Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski at Thinking Digital 2012
Born 1 November 1978[1]
Manchester, England[2]
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Toronto
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography (University of Rhode Island)[3][4]
University of Southampton
University College London
Alma mater Churchill College, Cambridge
Thesis Ignition of HMX and RDX (2006)
Known for Oceanography
Television presenter
Website
www.helenczerski.net

Helen Czerski (born 1 November 1978) is a physicist and oceanographer. She is currently a Research Fellow in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London[5][6][7] She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton.[8]

Helen Czerski presenting a slide of herself drawing a coccolithophore with chalk at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival

Education

Czerski was brought up in Altrincham, near Manchester and educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls.[9] She is of Polish ancestry. She graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge with degrees Master of Arts and Master of Science in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a PhD[10] in experimental explosives physics, particularly Research Department Explosive (RDX).[2]

Broadcasting

Czerski is a regular science presenter for the BBC. Her programmes have included these:

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey, a three-part series on BBC Two.[11] (March 2012), co-presented with Kate Humble.

Operation Iceberg, a two-part series on BBC Two (October 2012) [12]

The Transit of Venus, BBC Two (June 2012) Horizon[13]

Stargazing Challenges, (BBC Two)

Dara Ó Briain's Science Club, (BBC Two)

The Secret Life of the Sun, BBC Two (July 2013) [14]

Pop! The Science of Bubbles, BBC Four, April 2013.[15]

The £10 Million Challenge, a Horizon to launch the Longitude Prize 2014[16]

What's Wrong with Our Weather?, July 2014, Horizon, co-presented with meteorologist John Hammond, which examined the possible causes of Britain's recent extreme weather and what connects all the recent extreme winters.[17]

Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals, a current three-part series BBC Two [18]

She has also appeared on the Museum of Curiosity (BBC Radio 4).

Czerski has a regular column in BBC Focus magazine and was shortlisted in for columnist of the year at the 2014 PPA Awards.[19]

Research

Czerski's research[20] focuses on ocean bubbles, bubble acoustics, air-sea gas transfer and ocean bubble optics.[8][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]

References

  1. ↑ "KM Cruise Participants". UC Santa Barbara Department of Geography. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Helen Czerski biography". Helenczerski.net. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "News - University of Rhode Island". Uri.edu. 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  4. ↑ "Helen Czerski". Helen Czerski. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  5. ↑ Clayton, Jeremy. "Government seeks your views about how to spend £6bn on science | Jeremy Clayton | Science". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  6. ↑ "Iris View Profile". Iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  7. ↑ Chambers, Chris (2014-06-10). "Physics envy: Do ‘hard’ sciences hold the solution to the replication crisis in psychology? | Chris Chambers | Science". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Dr Helen Czerski :: University of Southampton". Southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  9. ↑ Bowen, Rick (8 March 2012). "Altrincham raised scientist fronting major BBC series". Messenger Newspapers.
  10. ↑ Czerski, Helen (2006). Ignition of HMX and RDX (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  11. ↑ "BBC Two -Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey, Episode 1". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
  12. ↑ "BBC Two - Operation Iceberg". BBC.
  13. ↑ "BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, The Transit of Venus". BBC.
  14. ↑ "BBC Two - The Secret Life of the Sun". BBC.
  15. ↑ "TV work". Helen Czerski. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  16. ↑ "BBC Two - Horizon, The 拢10 Million Challenge". BBC.
  17. ↑ "BBC Two -Horizon: What's Wrong with Our Weather?". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  18. ↑ "BBC - New BBC Two NHU series explores super senses of animal world in Beyond Human - Media centre". bbc.co.uk.
  19. ↑ "PPA Awards 2014". Professional Publishers Association. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  20. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  21. ↑ Vagle, S.; Gemmrich, J.; Czerski, H. (2012). "Reduced upper ocean turbulence and changes to bubble size distributions during large downward heat flux events". Journal of Geophysical Research 117. doi:10.1029/2011JC007308.
  22. ↑ Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S.; Sullivan, J.; Freeman, S.; Czerski, H.; You, Y.; Bi, L.; Kattawar, G. (2012). "The optical volume scattering function in a surf zone inverted to derive sediment and bubble particle subpopulations". Journal of Geophysical Research 117. doi:10.1029/2011JC007347.
  23. ↑ Czerski, H. (2012). "An Inversion of Acoustical Attenuation Measurements to Deduce Bubble Populations". Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 29 (8): 1139–1148. Bibcode:2012JAtOT..29.1139C. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00170.1.
  24. ↑ Czerski, H.; Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S. (2011). "Resolving size distributions of bubbles with radii less than 30μm with optical and acoustical methods". Journal of Geophysical Research 116. doi:10.1029/2011JC007177.
  25. ↑ Czerski, H.; Vagle, S.; Farmer, D. M.; Hall-Patch, N. (2011). "Improvements to the methods used to measure bubble attenuation using an underwater acoustical resonator". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 130 (5): 3421–3430. doi:10.1121/1.3569723. PMID 22088016.
  26. ↑ Czerski, H. (2011). "A candidate mechanism for exciting sound during bubble coalescence". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129 (3): EL83–EL88. doi:10.1121/1.3553175. PMID 21428472.
  27. ↑ Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2011). "The effect of coupling on bubble fragmentation acoustics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 129 (1): 74–84. doi:10.1121/1.3514416. PMID 21302989.
  28. ↑ Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2010). "Contributions to the acoustic excitation of bubbles released from a nozzle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128 (5): 2625–2634. doi:10.1121/1.3484087. PMID 21110560.
  29. ↑ Deane, G. B.; Czerski, H. (2008). "A mechanism stimulating sound production from air bubbles released from a nozzle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123 (6): EL126–EL132. doi:10.1121/1.2908198. PMID 18537298.
  30. ↑ Czerski, H.; Brown, L. M. (2008). "Application of the slip circle construction to a spherical indenter". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41 (7): 074001. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/7/074001.
  31. ↑ Czerski, H.; Proud, W. G. (2007). "Relationship between the morphology of granular cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine and its shock sensitivity". Journal of Applied Physics 102 (11): 113515. Bibcode:2007JAP...102k3515C. doi:10.1063/1.2818106.
  32. ↑ Czerski, H.; Greenaway, M. W.; Proud, W. G.; Field, J. E. (2004). "Β-δ phase transition during dropweight impact on cyclotetramethylene-tetranitroamine". Journal of Applied Physics 96 (8): 4131. Bibcode:2004JAP....96.4131C. doi:10.1063/1.1790067.

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