Scientists at NSIDC

Scientists at NSIDC

Scientists from around the world use data housed at NSIDC to support their research. Some of these scientists work here at NSIDC, providing both context and input concerning our data management activities. Through their research, our scientists help further understanding of the many changes that our planet is undergoing.

NSIDC scientists are widely published in such journals as Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research; Journal of Climate; Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research; EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union ; and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Our scientists’ expertise has reached a wide audience through Scientific American, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), just to name a few.

Scientists pursue their work as part of the CIRES Cryospheric and Polar Process Division, University of Colorado, Boulder. National agencies fund research through the peer review proposal process.

Mark Serreze
Richard Armstrong
Andrew Barrett
Roger Barry
Florence Fetterer

Oliver W. Frauenfeld
Shari Gearheard
Walt Meier
Ted Scambos

Kevin Schaefer
Andrew Slater
Julienne Stroeve
Tingjun Zhang

SCIENTISTS	SPECIALTY	RESEARCH PROJECTS
Mark Serreze [top] NSIDC Director CIRES Fellow	Arctic climate; global implications; climate warming in the Arctic	Collaborative Research: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System Collaborative Research: A Land Surface Model Hind-cast of the Terrestrial Arctic Drainage System Collaborative Research – IPY: Arctic System Reanalysis Hydrologic Responses to a Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice Cover Interactions Between Frozen Ground in the Russian Arctic and Atmospheric Circulation Synthesis of Modes of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Covariability in the Arctic System from Multivariate Century-Scale Observations
Richard Armstrong [top] CIRES Fellow	Remote sensing of snow, ice, and frozen ground; physical and mechanical properties of snow; snow cover and glacier mass/extent as indicators of climate change	Detecting Change in Glacier Systems (GLIMS) Freezing and Thawing Cycle of Soils at Local, Regional, and Global Scales Investigation of the Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Contiguous United States Merging of Precursor and EOS Data Sets: Resampling of AMSR-E Swath TBs to EASE-Grid Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology Snow Cover Validation Case Study: Tibet Plateau State of the Cryosphere Web Site Validation of AMSR-E Snow Products
Andrew Barrett [top]	Arctic and mountain hydrology; glacier hydrology; hydrological modeling; western United States water resources	Collaborative Research: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System Radiative Effects of Desert Dust Deposits in Alpine Snow: Hydrologic Aspects
Roger Barry [top] WDC Director CIRES Fellow CU Distinguished Professor CU Geography Faculty	Arctic climate; cryosphere-climate interactions; mountain climate; climate change	The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center: Continued Data Collection and Management for Antarctic Glaciology Changes in Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Permafrost Dynamics, and their Hydrological Implications over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin Data Management for a Community-based Monitoring Network: A Pilot Project The Dynamics of Human-Sea Ice Relationships: Comparing Changing Environments in Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland Hydrological Response to Changes in Active Layer and Permafrost Conditions in the Russian Arctic An Integrated Investigation of Coupled Human and Sea Ice Systems: A Comparison of Changing Environments and their Uses in the North American Arctic Permafrost Models Intercomparison Project Twentieth Century Sea Ice Conditions in the Eurasian Arctic from a Comprehensive Reconstitution and Synthesis of Russian Data Sources with Modern Satellite Data
Florence Fetterer [top]	Sea ice; applications-oriented remote sensing; data rescue; data set development	NOAA@NSIDC Observations for SEARCH: Data Integration for Arctic Reanalysis and Change Detection Twentieth Century Sea Ice Conditions in the Eurasian Arctic from a Comprehensive Reconstitution and Synthesis of Russian Data Sources with Modern Satellite Data
Oliver W. Frauenfeld [top]	Synoptic climatology; surface/atmosphere interactions; permafrost dynamics	Changes in Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Permafrost Dynamics, and their Hydrological Implications over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin The Contribution of Land-Surface Processes to Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau Interactions Between Frozen Ground in the Russian Arctic and Atmospheric Circulation
Shari Gearheard [top]	Human-environment interactions; traditional knowledge research; Arctic environment and change; Inuit knowledge; participatory research; innovative technologies and methodologies; linking indigenous and scientific knowledge	Bridging Perspectives from Remote Sensing and Inuit Communities on Changing Sea Ice Cover in the Baffin Bay Region The Dynamics of Human-Sea Ice Relationships: Comparing Changing Environments in Alaska, Nunavut, and Greenland (also referred to as the "Siku-Inuit-Hila" project) Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) Igliniit Project
Walt Meier [top]	Remote sensing of sea ice; impact of sea ice on climate; operational sea ice analysis; assimilation of sea ice data into models	Bridging Perspectives from Remote Sensing and Inuit Communities on Changing Sea Ice Cover in the Baffin Bay Region Kalman Filter Techniques for the Assimilation of Ice Concentration Data into an Ice Prediction Model Potential Improved Sea Ice Analyses and Forecasts via Assimilation of Sea Ice Motions
Ted Scambos [top] Lead Scientist	Glaciology; remote sensing of the poles; climate change effects on the cryosphere; Antarctic history; geochemistry; planetary science	The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center: Continued Data Collection and Management for Antarctic Glaciology “At Risk” Ice Shelves and Outlet Glaciers Building the VELMAP Database for Antarctic Outlet Glaciers Collaborative Research: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and their Potential Effects on Ice Core Interpretation Detecting Ice Sheet Changes via Optical Image Differencing Improved Ice Sheet DEMs Using MODIS and GLAS An International Workshop on the Ice and Climate System of the Antarctic Peninsula Investigating Iceberg Evolution During Drift and Break-Up: A Proxy for Climate-Related Changes in Antarctic Ice Shelves
Kevin Schaefer [top]	Remotely-sensed snow cover; vegetation phenology; soil freeze/thaw dynamics	Carbon Data Assimilation Flux Tower Spatial Coherence Impacts of Soil Freeze/Thaw Dynamics on the North American Carbon Cycle
Andrew Slater [top]	Land-surface and hydrologic modeling of snow, frozen ground, and permafrost; hydrologic forecasting and data assimilation of snow	Collaborative Research: A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System Collaborative Research: A Land Surface Model Hind-cast of the Terrestrial Arctic Drainage System Improving Operational Streamflow Forecasting in the Upper Colorado River Basin Pan-Arctic Land Surface Modeling
Julienne Stroeve [top]	Remote sensing of snow and ice in the visible, infrared, and microwave wavelengths	Bridging Perspectives from Remote Sensing and Inuit Communities on Changing Sea Ice Cover in the Baffin Bay Region Diagnosing the Declining Arctic Ice Cover Investigations of Sea Ice State using Multisensor Data, Time History and Lagrangian Tracking Satellite Studies of Arctic Climate Connections between Sea Ice, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Adjacent Land and Atmospheric Cloud Properties
Tingjun Zhang [top] CIRES Fellow	Permafrost and seasonally frozen ground; remote sensing of near-surface soil freeze/thaw cycle; snow cover and soil thermal dynamics	Biogenic Heat Production in Frozen Tundra and Permafrost: Adaptation to Cold and Impact on Biogeochemical Processes Changes in Freeze-Thaw Cycle and Permafrost Dynamics, and their Hydrological Implications over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basin The Contribution of Land-Surface Processes to Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau Freezing and Thawing Cycle of Soils at Local, Regional, and Global Scales Hydrological Response to Changes in Active Layer and Permafrost Conditions in the Russian Arctic Interactions Between Frozen Ground in the Russian Arctic and Atmospheric Circulation Investigation of the Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Contiguous United States Permafrost Models Intercomparison Project

GRADUATE STUDENTS	RESEARCH INTEREST	ADVISOR
Maureen Cassidy	Dust effects on snow cover in the western United States	Roger Barry
Joel Finnis	Integrated freshwater budget of the Arctic Ocean and its relation to climate change	Marika Holland (NCAR)
David Korn	Mountain glaciology; mountain climatology; climate change	Roger Barry
Atsuhiro Muto	Glaciology; climate change; Antarctica	Ted Scambos

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News

9 June 2009

BBC films NSIDC researcher at work in Nunavut, Canada

19 May 2009

Mark Serreze named NSIDC director

26 April 2009

NSIDC researchers awarded Innovative Research Project

26 January 2009

NSIDC scientist contributes to study on penguin decline