Department
Earth and Space Sciences
Organization
University of Washington
Email
edw@uw.edu
Phone
206-543-4585
Address
Box 351310
Seattle , Washington 98195United StatesBioPhD 1982 University of British Columbia.
Faculty member in various capacities at University of Washington since 1985.

Interests

Land Ice/Glaciers

Science Specialties

glaciology, climate change, ice sheet geophysics, firn physics

Current Research

-I use ice-core data (e.g. depth-age) and geophysical data (e.g. ice-penetrating radar sections, ice-motion measurements, and borehole-temperature measurements) together with models of ice-sheet flow and temperature evolution, to infer properties of past climate such as accumulation rate, and temperature.
- I also work with polar-firn measurements and compaction models, with the goal of creating and calibrating a new transient model based more closely on the physics of microstructural processes and properties.