Living in the High Arctic, researcher didn't know COVID's scope
Tuesday, April 21, 2020 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
Dr. Vishnu Nandan is a radar remote sensing expert on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, and a post-doctoral researcher at the UM Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS). He has only recently returned from the High Arctic where he was part of a team of researchers on the German research icebreaker R/V Polarstern as part of the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) International Arctic Drift study. Representing Canada, he was the only Indian national among 64 scientists from 12 different countries, and was interviewed for a feature in the scientific journal Nature India.