We have a new paper out! Work with Leigh Stearns, Michael Shahin, and Sid Shankar studying the potential of new ICEYE SAR satellite imagery to study the dynamic behaviour of ice mélange around the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet.The higher resolution enhances surface texture and improves accuracy of iceberg classification.Through the enhanced image textures, … Continue reading New paper out in Journal of Glaciology! →

Next week we will be at EGU in Vienna presenting some of our teams exciting new research! Please come and talk to us: Poster #1 🧊 The distribution of glacier surge behaviour in Svalbard and implications for understanding unstable ice flow📅 Poster | Monday, 28 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Hall X5, X5.125📰 Abstract: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/EGU25-12624.html✍ Authors: William Harcourt, Danni … Continue reading EGU Contributions! →

We are pleased to share our new project that officially kicked off in 2025: 'Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalbardDT)'. Website here: https://svalbarddt.org/The SvalbardDT project will build a Digital Twin Component (DTC) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESAs) Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative to build a digital twin of the Earth. We will construct a … Continue reading New ESA Project! →

I was involved in a paper published in Science last week that studied a tsunami that occurred in a fjord in East Greenland. That tsunami was caused by a huge rockslide that fell onto a small valley glacier and travelled into the fjord, creating a 'seiche' which is back and forth movement of water, kind … Continue reading New paper in Science! →

March and April were hectic with Arctic Science Summit Week, then fieldwork in Svalbard and a trip to Vienna for the annual EGU Assembly. The most exciting trip was, of course, our campaign to Svalbard to continue our monitoring of Borebreen's active surge. In April, me and colleagues ventured back up to Svalbard to undertake … Continue reading Svalbard – continued monitoring of Borebreen’s surge! →

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 … Continue reading New Paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing! →

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, … Continue reading New Dramatic Video on our Svalbard Fieldwork in 2023! →

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 … Continue reading Fully-funded PhD Project! →