e/Tavi Murray

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has gloss	eng: Tavi Murray is a glaciologist, one of only 8 women to have won the Polar Medal. Education After school in Twickenham Murray gained a First Class Honours degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 1990 she was awarded a doctorate in geophysics from the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute. Academic career In 1993 she was appointed Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Leeds, being promoted to Reader in 2002 and Professor in 2004. The following year she was chosen to head up the Swansea Glaciological Group . Major awards From 2004 she has been Leverhulme Research Fellow studying "Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica" . A leading member of the International Glaciological Society Murray is unusual that her medal cited discoveries at both poles . September 2007 marked the launch of the GLIMPSE Project , a 5 year project headed by Murray to determine the controls on thinning at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. GLIMPSE is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award granted to Murray in mid-2007.
lexicalization	eng: Tavi Murray
instance of	c/People from Oxford