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John Moore, Research Professor at University of Lapland, Finland & Chief Scientist GCESS, Beijing Normal University. Member Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences. Guest professor, Polar Research Institute of China. Awarded China Friendship medal 2014. China "Overseas high level talents" awardee 2010. Kinnvika. Member of World Meteorological Organization (WMO) advisory panel on Geoengineering. Steering committee member World Climate Research Program (WCRP), Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP). Finnish representative on the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Glaciology Network. Authored 200 SCI articles ~16000 citations, H-index=57, 18 articles published in PNAS & the "Nature" group.
See also: http://kaares.ulapland.fi/home/hkunta/jmoore/johnpage.htm

Aslak Grinsted is an Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Part of the ice modelling group at the section for Physics of Ice, Climate, and Earth. Cryospheric scientist at heart. PhD from university of Oulu/University of Lapland, Finland. Has published on geoengineering, sea level, and ice flow. Eight field seasons on the Greenland ice sheet (NorthGRIP, NEEM, and EastGRIP). No.papers: 62; H-index: 32.

Ilona Mettiäinen has been Visiting Arctic Fellow at Dartmouth College and an NSF Arctic-FROST Early Career Fellow. She holds a M.Sc. and is PhD Candidate at Universities of Tampere and Lapland. Mettiäinen worked at the Arctic Centre from 2010, and is currently a Visiting Researcher there and Researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland. Her PhD concerns strategic, proactive responses to climate change in the Arctic. Recent projects include co-designing a climate service for winter tourism industry in Northern Finland (Blue-Action - H2020; case study leader); and co-production of knowledge with Arctic communities on solar geoengineering (with Cornell University 2016-2017), also expertise on science communication including arts-based visualization of social science research.

Timo Koivurova is a research professor at the Arctic Centre (University of Lapland) and has a multidisciplinary specialisation in Arctic law and governance but has also conducted broader research on international and European law, for instance on climate law. He has been involved as an expert in several international processes globally and in the Arctic region.

Nicolas Gunslay is Chief Executive Producer of the Arktikum Science Centre since 2005, and Vice-Director of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland since 2019.

Dr. Michael Wolovick has been an ice flow modelling postdoc at Princeton and Beijing Normal University, with articles in Nature and Science, now employed at AWI, Bremerhavn, Germany.

Engineering advice will be taken from a loose committee composed of Prof. Christian Schoof, perhaps the world-leading theoretical glacier dynamicist;
Dr. Bowie Keefer an independent ocean engineer and mechanical engineering technology innovator (adjunct at the University of British Columbia);
Prof. Brian Fleck University of Alberta;
Prof. David Keith of Applied Physics and Public Policy (Harvard).

Liyun Zhao is an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, China. She has published on ice dynamic modelling, surface mass balance estimation on regions of ice sheets and Tibetan glaciers, and geoengineering impact on glaciers.