View of Transantarctic Mountains

Goals

  • Improving the understanding of ongoing cryospheric changes by monitoring ice sheet mass balance and ice dynamics
  • Investigating the linkages between subglacial geology and ice sheet dynamics by combining geophysical, remote sensing, climate and glaciological observations 
  • Reconstructing century scale cryospheric changes from historical observations
  • Quantifying ice sheet contribution to sea level rise
  • Developing new approaches for extracting higher level information from remotely sensed observation
  • Developing new methods for change detection, data fusion and visualization to support Earth science applications.

Current Research Projects

NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite mission

  • ICESat-2 horizontal error validation using natural surfaces
  • Integration of ICESat-2 observations into ice sheet elevation change record to investigate ice sheet processes
  • Revealing the processes controlling outlet glacier seasonality with ICESat-2

NASA’s sea level change research

  • Combining multi-satellite observations, modeling and Earth systemdata assimilation for understanding observed and projected sea level change

NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation

  • Ghub as a community-driven data-model framework for ice-sheet science

Latest News and Events

Greenland Glacier Stability

Published August 8, 2023

Greenland glacier N79 may not be as stable as previously thought, UB research suggests

Space Lasers

Published January 30, 2024

Space lasers have unearthed plethora of climate data over the years

Surveying Jakobshavn glacier, ICESat-2 satellite launch, landscape in Dry Valleys, aeromagnetic research group with sensor, Greenland ice sheet aerial photograph.
Surveying Jakobshavn glacier, ICESat-2 satellite launch, landscape in Dry Valleys, aeromagnetic research group with sensor, Greenland ice sheet aerial photograph.
Department of Geology - UB
The University at Buffalo
The State University of New York