Publications

Will Harcourt’s full publication list, including conference contributions, can be found on Google Scholar.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Harcourt, W.D., Shahin, M.G., Stearns, L.A., Shankar, S. (2025). Structural weaknesses in ice mélange revealed by high resolution ICEYE SAR imagery, Journal of Glaciology, 71, e108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.10085.

Gajek, W., Luckman, A., Harcourt, W.D., Pearce, D.M., Hann, R. (2025). Utilizing seismic station internal GPS for tracking surging glacier sliding velocity, Journal of Glaciology, 71, e40. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.30.

Harcourt, W.D., Pearce, D.M., Gajek, W., Lovell, H., Luckman, A., Benn, D., Kohler, J., Kaab, A., Hann, R. (2025). Surging glaciers in Svalbard: Current knowledge and perspectives for monitoring (SvalSurge). In: Runge et al (eds) SESS report 2024, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, Longyearbyen. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14425522

Wallace, S., Durrant, A., Harcourt, W.D., Leontidis, G. (2025). Exploring Segment Anything Foundation Models for out of domain crevasse drone image segmentation, Proceedings of the 6th Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference (NLDL), PMLR 265, 255-268. doi: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v265/wallace25a.html

Harcourt, W.D., Robertson, D.A., Macfarlane, D.G., Rea, B.R., James, M.R., Diggins, M., Fyffe, B. (2024). Spatial and temporal variations in 94 GHz radar backscatter from a springtime snowpack, IEEE journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 18, 3611-3624. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3522583.

Svennevig, K., Hicks, S.P., Forbriger, T., Lecocq, T., Widmer-Schnidrig, R., Mangeney, A., Hibert, C., Korsgaard, N.J., Lucas, A., Satriano, C., Anthony, R., Mordret, A., Schippkus, S., Rysgaard, S., Boone, W., Gibbons, S., Cook, K.L., Glimsdal, S., Løvholt, F., Van Noten, K., Assink, J.D., Marboeuf, A., Lomax, A., Vanneste, K., Taira, T., Spagnolo, M., De Plaen, R., Koelemeijer, P., Ebeling, C., Cannata, A., Harcourt, W.D., Cornwell, D.G., Caudron, C., Poli, P., Bernard, P., Larose, E., Stutzmann, E., Voss, P.H., Lund, B., Cannavo, F., Castro-D´ıaz, M.J., Chaves, E., Dahl-Jensen, T., De Pinho Dias, N., D´eprez, A., Develter, R., Dreger, D., Evers, L.G., Fern´andez-Nieto, E.D., Ferreira, A.M.G., Funning, G., Gabriel, A-A., Hendrickx, M., Kafka, A.L., Keiding, M., Kerby, J., Khan, S.A., Dideriksen, A.K., Lamb, O.D., Larsen, T.B., Lipovsky, B., Magdalena, I., Malet, J-P., Myrup, M., Rivera, L., Ruiz-Castillo, E., Wetter, S., Wirtz, B. (2024). A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang the Earth for 9 days, Science, 385, 1196-1205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adm9247.

Harcourt, W.D., Macfarlane, D.G., Robertson, D.A. (2024). 3D terrain mapping and filtering from coarse resolution data cubes extracted from real-aperture 94 GHz radar, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 60, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3353676.

Harcourt, W.D., Robertson, D.A., Macfarlane, D.G., Rea, B.R., Spagnolo, M. (2023). 94 GHz radar backscatter characteristics of Alpine glacier ice, Geophysical Research letters, 50, 2023GL104721, doi: 10.1029/2023GL104721.

Wanjiru, C., Nagelkerken, I., Rueckert, S., Harcourt, W.D., Huxham, M. (2023). Where to fish in the forest? Tree characteristics and contiguous seagrass features predict mangrove forest quality for fishes and crustaceans, Journal of Applied Ecology, 60, 1340-1351, doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14421.

Harcourt, W.D., Robertson, D.A., Macfarlane, D.G., Rea, B.R., Spagnolo, M., Benn, D.I., James, M.R. (2022). Glacier monitoring using real-aperture 94 GHz radar, Annals of Glaciology, 63. 116-120, doi: 10.1017/aog.2023.30.

Gutierrez, I., Gjermundsen, E.F., Harcourt, W.D., Kuschnerus, M., Tonion, F., Zieher, T. (2020). Analysis of filtering techniques for investigating landlside-induced changes in the Oetz Valley (Tyrol, Austria), ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, V-2-2020, 719-726, doi: 10.5194/isprs-annals-V-2-2020-719-2020.

Harcourt, W.D., Palmer, S.J., Mansell, D.T., Le Brocq, A., Bartlett, O., Gourmelen, N., Tepes, P., Dowdeswell, J.A., Blankenship, D.D., Young, D.A. (2020). Subglacial controls on dynamic thinning at Trinity-Wykeham Glacier, Prince of Wales Ice field, Canadian Arctic, Int. J. Remote Sens., 41, 1191-1213, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2019.1658238.

Harcourt, W.D., Briers, R.A., Huxham, M. (2018). The thin(ning) green line? Investigating changes in Kenya’s seagrass coverage, Biol. Lett., 14, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0227.