Next generation ice-sheet bed measurements

Mathieu Morlighem is a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College. His research interests are focused on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the Cryosphere, as well as reducing uncertainties in the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise using numerical modelling. He is one of the founders and core developers of the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model, a new generation, high-resolution, higher-order physics Ice Sheet Model. He also developed and maintains BedMachine, a high-resolution subglacial bed topography dataset of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

Dr Hamish Pritchard is a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey specialising in mapping, monitoring and understanding the cryosphere through remote sensing, field surveys and instrumentation. His research targets the two outstanding icy issues facing the world as the climate changes: sea level rise, and the fate of mountain water resources. He was a lead author on the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere and currently leads Bedmap3, re-mapping the hidden bed of the Antarctic ice sheets, and the Natural Environment Research Council project ‘The Big Thaw’, filling gaps in our knowledge of mountain snow and ice.

Dr McCormack is a Senior Lecturer and Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future. Felicity's research focusses on understanding processes of ice flow, and the impact of climate variability and change on Antarctic ice loss. Her research uses ice sheet models, geophysical observations, and theory. In 2019, Felicity was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Irvine.

Steve has a PhD in Polar Remote Sensing from the University of Edinburgh and has previously held research positions at Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds. Since 2013, he has been based at the University of Exeter, where he uses a variety of Remote Sensing approaches and emerging machine learning techniques to investigate Earth surface processes. His main research focus has been quantifying changes in glacier hydrology and ice flow in the context of climate warming. Using airborne ice penetrating radar methods, Steve has contributed to our understanding of conditions at the base of the Greenland ice sheet - better understanding of which is key to making more accurate projections of how the ice sheets are likely to change under continued global heating.

Dr Kenichi Matsuoka earned his PhD from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2002. After completing postdoctoral training in Japan and the USA, he was appointed Research Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in 2005. In 2010, he joined the Norwegian Polar Institute, where he currently serves as a Senior Research Scientist specializing in Antarctic glaciology. Dr Matsuoka's research focuses on subglacial environments, ice dynamics, and ice-sheet evolution, with an emphasis on using ice-penetrating radar. Through extensive international collaborations, he has advanced our understanding of Antarctic ice processes. He is the chair of the SCAR Action Group Antarctic RINGS, which aims to address critical data gaps in the Antarctic ice-sheet margin to enhance sea-level rise projections.

Rob DeConto is Provost Professor of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences and Director of the School of Earth & Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts. Rob’s background spans Earth science, climate physics, and glaciology. His research on the dynamic behaviour of ice sheets, their role in future sea level rise, and the impacts of sea level rise on coastlines and people has been featured on the cover of Nature and the front page of the New York Times. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a recipient of the Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica, and a selected lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Rob co-hosts the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project office of the World Climate Research Programme and he serves on a number of national and international science boards and advisory panels.

Dr Hélène Seroussi is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Her research interests are focused on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the cryosphere, reducing uncertainties in sea level rise using numerical modelling, and understanding interactions of ice and climate by combining process studies and state-of-the-art numerical modelling with remote sensing and in situ data. She is one of the co-founders and core developers of the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM), is a member of the Steering Committee of the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison project for CMIP (ISMIP6 and ISMIP7), and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. Professor Seroussi received her PhD and Masters’ degrees from École Centrale Paris in France.

Dr Sophie Nowicki is a Professor in the Department of Geology and RENEW Institute at the University at Buffalo. Through applied mathematics, remote sensing observations and numerical modelling, her work spans the spectrum of local processes, such as understanding the physics of ice sheet grounding lines, or the impact of bedrock topography on ice dynamics, to that of large-scale continental ice sheet models and their use in projections of sea level change. As sea level projections from ice sheet models require knowledge of atmospheric and oceanic conditions that drive ice sheet evolution, she is also interested in how to improve climate models in the polar regions, as well as the use of multiple models for projections. Prior to joining the University at Buffalo, Sophie was a civil servant in the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. Sophie was a science team member for NASA's Operation IceBridge and is co-leading the NASA Sea Level Change Team. She is an executive committee member for the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise, phase 2 and 3 (IMBIE2-3), and co-leads the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) and its follow on activity ISMIP7.

Shivani Ehrenfeucht completed her PhD at UCI, California, in September 2023. She is currently a postdoc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), in Germany, where she uses numerical models to study ice sheet tipping behaviour on long timescales (+1000 years). Previously, her research was focused on interactions between ice dynamics and subglacial hydrology, with a focus on the impacts of evolving subglacial hydrology on future sea level rise. Specifically, she has worked with various coupled model configurations to better understand how changes in the subglacial environment can impact ice velocity and mass loss over multiple timescales (i.e. seasonal to centennial) in Greenland and Antarctica.