Professor David Vaughan, who has died aged 60 from stomach cancer, was a world-leading expert on how polar ice sheets are responding to climate change. Former Director of Science at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), David was the UK lead for the International Thwaites Glacier Programme and served as co-ordinating lead author in two rounds of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports.
Read an extended tribute to David (via BAS)
Listen to BBC Radio 4's Last Word featuring a tribute to David
Professor David Vaughan OBE (1962-2023). Image credit: BAS
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