My name is Will Harcourt and I am an interdisciplinary Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. The research of our group spans across multiple disciplines and primarily within the subject areas of the cryosphere, remote sensing, and machine learning. We welcome anyone who is interested in our research topics to get in touch, we’ll be more than happy to discuss potential synergies and research opportunities. For prospective undergraduate / postgraduate taught students interested in undertaking dissertations with us, please get in touch and we can discuss potential ideas. We’ll also be more than happy to discuss possibilities of internships, developing a PhD project and postdoctoral research with us (e.g. PDRAs, fellowships). We are also happy to host PhD students and more senior academics to initiate new collaborations.
This website provides details of our groups activities. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to find out more.
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Visit to Robert Gordon’s College
Will Harcourt and Morrigan Jones from the Department of Geography, University of Aberdeen, visited Robert Gordon’s College on Wednesday 21st February 2024 to discuss their research on glaciers; both on Earth and Mars! Will Harcourt discussed the importance of glaciers to our society and showcased some amazing stories of his fieldwork in locations such as Read more
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New Paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing!
We have a new paper out in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGARS) entitled: “3D terrain mapping and filtering from coarse resolution data cubes extracted from real-aperture 94 GHz radar”. Link here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10398270 We developed a new workflow to extract point clouds from 3D data cubes acquired using 94 GHz radar, specifically that Read more
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New Dramatic Video on our Svalbard Fieldwork in 2023!
As we bring 2023 to a close, I would like to share this amazing video that we have created at the University of Aberdeen that dramatically captures the fieldwork we conducted in August 2023. With a big thanks to Euan Wemyss for creating the video and to our field team consisting of myself, Danni Pearce, Read more
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Fully-funded PhD Project!
We are now advertising a fully-funded PhD project. The project will investigate how ice melange in Greenland’s fjords are formed and preserved, then how this impacts marine ecosystems. The project will utilise recent advances in deep learning methodologies to automatically extract key parameters of ice melange characteristics (e.g. extent, iceberg concentrations, velocity) and relate this Read more
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Will there be a new ocean pathway in Svalbard?
It’s interesting to visualise glacier changes in Svalbard. At the end of Hornsund fjord, Hornbreen has been retreating consistently. Below is a GIF showing these changes. The glacier shares a catchment with the neighbouring Hambergbreen to the east, which is also retreating. At some point in the future, these 2 glaciers will retreat and lead Read more
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New Paper in Geophysical Research Letters!
We report a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters entitled “94 GHz radar backscatter characteristics of alpine glacier ice”. In this paper, we characterise for the first time the radar backscatter characteristics of glacier ice at 94 GHz. This radar frequency has seldom been used for glacier mapping and monitoring but has the potential to Read more
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