Research
My interests go out to remote sensing and field studies of glaciers and ice sheets. My research focuses in particular on the polar regions. I am involved in several international research projects focused on monitoring changes in the cryosphere and their relation to climate.
I am a senior research scientist at ENVEO, a science and engineering company - based in Innsbruck, Austria - specialised in development and applications of satellite based Earth Observation for climate monitoring and cryosphere studies. I work in projects focused on determining changes in Arctic and Antarctic ice masses. Below follows a list of projects I am/was involved in:
- ESA Polar+ Ice Shelves
- ESA Polar+ 4D Greenland
- ESA Polar+ Earth Observation for Surface Mass Balance (EO4SMB)
- ESA STSE CryoSat+ CryoTop Evolution [NEW Paper]
- IMBIE [Paper] [BBC]
- ESA 4D Antarctica
- EU Copernicus Climate Change Service [C3S]
- ESA CCI Antarctic Ice Sheet [NEW Paper][featured on CNN]
- ESA CCI Greenland Ice Sheet
- ESA CCI Glaciers
- ESA GlacAPI
- ESA SAMBA
- ESA STSE CryoSat+ Mountain Glaciers [featured on BBC]
- ESA STSE CryoSat+ GLITter
- ESA STSE Antarctic Peninsula Mass Balance
- ESA STSE ArcFlux
A recent BBC article highlights some of the work we do at ENVEO. Read more.....
My dissertation research - completed in 2006 at The Ohio State University and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center- focused on retrieval and analysis of ice flow velocity data using RADARSAT-1 imagery of Antarctica. More specifically, I used this data to investigate spatial and temporal variations in flow controlling factors, ice-marginal changes, mass balance and calving rates of major outlet glaciers through force-budget theory and various models. A PDF of my dissertation can be downloaded here (19 Mb). Read more.....
