I’m off to the UK next week for a workshop at Sheffield University where we will discuss the Surface Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The ISMASS workshop includes all the main modelling groups and observation groups who are involved in assessing surface mass balance in Greenland. I will be representing DMI’s Greenland SMB work there (not an easy task condensing it down to a 20 minute talk!).
In the course of preparing my presentation I have been making plots and figures and really investigating some exciting results. Sadly, I very rarely get the chance to spend time on this these days and I am keen to recruit students to assist in this work. Should any potentially interested students want to discuss this at Sheffield do let me know.
At the risk of spoilers in my presentation, here for example is one showing how different ways of characterising the surface snow pack affects our estimates for surface mass balance, and how the effects of the specific changes can be very different in different years.
As I mentioned I rarely get enough time to analyse the output from our runs and I would be very happy to hear from any students who are interested in doing a project on our simulations. We have lots of MSc and Bachelors projects already listed on our website at DMI but we are always happy to hear new ideas from students on related topics. I have terabytes of data from simulations I would like to be properly analysed and this could be very interesting given we are talking about Greenland and the Arctic in the present day and in the future. It’s a really nice opportunity to work with some cutting edge research. I am also happy to hear from students who would like to do a summer project and for the right candidate I would be able to look into a paid “studentmedarbejderhjælper” position for a few months, especially if you are already a trained computer science candidate….
If you are an undergraduate looking into an MSc, I urge you to consider Denmark. EU citizens usually qualify for generous support grants (rare these days!) as we have a shortage of candidates wanting to study in the sciences in Copenhagen. The research and teaching are world class and done in English at MSc level. The possibilities for projects in Greenland are literally endless.
If you want any more details or to talk about any of the possibilities, do get in touch!
Sterna Paradisaea 