Christian Haas

Alberta Ingenuity Scholar since January 2008

Interpreting the effects of climate change on sea ice in the Arctic, Antarctic and in Alberta.

Christian Haas is a sea ice geophysicist who is exploring the retreat of sea and its effects on the biosphere. To better understand these changes, Haas and his team are using in-situ measurements and airborne and satellite remote sensing and modeling. Haas and his research group are one of only two groups in the world capable of capturing these measurements; and as an Ingenuity Scholar he will undertake biennial thickness surveys over the Arctic Ocean between Ellesmere Island and the North Pole. These forays will allow the group to observe the ice through its annual of phases of thinning, throughout the summer, and the thickening throughout the winter, and the changes occurring in between.

His team will also join the first airship crossing of the Arctic Ocean, organized by a French explorer Jean-Louis Etienne, and sponsored by the French oil company Total, in 2008. The expedition will end in Inuvik and may include Edmonton on its flight.

For more information on Christian's work, please visit Ingenuity Inside.