My name is Dr. Ruth Mottram, I am a climate scientist (specialism in glaciology and ice sheet – climate interactions) in Denmark.
You can find out lots more about my research and publications here
I’ve been working at DMI for 14 years where I mostly run high resolution regional climate models in the polar regions and work on ice sheet processes. Much of this work is focused on understanding how quickly the big ice sheets will lose their ice and contribute to global sea level rise. Living only around 10 metres above sea level focuses the mind a bit..
Some projects I’m working on right now within these themes.:
Horizon 2020 project on sea level rise, ice sheets and climate in PROTECT: 
Horizon 2020 project on polar climate processes with state of the art regional climate models: PolarRES
I am now also EU coordinator of the Horizon Europe project Ocean:Ice
The Socials:
I recently joined the fediverse (federated universe) of different social network type tools where I’m mostly active on mastodon: @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org. I occasionally hang out on blue sky.
I also have a video sharing account on peertube, where I occasionally post videos on scientific topics.
I’m no longer on facebook or instagram, though I still maintain a blipfoto presence as well as uploading albums on flickr where I also sometimes post fieldwork photos.
I am an adult in the 21st century so I also have a linkedin profile.
My Research Gate profile
My research.dmi.dk page
Sterna Paradisaea 
Dear Professor mottram,
I am writing to you today to find out about a question I’ve been passing around to many scientists. I want to preface this by saying I appreciate the reports you’ve released. I also appreciate the constant messaging you’ve done on climate. I really appreciate it. But now I am writing to you today for something I’ve been asking of many scientists and prominent journalists. Which is simply put, what gives you climate hope? As well as hope in any sense, I have my own reasons to fight for this beautiful earth and it’s people. I just want to know the answers of everyone else. Of course if you have no answers currently or are simply too busy it’s no matter. I know many people are busy as of late with all these events. But if you could pass this along to anyone else I’d greatly appreciate it. I do look forward to your answer. I hope you have a good day and year.
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Estimada Dra. Mottram, Mi nombre es María José Castaño González, trabajo en la Dirección General Marítima de Colombia (DIMAR). La contacto porque encontré su perfil investigando sobre modelación de hielo en la Antártida y me gustaría hacerle una consulta breve. Estamos desarrollando, junto con DHI, un modelo de deriva de icebergs (Agent-Based Model, en MIKE ECO Lab) para el Océano Austral, enfocado en la zona del Estrecho de Bransfield e Islas Shetland del Sur. Es un desarrollo inicial: incluye fuerzas de viento, corriente, oleaje y Coriolis, pero aún no está calibrado ni validado contra observaciones reales, y no incorpora el efecto del hielo marino sobre la deriva ni el desprendimiento (calving). Vi que su trabajo incluye mecánica de fracturas y sus aplicaciones en glaciares con desprendimientos; entendemos que su enfoque es más el origen del iceberg (calving) que su deriva posterior una vez que ya está flotando, pero quería preguntarle directamente: ¿tiene usted experiencia o conocimiento en la física de la deriva de icebergs (arrastre de viento/corriente, interacción con hielo marino) que pudiera sernos útil? Y si no es su área principal, ¿conoce a algún investigador o grupo que trabaje específicamente en eso, que pudiera orientarnos o apoyarnos como asesor técnico? Cualquier información o contacto que pueda compartir sería de mucha ayuda para nosotros. Muchas gracias de antemano por su tiempo. Saludos cordiales, [tu nombre]
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