For Ada Lovelace Day 2025 I created a colouring-in illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.
Two new maps were added to the composition: Edinburgh (birthplace and primary/secondary education) and Dunrobin in Ottawa (countryside home in Canada).
It also incorporates an interpretation of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Massey Medal she was awarded in 1972 for her “excellent work in Arctic geography and sea-ice”.
Isobel Moira Dunbar (1918 – 1999)
Moira Dunbar Wikipedia article
Ada Lovelace Day
On Tuesday 14th October, the University of Edinburgh’s Information Services team are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2025 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). This is our 10th year of celebrating that day!
We have planned events and activities with a climate and earth sciences theme, running in the afternoon and early evening of that date.
Edinburgh event booking details
Copyright and licence
The text and images published within this post are all intended to be shared, reused and remixed. In order to encourage this I’ve applied a Creative Commons open licence to my own content where the only requirements are to include the following attribution and distribute your contributions under the same licence as the original.
Copyright © Stewart Lamb Cromar, The University of Edinburgh 2025 CC BY-SA.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International Licence.
Original image credit
Based on the Canadian Defense Research Board photograph of her with Arctic sea-ice maps (CC BY-SA 4.0) on Wikimedia Commons.
Further resources
We have over 30 illustrated portraits of Women in STEM that are open-licenced (attribution only). All of them have a strong connection with the University of Edinburgh, past or present.
For even more illustrations please look at our ‘We have great stuff’ colouring books, there are three different volumes available.
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