Katharine Giles

**Katharine Anne Giles** (22 Maris 1978 - 8 Afrilu 2013) masaniyar kimiyyar yanayi ce ta Burtaniya. Binciken da ta yi la'akari da rufe kankara na teku, yaduwar teku da tsarin iska. Ta kasance mai sha'awar sadarwa ta kimiyya, kuma tun daga shekara ta 2015, Ƙungiyar Marubutan Kimiyya ta Burtaniya ta gudanar da lambar yabo ta sadarwa ta kimiyya don girmama ta.

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
Giles ta yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandare ta Hertfordshire da Essex, ta kammala GCE A Levels a cikin fasahar ƙira, lissafi da kimiyyar lissafi. An ba ta lambar yabo ta farko don digiri a fannin kimiyyar ƙasa da sararin samaniya a Kwalejin Jami'ar London .  Ta ba da gudummawa a Gidan Tarihin Kimiyya a lokacin karatunta na farko. Ta sami digirinta na PhD don bincike wanda Seymour Laxon ke kula da shi a shekara ta 2005.  Ta yi gwaje-gwaje na farko na ƙasa don nuna yadda za a saka idanu kan kaurin kankara ta teku ta amfani da ma'aunin tauraron dan adam. Wani altimeter yana sa ido kan raƙuman lantarki da aka nuna daga saman kankara.

## Ayyuka da bincike
Bayan kammala karatunta na PhD, Giles ta kasance a Kwalejin Jami'ar London a matsayin Mai bincike na postdoctoral, tana nazarin kaurin Arctic Ice. Giles ya nuna cewa ana iya amfani da kankara na teku don nuna yadda iskõki suka shafi sabon Tekun Arctic. An ba ta lambar yabo ta Majalisar Binciken Muhalli ta Halitta (NERC) don nazarin tsarin iska a cikin Arctic a Cibiyar Kula da Kula da Yanayi. Giles ya nuna cewa ruwa mai laushi a cikin Tekun Arctic ya kasance saboda karuwar iskõki a Beaufort Gyre. Don tabbatar da wannan, Giles ya yi amfani da Satellite na nesa na Turai da Envisat. Ta lissafa cewa teku a Yammacin Arctic ya tashi da 15 cm tsakanin 2002 da 2012, kuma ruwan teku ya karu da 8000 cubic kilomita. Ta hanyar amfani da Hukumar Kula da Sararin samaniya ta Turai CryoSat-2, Giles ya gano cewa kankara mai zurfi ya ɓace daga Greenland, Kanada Archipelago da Svalbard. Ta gano cewa tsakanin shekara ta 2003 zuwa 2012 yawan kankara na teku a cikin hunturu ya ragu da kashi 9%.   Binciken ya tabbatar da tsinkaya na Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modelling & Assimilation System (PIOMAS). &nbsp;

An kashe Giles yayin da yake tuka keke a shekarar 2013. An nada ta ne kawai a matsayin malami a Kwalejin Jami'ar London .  Peter Wadhams ya yi imanin cewa mutuwar na iya zama kisan kai, yayin da abokan aikin Giles Seymour Laxon da Tim Boyd duk suka mutu a cikin 'yan watanni na farko na 2013. A cikin 2016 an ba da shawarar sanya sunan sabon kwamitin bincike na muhalli (NERC) (RV) / Royal Research Ship (RRS) Katharine Giles .    (An sanya sunan jirgin a matsayin RRS Sir David Attenborough).

A ranar 3 ga Disamba 2020, Gwamnatin Yankin Antarctic na Burtaniya mai suna Giles Bay, tsakanin Weaver Point da Tula Point a arewacin ƙarshen Tsibirin Renaud, Tsibirin Biscoe na Katharine Giles . 

### Asusun Dr Katharine Giles
Ƙungiyar Marubutan Kimiyya ta Burtaniya (ABSW) tana ba da kyautar sadarwa ta kimiyya ta Dr Katharine Giles a kowace shekara don mafi kyawun labarin da masanin kimiyya ko injiniya ya rubuta. Kazalika da kyautar kuɗi, Asusun yana ba da horo na kafofin watsa labarai kyauta ga masu nasara. *Asusun Dr Katharine Giles* ne ke ba da kyautar. An ba da kyautar ga:

* 2016 Alex Bellos daga jaridar Guardian 
* 2017 Microbe Post, wanda Benjamin Thompson da Anand Jagatia suka rubuta daga Microbiology Society 
* 2018 Andy Brunning, Compound Interest 
* 2019 Kungiyar Dalibai (Arendse Lund, Cerys Bradley, Kyle Lee-Crossett, Josie Mills, Hannah Wills, Alexandra Bridarolli, Mark Kearney, Anna Pokorska, Hannah Page, Sarah Gibbs, Cerys Jones, Caz Thompson, da Jen Datiles) daga Kwalejin Jami'ar London 
* 2020 Anna Henschel a Glasgow Insight Into Science & Technology don labarin Zai iya zama masanin kimiyyar bayanai? 
* 2021 Farfesa Sheena Cruickshank, Jami'ar Manchester, don labarinta "Inflammation: the key factor that has explanating ga severe COVID" 
* 2022 Bonnie Waring, Kwalejin Imperial ta London, "Babu isasshen bishiyoyi a duniya don kawar da hayakin carbon na al'umma - kuma ba za a taba samun", The Conversation 

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