Natalia Galin

PhD Student

Natalia Galin, currently 24, graduated with Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from University of New South Wales in 2006, earning first class honors with her project "Hardware Implementation of the Discrete Wavelet Transform for JPEG2000", which at the time was one of the fastest and most memory efficient DWT architectures in published literature. She later worked as a contractor for Agere Systems, Australia in 3G mobile technology development, contributing to next generation wireless microchips.

Natalia’s interest in the study of the Earth's climate and what factors affect it and how, led her to pursue a PhD in helping understand the very important role that sea ice plays in this process. The significance of sea ice on global climate is only just being recognised and an accurate assessment of snow depth covering this ice is needed to enable researchers to determine the depth of the sea ice itself. Subsequently, in addition to learning the geophysical aspects of snow and sea ice, it is this "Remote Sensing of Snow Depth over Sea Ice" which forms the main aim of Natalia's PhD.

In her spare time Natalia enjoys scuba diving, trekking, hobby electronics, dancing, playing her guitar and signing. She has also recently gained her Advanced Amateur Radio certificate (VK2WNG), and is looking forward to perhaps having the opportunity to be on air during the voyage!