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 two 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 modeling the relief (topography) of an Earth layer, such as the Moho, the sediment-basement contact, or bathymetry. This package includes function for performing stochastic uncertainty analysis to give spatially-variable uncertainty estimates.
Current research ⏳:
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Developing a sub-Ice Shelf bathymetry model for Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf from the inversion of airborne gravity data
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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
Past research 💤:
- 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
🔐 Check out the great Python packages from Fatiando.