I am a Postdoc at Kiel University (CAU) who uses potential fields geophysics to study the Earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
I currently maintain several Python packages:
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PolarToolkit: This package provides many tools to help conduct polar/cryospheric research. This includes easily downloading and retrieving a wide range of datasets (i.e., imagery, topography, ice velocity), plotting functions for publication-quality maps and cross-sections, and many other helpful functions.
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Invert4Geom: This package allows users to perform 3D geometric gravity inversions for modelling the relief (topography) of an Earth layer, such as the Moho, the sediment-basement contact, or bathymetry. This package includes functions for performing stochastic uncertainty analysis to give spatially-variable uncertainty estimates.
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AirborneGeo: This package is for processing airborne geophysical data, mainly focused on gravity and magnetics, but offers some utility for other geophysical data types, as well as other survey types, like marine surveys.
Current research ⏳:
- Developing a sub-Ice Shelf bathymetry model for Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf from the inversion of airborne gravity data
Past research 💤:
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Using synthetic data to investigate bathymetry-gravity inversions and the effects on performance of aspects like data spacing, noise, and regional field strength
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Determining magnetic basement topography beneath the Ross Ice Shelf (GRL paper)
Other research interests include:
- geologic controls on ice dynamics
- various applications of geometric non-linear gravity inversions
- groundwater interactions with sub-ice hydrologic system
- tectonic development of the Ross Embayment