Teaching/Students/Postdocs

Teaching (until spring 2020)

(Note, I transferred to Oslo University, Norway, in September 2020) and therefore will no longer teach the classes below (except for the International Summer School). I maintain an affiliation/partial employment with UAF, but I won't be accepting any students anymore at UAF.)

GEOS 120: Glaciers, Earthquakes, Volcanoes (Co-taught)

  • Course Description of glacier part: Alaska is one of the most glacierized areas in the world outside Greenland and Antarctica. The course provides a descriptive overview of what glaciers are, their significance for water resources, global sea-level and climate, how they move, grow or retreat, how they have fluctuated in the recent and geological history of the Earth, what they can tell us about former climates and what topical issues are in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska. The class is for non-science majors and does not involve any math.

  • Taught each semester (lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays, labs)

GEOS 617: Glaciers

  • Course Description: The course deals with present-day glaciers and ice sheets including the mechanisms responsible for their existence, motion and variations, and the paleoclimate information they contain. The course focuses on the processes related to glacier mass balance, glacier meteorology, energy exchange at the glacier surface, glacier-climate interactions, and the response of glaciers to climate change, but also includes topics such as glacier hydrology, ice dynamics, and glacier thermodynamics.

  • Instructional methods: lectures, student presentations, literature seminars

  • Taught every second fall (odd years)

  • Prerequisite: Calculus math

GEOS 695: International Summer School in Glaciology

  • Course Description: The course is an intense 11 day graduate level course in glaciology. It was given every second year between 2010 and 2022 (except for 2020 due to the pandemic) and is envisaged to be offered again in June 2024.

AG-825 Glaciology at UNIS, Svalbard (2008 - 2014)

  • Guest lecturing for mass-balance week.


PhD students (main advisor for)

Completed:

  • 2022: Federico Covi (UAF): Processes in the percolation zone in southwest Greenland: Challenges in modeling surface energy balance and melt, and the role of topography in the formation of ice slabs

  • 2021: Andrew Johnson (UAF): Melt on Antarctic ice shelves: Observing surface melt duration from microwave remote sensing and modeling the dynamical impacts of subshelf melting

  • 2020: Jason Geck (UAF): Changing glaciers in the Brocks Range and Western Chugach Mountains, Alaska: Mass loss, runoff increase and supraglacial vulcanic tephra coverage

  • 2020: Matvey Debolskiy (UAF): Modeling permafrost dynamics and water balance of Arctic watersheds in a changing climate; ( co-chair with V. Romanovsky)

  • 2016: Christian Kienholz (UAF): Glacier monitoring and mass-balance modeling in Alaska

  • 2013: Robert McNabb (UAF): On the frontal ablation of Alaska tidewater glaciers

  • 2008: Mattias de Woul (Stockholm University): Response of glaciers to climate change - mass balance sensitivities, sea-level and runoff pdf

  • 2008: Valentina Radic (UAF): Modelling sea-level rise from melting glaciers pdf. Now at UBC, Vancouver, Canada


MSc students (or equivalent, main advisor for)

Completed:

  • 2016: Aurora Roth (UAF)

  • 2013: Christian Kienholz (UAF)

  • 2007: Raphael Hubacher, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology (INK), Stockholm University

  • 2006: Joe Sedlar, Meteorological Department, Stockholm University

  • 2006: John Hulth, INK, Stockholm University

  • 2006: Magnus Sannebro, INK, Stockholm University

  • 2004: Dirk-Sytze Koostra, INK, Stockholm University

  • 2003: Mattias de Woul, INK, Stockholm University

  • 2003: Emma Mattisson, Technical University Stockholm

  • 2002: Per Holmberg, Meteorological Department, Stockholm University

  • 2001: Yvonne Kramer, Uppsala University

  • 2000: Margareta Johansson, Stockholm University

  • 2000: Ulf Jonsell, Uppsala University


Postdocs

Last update: November 2022