[ES_JOBS_NET] Masters position in glaciology & remote sensing at UMaine

[Ellyn Enderlin]

The UMaine Glaciology and CompuMAINE labs are looking for an
interdisciplinary Masters student who will assist in the NASA-funded
project “Quantification and Analysis of Greenland Glacier and Ice Cap
Discharge using Automated Landsat Terminus Change Time Series and NASA Data
Products” starting in Fall 2018 (or later). This is a joint project led by
Dr. Ellyn Enderlin from the Climate Change Institute and School of Earth
and Climate Sciences (https://sites.google.com/site/ellynenderlin/) and Dr.
Andre Khalil, founder and director of the CompuMAINE Lab.

The overall aim of the proposed project is to quantify dynamic mass loss
from Greenland’s peripheral glaciers and ice caps (GICs) over the last two
decades and to assess variations in their ice discharge with respect to
atmospheric and oceanic forcing. Two questions guide this work:
1)    Has terminus retreat and/or ice flow acceleration substantially
contributed to mass loss from Greenland’s GICs over the last two decades?
2)    Do spatial and temporal patterns in Greenland GIC dynamics differ
from the ice sheet’s outlet glaciers due to differences in their
sensitivity to atmospheric and oceanic forcing?

The CompuMAINE Lab (Computational Modeling, Analysis of Imagery, and
Numerical Experiments) is an image and signal processing, analysis, and
modeling laboratory located at the University of Maine flagship campus in
Orono. The CompuMAINE lab is collaborating with the Enderlin lab to develop
an automated satellite image analysis procedure to help answer the
questions above. The graduate student will be expected to lead the
numerical analyses under the co-mentoring of Drs. Enderlin and Khalil. The
graduate student will also be expected to present the results of his/her
analysis at relevant scientific meetings (for which travel funds are
available) and assist with manuscript preparation.

A full stipend, tuition waiver, and health insurance coverage are
available, for two years.

Please contact Dr. Ellyn Enderlin (ellyn.enderlin at gmail.com) or Dr. Andre
Khalil (andre.khalil at maine.edu) if you are interested in learning more
about this graduate opportunity. I look forward to hearing from you!
Ellyn

-- 
Ellyn M Enderlin, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Climate Change Institute &
School of Earth and Climate Sciences
University of Maine
Orono, ME  04469
https://sites.google.com/site/ellynenderlin/
https://twitter.com/glacier_doc
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