Bruce Raup

Senior Associate Scientist

About Bruce

Bruce Raup is a senior associate scientist at NSIDC. He specializes in remote sensing of glaciers and ice sheets, and data management and software development related to glaciers. He has applied remote sensing techniques to monitor the spatial extent and velocity fields of ice bodies ranging from small mountain glaciers to ice sheets. Raup has recently been involved in projects focusing on glaciers, snow, and runoff in High Mountain Asia, and is director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) initiative. He enjoys sharing science with students and the public via photography, science fairs, and the NSIDC open house.

Specialties

Remote sensing of glaciers, software development for geospatial and remote sensing applications, web-based client interfaces, data tool development, algorithm development

Current Research

Raup’s research involves global mapping of changes in mountain glaciers via the GLIMS Initiative. He also works with the NASA High Mountain Asia project to make data products maximally useful and accessible.

Education

B.S. in Engineering Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, 1987

M.S. in Geology (ice sheet modeling), University of Colorado, 1995

Selected Publications

2023

Windnagel A; Hock R; Maussion F; Paul F; Rastner P; Raup B; Zemp M (2023) Which glaciers are the largest in the world? Journal of Glaciology 69 (274) 301-310, doi: 10.1017/jog.2022.61

Hayat H; Raup B; Muhammad S; Liu S; Khan R; Baig SU; Ahmad Tahir A (2023) Heterogeneous mass balance of selected Glaciers in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalaya between 2000 and 2018 European Journal of Remote Sensing 56 (1) doi: 10.1080/22797254.2023.2173086

2019

Armstrong, RL; Rittger, K; Brodzik, MJ; Racoviteanu, A; Barrett, AP; Khalsa, SJS; Raup, B; Hill, AF; Khan, AL; Wilson, AM; Kayastha, RB; Fetterer, F; Armstrong, B (2019) Runoff from glacier ice and seasonal snow in High Asia: separating melt water sources in river flow 19 (5) doi: 10.1007/s10113-018-1429-0

2017

Serreze, MC, B Raup, C Braun, DR Hardy and RS Bradley (2017) Rapid wastage of the Hazen Plateau ice caps, northeastern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada CRYOSPHERE 11 (1) doi: 10.5194/tc-11-169-2017

2016

Severskiy, I, E Vilesov, R Armstrong, A Kokarev, L Kogutenko, Z Usmanova, V Morozova and B Raup (2016) Changes in glaciation of the Balkhash-Alakol basin, central Asia, over recent decades ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY 57 (71) doi: 10.3189/2016AoG71A575

Kargel, JS, GJ Leonard, DH Shugar, UK Haritashya, A Bevington, EJ Fielding, K Fujita, M Geertsema, ES Miles, J Steiner, E Anderson, S Bajracharya, GW Bawden, DF Breashears, A Byers, B Collins, MR Dhital, A Donnellan, TL Evans, ML Geai, MT Glasscoe, D Green, DR Gurung, R Heijenk, A Hilborn, K Hudnut, C Huyck, WW Immerzeel, LM Jiang, R Jibson, A Kaab, NR Khanal, D Kirschbaum, PDA Kraaijenbrink, D Lamsal, SY Liu, MY Lv, D McKinney, NK Nahirnick, ZT Nan, S Ojha, J Olsenholler, TH Painter, M Pleasants, KC Pratima, QI Yuan, BH Raup, D Regmi, DR Rounce, A Sakai, S Donghui, JM Shea, AB Shrestha, A Shukla, D Stumm, M van der Kooij, K Voss, W Xin, B Weihs, D Wolfe, LZ Wu, XJ Yao, MR Yoder and N Young (2016) Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepals 2015 Gorkha earthquake SCIENCE 351 (6269) doi: 10.1126/science.aac8353

2014

Pfeffer, WT, AA Arendt, A Bliss, T Bolch, JG Cogley, AS Gardner, JO Hagen, R Hock, G Kaser, C Kienholz, ES Miles, G Moholdt, N Molg, F Paul, V Radic, P Rastner, BH Raup, J Rich, MJ Sharp, LM Andeassen, S Bajracharya, NE Barrand, MJ Beedle, E Berthier, R Bhambri, I Brown, DO Burgess, EW Burgess, F Cawkwell, T Chinn, L Copland, NJ Cullen, B Davies, H De Angelis, AG Fountain, H Frey, BA Giffen, NF Glasser, SD Gurney, W Hagg, DK Hall, UK Haritashya, G Hartmann, S Herreid, I Howat, H Jiskoot, TE Khromova, A Klein, J Kohler, M Konig, D Kriegel, S Kutuzov, I Lavrentiev, R Le Bris, X Li, WF Manley, C Mayer, B Menounos, A Mercer, P Mool, A Negrete, G Nosenko, C Nuth, A Osmonov, R Pettersson, A Racoviteanu, R Ranzi, MA Sarikaya, C Schneider, O Sigurdsson, P Sirguey, CR Stokes, R Wheate, GJ Wolken, LZ Wu and FR Wyatt (2014) The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY 60 (221) doi: 10.3189/2014JoG13J176

Contact

bruce.raup@colorado.edu

303-492-8814

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ORCID

0000-0001-6271-5763

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