humla, western Nepal. 

Miriam has also worked on the societal implications of changes in the cryosphere, working together with both policymakers and local communities. She is an IPCC lead author in the High Mountain Areas chapter in the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and editor/lead author for the “Water, ice, society, and ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HiWISE)” report.

Miriam is the Eurasia and Nordic director at ICCI (International Cryosphere Climate Initiative), research scientist at the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) and a member of the scientific steering group for CliC (Climate and Cryosphere, a World Climate Research Programme core project).