My research interests are centred on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, how its ice forms and flows, and how global heating affects it. My doctoral research is exploring the ice dynamics on the Western Ross Sea margin, with the goal of improving our understanding of how the deformation and structural failure of landfast sea ice influences the motion of grounded ice. I am relying mostly on remote sensing, while using field data for validation as much as possible, and also incorporating some finite-element ice modelling.
Thesis working title:
Interactions between landfast sea ice deformation and outlet glacier dynamics
Primary supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Rack
Additional supervisors: Dr. Dan Price, Prof. Mathieu Sellier
Research interests:
Ice sheet dynamics & mass balance
Ice sheet surface processes
Antarctic Plateau fieldwork
East Antarctic response to global heating
Microstructure and material properties of ice
Antarctic Plateau meteorology
Location:
Beatrice Tinsley 301
Academic history:
MSc in Climate Physics, Utrecht University (2021CE), thesis: The local climate on the East Antarctic Plateau in relation to large scale flow patterns
MSc in Mathematics, University of Arkansas, (2018CE)
BSc in Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech. (2016CE)
