The main objective of my doctoral research is to reduce sea ice mass balance uncertainty, focusing on the Western Ross Sea.
I am working on a snow thickness assessment over sea ice and its influence on sea ice freeboard, thanks to data from an airborne snow radar and field measurements obtained in this area in November 2023. By altering the buoyancy, snow thickness impacts the calculated ice thickness data from satellite altimeters used for ice volume estimations and comparisons.
I am also studying floe spatial distribution and the prevalence of ridges in this very dynamical area that contains several polynyas, to get a better overview of the ice volume aggregated and accumulated on a scale that might be ignored by the coarser resolution of many satellite products.
Working Thesis Title:
Assessment of pack ice characteristics and sea ice mass balance in the Western Ross Sea based on remote sensing and geophysical data.
Supervisors:
Primary supervisor: Wolfgang Rack
Co-supervisors: Daniel Price, Shelley MacDonell, Adrian Tan
Research interests:
- Sea ice
- Snow on sea ice
- Remote sensing
- Radar signal processing
- Satellite products from: ICESat-2, CryoSat-2, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, LandSat-8, LandSat-9
Academic History:
· BSc in Environmental Sciences (Specialization in Oceanography), Aix-Marseille University.
· MSc in Oceanography, Aix-Marseille University. First year: Erasmus exchange to the University of Tromsø.
