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Research Themes


Calving dynamics and ice shelf damage

Bed topography mapping

Ice-Ocean Interactions

Ice-atmosphere interactions

Subglacial hydrology

Paleoclimate modeling

Numerical methods & HPC

Thwaites Glacier Collaboration

On-going Projects


  • European Research Council (ERC) CALIX: Calving Law for Ice-Climate Simulations (2026-2031)
  • NSF – Office of Polar Programs (OPP) NERC-NSFGEO: BISTO: Better Ice Sheet forecasts via Transient assimilation and refined Ocean forcing (2025-2028)
  • NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) – Studies With ICESat-2 Using ICESat-2 observations to reduce uncertainty in future ice sheet model projections (2024-2027)
  • NSF – Arctic Research Opportunities Collaborative Research: Using the Ice Sheet and Sea-level System Model and geological constraints to investigate the disappearance of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (2024-2027)
  • NASA’s Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program Earth System Data Record of Ice Motion, Grounding Line, and Bed Topography in Antarctica from NISAR and other sensors (2023-2027)
  • Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Predictions (CISP) (2023-2029)
  • NASA’s Earth Surface and Interior (ESI) Greenland-scape: Uncovering topography and geology beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet (2022-2026)
  • NSF – Harnessing the Data Revolution HDR Institute: iHARP– Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (2022-2026)
  • NSF – Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Convergence of Bayesian inverse methods and scientific machine
    learning in Earth system models through universal differentiable programming DJ4Earth (2021-2025)
  • NSF – ARCSS-Arctic System Science Collaborative Research: GRate – Integrating data and modeling to quantify rates of Greenland Ice Sheet change, Holocene to future (2021-2025)

Timelapse of Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, 2014–2025. (Credits: Copernicus Sentinel data retrieved from ASF DAAC, processed by ESA, B. Getraer)