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Jonathan Bamber
CIRES Visiting Fellow
2008-2009

Jonathan Bamber

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK

Sponsor: Konrad Steffen

Theme: Climate System Variability

Project title: Constraining the Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Jonathan Bamber is a professor of physical geography at the University of Bristol, UK. His main interests are in polar glaciology and meteorology and, in particular, how the ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland will, and have been, responding to climate change. While at CIRES, he is working with colleagues on a range of problems related to determining the present-day mass balance of the ice sheets and the relative roles of surface processes versus ice dynamics. Bamber’s primary expertise lies in satellite and airborne microwave remote sensing observations of surface and basal topography, ice motion, and surface processes. His interests, however, are pretty broad and he is also currently working on regional climate modeling of Greenland and Svalbard, fingerprinting the sea level signature of ice sheet melt, and uncertainty analysis in climate modeling. He is enjoying his year of collaborations, discussions, and a few beers with colleagues at CU.

Office: Ekeley S250H
Email: jonathan.bamber@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-8695