Award winning RISeR PhD student, Oliver Pollard

Oliver Pollard is a PhD student funded by the RISeR project, based in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and has been developing and presenting award-winning science. Oliver’s PhD focuses on developing new ice sheet models for the Eurasian ice sheet, and understanding the solid Earth response to these ice load changes.  In 2021, already showing great promise, Oliver was awarded School of Earth and Environment’s Earth System Science Institute (ESSI) Early Career Scientist of the Year.

At the 2022 European Geophysical Union meeting, Oliver was awarded the Geodesy Division Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award for his poster/PICO entitled: “Investigating the Sensitivity of North Sea Glacial Isostatic Adjustment during the Last Interglacial to the Penultimate Deglaciation of Global Ice Sheets”.

In the summer of 2022 Oliver then went on to be awarded the Best Student Presentation Prize at the PALSEA workshop, hosted with NTU Singapore, for his talk “Reconstructing GIA in the North Sea Region during the Last Interglacial to better constrain rates of ice-sheet melt”.

All this work has culminated in Oliver’s first paper from his PhD (pre-print of his work available here) being awarded the 2023 ESSI Best Student Paper award.  Well done Oliver!