Leslie Field to participate in “Reflections on Arctic Ice” webinar

EE alumna Leslie Field (M.S. ’88/Ph.D. ’91, advisor: Richard White), who is the founder and CTO of the Arctic Ice Project and an adjunct lecturer at Sanford, will be a co-panelist in a webinar titled “Reflections on Arctic Ice: A special webinar with Dr. Peter Wadhams.”  Wadhams, a professor emeritus of Ocean Physics at Cambridge and the author of “A Farewell to Ice,”  has made more than 50 polar expeditions and recently appeared in the documentary “Ice on Fire” with Leonardo DiCaprio.   Field was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC).  The event will be on April 20th at 12 pm PST and is free, but registration is required.