Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washingon, Seattle, Washington

Research Interests

My current research interests are in arctic climate, climate change, sea ice mechanics and modeling, and remote sensing. I have developed a new Lagrangian dynamic model of sea ice that is to be used for the assimilation of ice trajectory data from buoys and RGPS. I am working with RGPS data as well as other satellite and ground-based observations and with the PSC coupled ice-ocean model to analyze the recent thinning of the sea ice. In addition I am working on a number of different data assimilation projects and on methods of forecasting seasonal ice conditions.