Melody Sandells studied Physics at Imperial College, London before undertaking her PhD at the University of Reading and postdoc at University College London. She is now an Associate Professor at Northumbria University and is one of the developers of the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer model. Her research interests include earth observation of snow and soil moisture, snow physics, snow vegetation radiative interactions, microwave remote sensing and hydrology.

Daniela Flocco studied Environmental Sciences and a PhD at SPRI at the University of Cambridge. She carried out her post-doctoral research on sea ice thermodynamics at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling in London and then in Reading. She moved on to the National Centre for Atmospheric Science working on a project on sea ice predictability. She now works at the University of Naples Federico II on regional microclimates.