Martian meltdown
Channel: Richard Holliman
Date: 2017-12-18

In this short video, Frances discusses her research into glaciers on the planet Mars and what they can tell us about water on the Red Planet.

Frances is conducting her research in the School of Physical Sciences at the Open University, UK, under a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) PhD studentship.

This research is published open access in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017JE005434/full 

You can find out more about Frances’ research at: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/fegb2 

The video was produced as part of an ‘Engaging Research: developing productive partnerships with end-users’ training programme (http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/per/?page...).

The training team included: Gerard Giorgi-Coll, Victoria Burton (Natural History Museums), and Janet Sumner, Kerry Reid, Clare Warren and Richard Holliman (the latter all based at the Open University in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences; http://www.open.ac.uk/science/environment-earth-ecosystems).

Funded by a NERC Innovation Award, the training was coordinated through the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) Doctoral Training Programme: http://www.centa.org.uk.’