Dr Inga Smith
Senior Lecturer
physics
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
My research focus is ice-ocean interactions, particularly using high precision and high accuracy stable isotope and supercooling measurements to investigate critical thresholds for sea ice survival under warmer and higher CO2 conditions. I completed a University of Otago PhD on platelet ice formation in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica and followed this with two years as a postdoc at the University of East Anglia, researching the physical oceanography of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Since returning to New Zealand, I also lead a research team investigating greenhouse gas emissions from international transport, and been involved with research into energy use in buildings. I collaborate widely with modellers, observationalists, and remote sensing researchers from with Otago, New Zealand universities (especially the University of Canterbury and Victoria University of Wellington) and CRIs (NIWA and Callaghan Innovation), and internationally (particularly the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Washington). Potential MSc or PhD students are welcome to contact me about potential ice, oceans, or energy-related projects.
Research Interest
Sea ice formation processes: Arctic and Antarctic intercomparisons â— Antarctic sea ice melting processes â— Supercooling measurement and modelling
Publications
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Pauling, A. G., Bitz, C. M., Smith, I. J., & Langhorne, P. J. (2016). The response of the Southern Ocean and Antarctic sea ice to fresh water from ice shelves in an earth system model. Journal of Climate, 29, 1655-1672. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0501.1
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Smith, I. J., Eicken, H., Mahoney, A. R., Van Hale, R., Gough, A. J., Fukamachi, Y., & Jones, J. (2016). Surface water mass composition changes captured by cores of Arctic land-fast sea ice. Continental Shelf Research, 118, 154-164. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2016.02.008
