Our Research
As climate changes, how do Earth's frozen areas affect our planet and impact society?
Staff Scientists
Senior Associate Scientist
Specialties:
Sea ice, snow cover dynamics, glacier hydrology, scientific software development, open science
Senior Associate Scientist
Specialties:
Optical and passive microwave remote sensing of snow and ice, remote sensing data gridding schemes, design and development of reliable scientific software, self-describing data set definition, and effective scientific visualization techniques
NSIDC Lead Scientist, Teaching Faculty
Specialties:
Polar weather and climate, atmosphere - ice - ocean - land interaction, weather and climate modeling, atmospheric boundary layer, autonomous observing systems (atmosphere), artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)
Senior Associate Scientist
Specialties:
Polar weather and climate, synoptic climatology, self-organizing maps, extreme events, Arctic cyclones
Research Scientist III
Specialties:
Science policy, coastal sea-ice dynamics, collaborating with Indigenous experts and traditional knowledge holders, community-based monitoring, data management, Arctic observing systems, sea ice and marine mammals, and communicating the societal implications of Arctic change.
Associate Scientist, NOAA@NSIDC Program Manager
Specialties:
Sea ice, applications-oriented remote sensing,; data rescue, data product development
Senior Research Scientist
Specialties:
Arctic environment and change; sea ice; leading multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural research teams; co-production of knowledge; community-led research and monitoring
Research Scientist II
Specialties:
Arctic environmental governance, Indigenous food security and sovereignty, equity in climate change research and policy, community-based monitoring, data management for Indigenous and community-driven research
Research Scientist III
Specialties:
Mountain meteorology, cloud and precipitation microphysics, mesoscale meteorology, radar meteorology
Senior Research Scientist, DAAC Scientist
Specialties:
Sea ice, passive microwave remote sensing, climate data records of sea ice, Arctic climate change, climate change
Research Scientist III, Deputy NSIDC Lead Scientist
Specialties:
Ice dynamics, ice sheet-ocean interaction, ice loss and freshwater flux, ice-ecosystem connections, hydrology of glaciers and ice sheets, glacier-sea ice interaction, observational science, GIS data tool development, research community organization, science communication
Senior Associate Scientist
Specialties:
Remote sensing of glaciers, software development for geospatial and remote sensing applications, web-based client interfaces, data tool development, algorithm development
Senior Scientist, Emeritus
Specialties:
Permafrost dynamics, fire impacts on permafrost, economic impacts of thawing permafrost, subsea permafrost and methane hydrates, land surface modeling, carbon cycle modeling, mercury cycle modeling, land-atmosphere interactions, soil thermodynamics, soil hydrology, atmospheric and soil radiative transfer modeling, inversion theory, remote sensing, project management, orbital mechanics, mercury dynamics in plants and soils
Research Scientist II
Specialties:
Polar meteorology and climatology, measurement of precipitation, meteorology field work in the polar regions, Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, self-organizing maps (SOMs), python applications with meteorology and climate data, semi-automated quality control of observations
NSIDC Director, Teaching Faculty
Specialties:
Arctic climate, climate warming in the Arctic, sea ice variability and trends, water and energy cycles, permafrost, economic and geopolitical aspects of Arctic change
Senior Research Scientist
Specialties:
Remote sensing of sea ice concentration, ice thickness, snow depth, surface albedo and temperature; sea ice-ocean-atmopshere interactions; short and long-term sea ice forecasting, ocean primary productivity, global climate change
Postdoctoral Scientists
Postdoctoral Scientist
Specialties:
Polar climate, albedo, melt pond fraction, uncrewed aerial system (UAS or drone), wind measurements with multi-hole probe on UAS, atmospheric boundary layer, aerosol-cloud interactions, sustainability in field expeditions
Postdoctoral Scientist
Specialties:
Ice dynamics and mass balance, snow processes, surface mass balance and climate modeling
Graduate Students
Graduate Student
Specialties:
Environmental policy, air pollution, groundwater pollution, Arctic weather and climate, Arctic amplification, impacts of sea-level rise, national and global security issues related to climate change
Graduate Student
Specialties:
Polar weather and climate, boundary layer meteorology, artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)
Graduate Student
Specialties:
Polar weather and climate, atmospheric boundary layer meteorology, autonomous observing systems, artificial neural networks (self-organizing maps)
Graduate Student
Specialties:
Synoptic and mesoscale meteorology, weather data analysis and forecasting, Arctic weather and climate, weather observational systems
CU Research Affiliates with NSIDC
Specialties:
Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing, geographic information systems, machine learning and natural language processing, data modeling and metadata, data tool development
Specialties:
Light-absorbing particles in the cryosphere, black carbon, snow algae, snow and glacial hydrology, spectral geophysics, surface optical properties, aquatic biogeochemistry