Research Page: William D. Harcourt
Interdisciplinary Fellow at the University of Aberdeen
Will Harcourt presented work on using ICEYE radar satellites to understand the dynamics of ice melange at the terminus of Helheim Glacier in Greenland, in collaboration with the University of Kansas. We studied the texture of ice melange and investigated methods to segment features such as icebergs within the melange matrix. We also looked at … Continue reading EGU23
In March 2021, myself and colleagues from the universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen undertook fieldwork in the Scottish Highlands to map snow-covered terrain using a new, ground-based millimetre-wave radar. We collaborated with the Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS) to assess the capabilities of this new instrument in evaluating snow-associated hazards such as avalanches. This … Continue reading Radar monitoring of snow in Scotland…during a pandemic!?
In May 2020, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly was held as a massive online virtual conference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new format would serve as a large scale experiment to understand the pro's and con's of virtual conferencing, potentially changing the nature of academic conferences forever. In this blog post, … Continue reading My Views on the ‘EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online’ Virtual Conference
In January 2020 I was given the opportunity to attend a conference in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago famed for housing more polar bears than humans. I was attending this conference to discuss my research project that was recently funded by the Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) and to meet people from across the … Continue reading My First Visit to the Arctic!
It is often thought-provoking to quote Roman orators when discussing successful trips to far flung locations. That is not the reason for using it here, it's simply just a catchy title. In this, my very first blog post, I want to share my thoughts on a successful first field trip as part of my PhD. … Continue reading We came, we saw, we scanned a glacier!
I will be blogging about life as a PhD student, general science news and anything that I find interesting! Please check the site out for posts about my activities!
Research Page: William D. Harcourt 