Kenneth M. Golden

Kenneth Golden
Kenneth Golden
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Dartmouth College; New York University
Known for	Mathematics of Sea Ice
Awards	Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (1996); SIAM Fellow (2011); AMS Fellow (2013); Fellow of the Explorers Club (2014);
	Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics; Geomathematics; Composite Materials
Institutions	Rutgers University; Princeton University; University of Utah
Thesis	Bounds for Effective Parameters of Multicomponent Media by Analytic Continuation (1984)
Doctoral advisor	George C. Papanicolaou
Website	https://www.math.utah.edu/~golden/

Ken Golden taking a sea ice core off the coast of East Antarctica, with the icebreaker Aurora Australis in the background. Photo taken by David Lubbers during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem eXperiment II (SIPEXII), October 2012.

Kenneth Morgan Golden (born September 30, 1958) is an American applied mathematician and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah, where he is also an adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering. He works on modeling sea ice and its role in Earth’s climate and polar marine ecosystems. Golden has been on nineteen expeditions to study the physics and biology of sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic.