Kirsty Tinto is a Lamont Associate Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Her research focuses on the interactions between polar ice and oceans and their underlying topography and geology. She has over two decades of experience in polar fieldwork, including leading the potential fields instrument team for NASA’s Operation IceBridge flying over Greenland and Antarctica and the interdisciplinary NSF-funded Rosetta-Ice surveys based from McMurdo Station Antarctica. She holds a Master of Earth Sciences degree from Oxford University, UK and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Otago, New Zealand.