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* This profile page is created/updated for the 1st IAHR Online Forum (July 5-7, 2021) * Wåhlin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-6476) is a Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg. Her research focus is in field-based oceanography. Specifically her research investigates several aspects of dynamics of polar seas including physical oceanography, ocean circulation, topographic effects, ice shelf melt processes and air-sea-ice interaction. When Wåhlin was appointed professor in 2015 she became Sweden's first female full Professor of Oceanography. Wåhlin is project leader for Sweden's national AUV infrastructure funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. This AUV became the world's first to venture under Thwaites glacier, Antarctica, in 2019. Wåhlin was between 2015-2017 co-chair of the joint Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and SCOR initiative Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). She is an Editor of the journal Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans and associate editor of Advances in Polar Science. Her awards include receiving the Albert Wallin science prize from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences (KKVS) in Gothenburg 2018, being a Fulbright Scholar (2007-2008), receiving a Crafoord Research Stipend from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (2010), being a SCAR visiting professor (2013).

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