PhD in Biology-Earth Science

The PhD project aims to understand how the Riiser-Larsen ice shelf and neighbouring ice shelves in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, are changing in response to ocean and atmosphere warming. The project will analyse structural and mass changes on inter-annual to decadal time scales using advanced satellite methods such as altimetry and interferometry. Automation using programming and machine learning is expected due to large data volumes. The project is part of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat’s Antarctic research theme iQ2300 led by Stockholm University, will use data from field expeditions and remote sensing, is based at Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden), includes close collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and is financed by the Swedish National Space Agency.