Jane K. Hart

Jane K Hart is a Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Southampton UK. She has a BSc in Physical Geography from the University of Reading and a PhD in Glaciology from the University of East Anglia. She was Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Manchester(1988–89). Currently Research Group Leader for Landscape Dynamics and Ecology [1]

Professor Jane K Hart
Born	Colchester, England
Alma mater	University of Reading, University of East Anglia,
Known for	Significant Contributions to glaciology and informatics
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Southampton
Thesis	Genesis of the North Norfolk Drift (1987)
Website	http://www.southampton.ac.uk/geography/about/staff/jhart.page

Jane Hart's research is in glacial sedimentology and Environmental Sensor Networks and informatics. In glacial sedimentology and glaciology, the research is concerned with the formation of till (glacial sediments), glaciotectonics and links between subglacial processes and climate change. Her research has been carried out at numerous modern day glaciers including Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, Norway and Alaska; as well as Quaternary (Ice Age) sediments from Norfolk, Wales, Ireland, Germany, USA and New Zealand.She is particularly concerned with the quantification of subglacial processes, highlighted from her research on in situ subglacial experiments, ground penetrating radar (GPR), time –lapse cameras and UAV surveying.

She has pioneered the development of Environmental Sensor Networks (wireless sensor networks) for studying/monitoring the environment, particularly in relation to glaciers and climate change . She co-leads the Glacsweb project ()which was the first project to develop a wireless sensor network to study glacier processes. A key part of this project was the design and deployment of in situ probes within the ice and the till which measured glacier processes and relayed the data 'live' via the internet (Briksdalsbreen, Norway, 2003-2006); Skalafellsjokull, Iceland 2008-2015). This was followed by the Mountain Sensing project ()to use Internet of Things ((IoT)) technology to monitor climate change on the Cairngorm Plateau, Scotland (2013-15). She is currently co-leading a project which uses low cost IoT-enabled Real Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System systems to measure glacier velocity. These were installed in Iceland in 2017 and send data back to the UK every day.

Jane is an active member of the Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) section at the American Geophysical Union. She is the co-founder of the series of conferences on Environmental Sensor Networks since 2004, she was on the ESSI Programme Committee (2017-2020), and on the ESSI Executive committee, as Chair of the Programme Committee (2018-19) and currently as the EGU representative (2020-21).

She is also an advocate for women’s rights and education. She has been actively involved with “Funds for Women Graduates”, a UK Charity which supports women postgraduates, and she is the current Chair. She was one of the founding members of the University of Southampton 'Women in Science Engineering & Techology (WiSET)' group, jointly began the annual Campbell Lecture (celebration of Women in Science) and has been the chair of WiSET twice.