Jonathan Louis Bamber is a British physicist known for his work on satellite remote sensing of the polar regions and especially the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. He has authored more than 180 refereed scientific publications about the cryosphere and its interaction with the rest of the Earth System, and is recognised by the Institute for Scientific Information as a "highly cited researcher”. In 2019 he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union "For pioneering satellite remote sensing in glaciology and building bridges to other disciplines of the geoscience community." He is the first non-US scientist in the Cryosphere division to receive this honour. Background Bamber is the son of Helen Bamber, who was a British psychotherapist and human rights activist, and Rudi Bamber, a first generation Holocaust survivor. Rudi’s testimony is held as part of the oral history of the Holocaust at the London Imperial War Museum, where Helen also recorded her experiences of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. Education Bamber went to Creighton Comprehensive school in North London, and then he studied physics at the University of Bristol, earning a BSc in 1983 and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in glaciology and remote sensing in 1987. Research and appointments Bamber spent eight years in the Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London before returning to the University of Bristol to the Department of Geography in 1996, where he has been since. His focus has been on satellite observations of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, but he has also studied other parts of the cryosphere in the Arctic, Patagonia and Himalaya. In 2013, he published a paper on the discovery of the longest canyon in the world, buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet, which has been dubbed the "Grand Canyon" of Greenland. His work also looks at the different factors that influence contemporary sea level variations funded by the European Research Council and the role of freshwater fluxes from Arctic land ice on ocean circulation. His work on the ice sheets and sea level has been adopted in several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports, including the Assessment Report 4 and 5, Special Report 1.5, Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere, and has been highlighted by the World Economic Forum. Awards and honours In 2007 Bamber was given the European Geosciences Union Service award "in recognition of his outstanding