Education
University of Washington. University of Michigan.
University of Washington. University of Michigan.
He is a past president of the International Glaciological Society, chairs the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative, is an editor for the Journal of Glaciology and has led 14 expeditions to Antarctica and has participated in numerous other expeditions around the world including Greenland. He has also testified before Congress and has briefed the United States. vice president concerning ice-sheet stability and is often quoted or featured in the media. He was born in Pittsburgh and received a Bachelor of Surgery in astronomy and physics in 1971 from the University of Michigan and earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Geophysics from the University of Washington in 1978 and did post doctoral work in Switzerland prior to working at National Aeronautics and Space Administration. His work revolves around the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets using remote sensing technology.
He has developed applications used to measure ice velocity and elevation using radar imagery which monitors the melting of ice sheets and detects changes in the volume of ice-sheets using radar altimetry.
