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

2013

Paul, F, NE Barrand, S Baumann, E Berthier, T Bolch, K Casey, H Frey, SP Joshi, V Konovalov, R Le Bris, N Molg, G Nosenko, C Nuth, A Pope, A Racoviteanu, P Rastner, B Raup, K Scharrer, S Steffen and S Winsvold (2013) On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY 54 (63) doi: 10.3189/2013AoG63A296

2012

Brodzik, M. J., B. Billingsley, T. Haran, B. Raup, M. H. Savoie. (2012) EASE-Grid 2.0: Incremental but Significant Improvements for Earth–Gridded Data Sets ISPRS International Journal of Geo–Information  1 (1) 32-45, doi: 10.3390/ijgi1010032

2011

Kargel, J, R Furfaro, G Kaser, G Leonard, W Fink, C Huggel, A Kaab, B Raup, J Reynolds, D Wolfe and M Zapata (2011) ASTER Imaging and Analysis of Glacier Hazards LAND REMOTE SENSING AND GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: NASA'S EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM AND THE SCIENCE OF ASTER AND MODIS 11 doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6749-7_15
Ballagh, LM, BH Raup, RE Duerr, SJS Khalsa, C Helm, D Fowler and A Gupte (2011) Representing scientific data sets in KML: Methods and challenges COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES 37 (1) doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.004

2009

Racoviteanu, AE, F Paul, B Raup, SJS Khalsa and R Armstrong (2009) Challenges and recommendations in mapping of glacier parameters from space: results of the 2008 Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) workshop, Boulder, Colorado, USA ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY 50 (53) doi: 10.3189/172756410790595804

2008

Beedle, MJ, M Dyurgerov, W Tangborn, SJS Khalsa, C Helm, B Raup, R Armstrong and RG Barry (2008) Improving estimation of glacier volume change: a GLIMS case study of Bering Glacier System, Alaska CRYOSPHERE 2 (1) doi: 10.5194/tc-2-33-2008

2007

Raup, B, A Kaab, JS Kargel, MP Bishop, G Hamilton, E Lee, F Paul, F Rau, D Soltesz, SJS Khalsa, M Beedle and C Helm (2007) Remote sensing and GIS technology in the global land ice measurements from space (GLIMS) project COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES 33 (1) doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.05.015
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Contact

bruce.raup@colorado.edu
303-492-8814
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