Helen Czerski

Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski at Thinking Digital 2012
Born	1 November 1978[1] Manchester, England[2]
Institutions	University of Cambridge University of Toronto Los Alamos National Laboratory Scripps Institution of Oceanography Graduate School of Oceanography (University of Rhode Island)[3][4] University of Southampton University College London
Alma mater	Churchill College, Cambridge
Thesis	Ignition of HMX and RDX (2006)
Known for	Oceanography Television presenter
Website www.helenczerski.net

Helen Czerski (born 1 November 1978) is a physicist and oceanographer. She is currently a Research Fellow in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London.^[5][6][7] She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton.^[8]

Helen Czerski presenting a slide of herself drawing a coccolithophore with chalk at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival

Education

Czerski was brought up in Altrincham, near Manchester and educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls.^[9] She is of Polish ancestry. She graduated from Churchill College, Cambridge with degrees Master of Arts and Master of Science in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a PhD^[10] in experimental explosives physics, particularly Research Department Explosive (RDX).^[2]

Broadcasting

Czerski is a regular science presenter for the BBC. Her programmes have included:

• Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey, a three-part series on BBC Two, March 2012, co-presented with Kate Humble.^[11]
• Operation Iceberg, a two-part series on BBC Two, October 2012.^[12]
• The Transit of Venus, BBC Two, June 2012, Horizon.^[13]
• Stargazing Challenges, BBC Two.
• Dara Ó Briain's Science Club, BBC Two.
• The Secret Life of the Sun, BBC Two, July 2013.^[14]
• Pop! The Science of Bubbles, BBC Four, April 2013.^[15]
• The £10 Million Challenge, a Horizon which launched the Longitude Prize 2014.^[16]
• What's Wrong with Our Weather?, July 2014, Horizon, co-presented with meteorologist John Hammond, which examined the possible causes of Britain's recent extreme weather and what connects all the recent extreme winters.^[17]
• Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals, a three-part series for BBC Two.^[18]
• Colour: The Spectrum Of Science, a three-part series for BBC Four on the 15 colours that tell the story of the Earth, life and scientific discovery.^[19]

She has also appeared on the Museum of Curiosity (BBC Radio 4).

Czerski has a regular column in BBC Focus magazine and was shortlisted in for columnist of the year at the 2014 PPA Awards.^[20]

Research

Czerski's research^[21] focuses on ocean bubbles, bubble acoustics, air-sea gas transfer and ocean bubble optics.^{[8][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}

References

1. "KM Cruise Participants". UC Santa Barbara Department of Geography. Retrieved 16 December 2013.
2. "Helen Czerski biography". Helenczerski.net. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
3. "News - University of Rhode Island". Uri.edu. 2010-01-21. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
4. "Helen Czerski". Helen Czerski. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
5. Clayton, Jeremy. "Government seeks your views about how to spend £6bn on science | Jeremy Clayton | Science". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
6. "Iris View Profile". Iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
7. Chambers, Chris (2014-06-10). "Physics envy: Do 'hard' sciences hold the solution to the replication crisis in psychology? | Chris Chambers | Science". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
8. "Dr Helen Czerski :: University of Southampton". Southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
9. Bowen, Rick (8 March 2012). "Altrincham raised scientist fronting major BBC series". Messenger Newspapers.
10. Czerski, Helen (2006). Ignition of HMX and RDX (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
11. "BBC Two -Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey, Episode 1". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 4 March 2012.
12. "BBC Two - Operation Iceberg". BBC.
13. "BBC Two - Horizon, 2011-2012, The Transit of Venus". BBC.
14. "BBC Two - The Secret Life of the Sun". BBC.
15. "TV work". Helen Czerski. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
16. "BBC Two - Horizon, The 拢10 Million Challenge". BBC.
17. "BBC Two -Horizon: What's Wrong with Our Weather?". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
18. "BBC - New BBC Two NHU series explores super senses of animal world in Beyond Human - Media centre". bbc.co.uk.
19. "BBC -". bbc.co.uk.
20. "PPA Awards 2014". Professional Publishers Association. 10 July 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
21. List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
22. Vagle, S.; Gemmrich, J.; Czerski, H. (2012). "Reduced upper ocean turbulence and changes to bubble size distributions during large downward heat flux events". Journal of Geophysical Research. 117. doi:10.1029/2011JC007308.
23. Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S.; Sullivan, J.; Freeman, S.; Czerski, H.; You, Y.; Bi, L.; Kattawar, G. (2012). "The optical volume scattering function in a surf zone inverted to derive sediment and bubble particle subpopulations". Journal of Geophysical Research. 117. doi:10.1029/2011JC007347.
24. Czerski, H. (2012). "An Inversion of Acoustical Attenuation Measurements to Deduce Bubble Populations". Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 29 (8): 1139–1148. Bibcode:2012JAtOT..29.1139C. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00170.1.
25. Czerski, H.; Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S. (2011). "Resolving size distributions of bubbles with radii less than 30μm with optical and acoustical methods". Journal of Geophysical Research. 116. doi:10.1029/2011JC007177.
26. Czerski, H.; Vagle, S.; Farmer, D. M.; Hall-Patch, N. (2011). "Improvements to the methods used to measure bubble attenuation using an underwater acoustical resonator". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130 (5): 3421–3430. doi:10.1121/1.3569723. PMID 22088016.
27. Czerski, H. (2011). "A candidate mechanism for exciting sound during bubble coalescence". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129 (3): EL83–EL88. doi:10.1121/1.3553175. PMID 21428472.
28. Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2011). "The effect of coupling on bubble fragmentation acoustics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129 (1): 74–84. doi:10.1121/1.3514416. PMID 21302989.
29. Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2010). "Contributions to the acoustic excitation of bubbles released from a nozzle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128 (5): 2625–2634. doi:10.1121/1.3484087. PMID 21110560.
30. Deane, G. B.; Czerski, H. (2008). "A mechanism stimulating sound production from air bubbles released from a nozzle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123 (6): EL126–EL132. doi:10.1121/1.2908198. PMID 18537298.
31. Czerski, H.; Brown, L. M. (2008). "Application of the slip circle construction to a spherical indenter". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 41 (7): 074001. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/7/074001.
32. Czerski, H.; Proud, W. G. (2007). "Relationship between the morphology of granular cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine and its shock sensitivity". Journal of Applied Physics. 102 (11): 113515. Bibcode:2007JAP...102k3515C. doi:10.1063/1.2818106.
33. Czerski, H.; Greenaway, M. W.; Proud, W. G.; Field, J. E. (2004). "Β-δ phase transition during dropweight impact on cyclotetramethylene-tetranitroamine". Journal of Applied Physics. 96 (8): 4131. Bibcode:2004JAP....96.4131C. doi:10.1063/1.1790067.

External links

External media

Audio
“Episode 1, Dr Helen Czerski & Clive Thompson”, Ada Lovelace Day Podcast
Video
“Bubble Physicist Helen Czerski”, University of Rhode Island
“CS4 Interview: Helen Czerski ”, University of Southampton

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• Helen Czerski on BBC Operation Iceberg
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