In Memory of Seymour Laxon

I can’t begin to imagine the loss that his family and everyone at CPOM is feeling.

I only started working with Seymour in the last 18 months and from our few brief meetings his enthusiasm for his work, and for me as a modeller to appreciate the subtleties and limits to the data, were very clear :) During one visit to UCL over the summer he took a lot of time out of a day to explain lots of basics to me which I was very appreciative of - I think I now have a much better understanding of what goes into deriving ice thickness data. I am sure that the impact of his scientific work will continue for decades to come and I hope we can do it justice by making use of the thickness measurements from CryoSat.

His family and all at CPOM will be in my thoughts and prayers.