Dr. Alex Gardner from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, will discuss the major limitations in our ability to model glacier change and how radar technologies can be used to make progress in these areas. Alex is a Research Scientist that studies the Earth's cryosphere (frozen Earth) with a particular focus on glaciers and ice sheets and their impacts on sea level rise and water resources.
Alex has been a member of NASA's ICESat-2, NISAR, GRACE, Surface Topography and Vegetation, Surface Deformation and Change, and Sea Level Change Science Teams. He is also involved with many novel initiatives to measure ice on Earth, and elsewhere, including the use of snake-like robots (EELS) to look for life under Enceladus’ icy shell and the Deployable Antarctic SHeet Exploration Rovers (DASHER) to provide a mobile network of in-situ radar sensors for subsurface mapping.
