Elizabeth Weidner
Liz Weidner received her Ph.D. in oceanography from a joint program between the University of New Hampshire and Stockholm University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. She also received her M.Sc. in Ocean Mapping from the University of New Hampshire in 2018, her B.S. in Oceanography from University of Washington in 2012, and worked as a geophysicist for C&C Technologies and Oceaneering in Seattle, WA. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Connecticut.
Liz is an acoustical oceanographer who uses broadband acoustic systems to study high-latitude oceans. Her work aims to characterize the changes occurring in polar coastal waters by combining active acoustic observations (echosounders) with in situ measurements (CTDs, water sampling) and theoretical acoustic scattering models. This includes the study of marine-terminating glaciers, thermohaline structure, gas bubbles, and fluid emissions.