SFU's Gwenn Flowers studies glaciers and the impact of climate change global warming.

"Personal actions are actually symbolically very important for making change and then normalizing the behaviours that we need to adopt to change things on a large scale.

"Supporting policies, movements and politicians is also really important for those large scale societal changes that are required to confront climate change."

Flowers, a professor in the department of earth sciences, is one of the women scholars SFU is celebrating through our Emerging Thought Leaders program, which aims to increase women's voices in media.