About
Ken Mankoff is a PhD. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is studying the cryosphere, focusing on ice and ocean interactions nearby and underneath the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using observational fieldwork, remote sensing, and modeling.
In the past he has worked with climate models at the Columbia University NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth and Mars observing spacecraft at the University of Colorado Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and competed in the astronaut selection process.
He speaks publicly about climate change and has been an invited speaker on all seven continents. Audiences have included scientists at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, business leaders at the United Nations, and students in New York City.
He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
In more depth: Curriculum vitae
Contact: mankoff@gmail.com
