Grants

Selected grants awarded as PI or Co-I from 2018 are listed below.

[2024] (PI) £313,862.20 – European Space Agency (ESA): Svalbard Cryosphere Digital Twin (SvalbardDT)

[2024] (Co-I) £2,000 – Arctic Field Grant: Testing models of crevasse squeeze ridge formation on the foreland of Nansenbreen, Svalbard.

[2023] (Co-I) £100,000 – Development Trust PhD Studentship: Undercover Mineralisation – Identifying mineral enrichments beneath glacial deposits in northeast Scotland utilising machine learning.

[2024] (Co-I) £15,000 – SIOS SESS Report: Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Current knowledge and perspectives for monitoring (SvalSurge).

[2024] (PI) £100,000 – NERC-Funded QUARTILES DLA Studentship: Assessing the impact of glacier surges on 21^st century ice mass loss in Svalbard using satellite remote sensing, climate reanalysis and modelling

[2024] (PI) £500 – SAGES Small Grant Scheme (SSGS): Monitoring of a surging glacier in Svalbard

[2024] (PI) £2,000 – SAGES-SUPA Collaboration Funding: Developing a remote sensing based snow monitoring program in Scotland

[2024] (PI) £15,000 – Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Long-term monitoring of Borebreen’s surge dynamics (LongSurge)

[2023] (Co-I) £100,000 – Development Trust PhD Studentship: Deep Learning and Remote Sensing to study Environmental Change.

[2023] (Co-I) £1,700 (EUR2,000) – IASC: APECS Social Event at ASSW 2024, Edinburgh.

[2023] (Co-I) £2,000 – SAGES Fora: Earth System Modelling & Artificial Intelligence (Earth-MAI).

[2023] (Co-I) £12,102.02 – Research Council of Norway: Diversity & Data – Shaping the Future of Polar Research.

[2023] (PI) £3,500 – Aberdeen Internal Pump-Priming: Comprehensive mapping of glacier discharge using 4D spatio-temporal generative AI modelling.

[2023] (PI) £8,500 – Arctic Field Grant: Linking past and present surge dynamics at Borebreen from drone surveys.

[2023] (PI) £9,600 (In-Kind) – Access to ICEYE Imagery through European Space Agency (ESA):): Assessing tidewater glacier stability using high-resolution ICEYE data.

[2023] (PI) £260,000 (In-Kind) – Access to Planet Imagery through Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Drivers of Surge Activation at Borebreen using Planet Imagery.

[2023] (Co-I) £260,000 (In-Kind) – Access to Planet Imagery through Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Comprehensive Inventory of Glacier Facies in Svalbard using Planet Satellite Constellations.

[2023] (Co-I) £260,000 (In-Kind) – Access to Planet Imagery through Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Hansbreen’s Seismicity.

2023] (PI) £1,000 – Interdisciplinary Fellowship Start Up Grant:: Digital twins and artificial intelligence applied to cryospheric sciences.

[2023] (PI) £100,000 – NERC-Funded Quadrat DTP Studentship: A Sustainable Future for Arctic Marine Shipping using Artificial Intelligence.

[2023] (PI) £10,000 – RGS Walters Kundert Fellowship: Uncovering the drivers of glacier surges using geophysics & physics-informed AI.

[2023] (PI) £750 – SAGES Small Grant Scheme (SSGS): Understanding the Drivers of Surge Activation at Borebreen in Svalbard.

[2023] (PI) £15,000 – Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Drivers of Surge Activation at Borebreen.

[2022] (PI) £700 – VALIDATE Funding: EGU Conference Attendance.

[2021] (PI) $1,000 – AGU Flash Freeze Competition: Story from the fieldwork on Svalbard facilitated by SIOS infrastructure.

[2021] (PI) EUR3,000 – ENVRI User Story Competition Winner: Story from the fieldwork on Svalbard facilitated by SIOS infrastructure.

[2021] (PI) £1,951.13 – SAGES Postgraduate Support Scheme (PoGSS):: COVID19 Support.

[2021] (PI) £1,750 – SAGES International Collaboration Scheme (SICS): Developing high-resolution radar satellites for glaciology studies.

[2021] (PI) £2000 – Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Postgraduate Research Awards (Supported by the Geographical Club Award and Dudley Stamp Memorial Award): Measuring and monitoring glacier calving in Svalbard using a multi-sensor approach.

[2020] (PI) £500 – British Geophysical Association (BGA) Gray-Milne Travel Bursary: Mapping snow cover in the Scottish Highlands.

[2020] (PI) £2,500 – SAGES Small Grant Scheme (SSGS): Radar monitoring of Calving at Hansbreen.

[2020] (PI) £700 – University of St Andrews St Leonards Mobility Grant: Radar Monitoring of Calving at Hansbreen.

[2019] (PI) £7,184.60 – Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS): Radar monitoring of Calving at Hansbreen.

[2019] (PI) £2,500 – SAGES Small Grant Scheme (SSGS): Developing the use of mm-wave radar for 3D mapping of glaciers.

[2018] (Co-I) £63,900 – EPSRC and SAGES PhD Studentship:: The application of millimetre-wave radar to the study of the cryosphere. (Led by Dr Duncan A. Robertson, University of St Andrews)