Dr Katharine Giles was tragically killed in a cycling accident on Monday 8 April. Here, her colleagues in UCL Earth Sciences pay tribute. Katharine had a bright future ahead of her. She graduated with a first class degree in Earth and Space Sciences from UCL, studied under Seymour for her PhD, and went on to forge her own career as a Research Fellow and most recently as a University Lecturer. After it had become clear that sea ice freeboard could be determined from satellite altimetry, Katharine performed some of the first ground-based experiments to show how the same observations could be accurately related to sea ice thickness. Read more
A cyclist killed in a crash in central London was a talented scientist doing research on global warming, her employer has said. Dr Katharine Giles, a lecturer at University College London (UCL), was on her way to work when she collided with a tipper truck in Victoria on Monday. Read more