Polar climate scientist - exploring the causes and consequences of sea ice change using observations and models.
About me
Research Scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) of the University of Maryland.
Current projects (all as Principal Investigator):
- On-going updates to the analysis of Arctic sea ice thickness from ICESat-2 altimetry data.
- Better projections of polar climate change using state-of-the-art sea ice observations from NASA's ICESat-2 mission (Science Team member as of 2023, data product lead from 2021-2022).
- New Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to define sea ice and land ice altimetry requirements from a future NASA surface topography mission (Science Team member since 2022).
- Improved predictions of seasonal sea ice melt using new data assimilation approaches and model assessments.
- Sea ice mission planning for the upcoming Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction Experiment, ARCSIX (Science Team member since 2022).
- Fusion of ICESat-2 (laser altimeter) and SMAP (L-band) data for enhanced sea ice profiling from space (Science Team member since 2024).
See my complete Academic CV here.
Alternatively, scroll the tabs above or check out my Google Scholar (journal papers), GitHub (open source code repos), ORCID (a confusing website summarizing research output) and my LinkedIn.
Strong proponent and practitioner of Open Science. See the Data and Code tabs and GitHub links included in the Papers tab.
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