Groundbreaking work on glacial methane emissions: iC3 researcher wins national award

Gabrielle Kleber, a postdoc with the iC3 Polar Research Hub, has won the national Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for women in geosciences for her work on methane emissions in the Arctic. 

Citing her “extraordinary talent and dedication as scientist,” the award committee noted that:

“[Gabrielle] has published 6 papers, 4 of them as first author, with one in Nature Geoscience. She seems to be an inquisitive scientist, heavily involved in field campaigns, but also in teaching and outreach. The committee was impressed by her previous experience as a trained engineer and activity in the Circumnavigators Club Foundation.”

In recent years, Gabrielle has spent up to nine months each year conducting fieldwork on Svalbard, where she investigates how glacier retreat drives methane emissions—a critical piece in the climate change puzzle. Her research has involved sampling at over 100 glaciers across Svalbard and spending months at a time living and working at remote glacier sites. 

You can read an interview with her here. To find out more about her work, check out her list of publications, or contact her by email.

Half of the more than 50 scientists working at iC3 are early career researchers. Each of them is integrated into one of iC3’s interdisciplinary research units and benefits from iC3’s dedicated mentorship and graduate training programme.

If you are interested in joining the friendly iC3 team as a postdoc, please keep an eye out for 2026 MSCA grant opportunities. We expect to announce them on this blog in late February. 

Credit: Leonard Magerl (UiT)