BRUCE H. RAUP, Associate Scientist III

National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado

Phone: +1 (303) 492-8814

449 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0449

E-mail:

C.V. Revision: 2009-02-25

http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS

Glacier dynamics and mass balance, and application of remote sensing techniques to their study. Primary designer and curator of the GLIMS Glacier Database and the GLIMS Web site.

EDUCATION

Autumn 1995

M.Sc., Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder. Thesis: Implementation of Inter-Element Stress Coupling in a Finite Element Glacier Flow Model

1987--1988

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan

Spring 1987

B.S., Engineering Physics, Washington University in St. Louis

WORK EXPERIENCE

Oct. 1999 -- present

Associate Scientist, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, U. of Colorado, Boulder

Sept. 1995 -- Sept. 1999

Remote Sensing Research Specialist, U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona

Sept. 1992 -- Dec. 1995

Graduate Research Assistant in Glaciology, University of Colorado

Sept. 1988 -- June 1992

Software/Electronics Engineer, Micro Encoder, Inc., Kirkland, Washington

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of American Geophysical Union and International Glaciological Society.

AWARDS

1989

Mitutoyo Engineering Excellence Award

1987

Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study

RELEVANT SKILLS

Operation Systems:

Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows, DOS

Programming:

C, C++/Qt, Perl (DBI), UNIX Shell, SQL, IDL, Octave (Open-Source 'Matlab'), R (Open-Source 'S', a statistical programming environment)

Web:

Perl CGI programming, HTML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, MapServer, OpenLayers

GIS:

GDAL/OGR, OpenEV, PostGIS, GMT (Generic Mapping Tools), QGIS, GRASS

Image Processing:

IDL, ENVI, GMT, GRASS, GDAL, GIMP

Miscellaneous:

Fluent in spoken and written Japanese

Editorial Duties

Guest editor, Global and Planetary Change, Volume 56, Issues 1-2.

Scientific Editor for Annals of Glaciology, Volume 53.

Community Service

Have reviewed articles for: Remote Sensing of Environment; Journal of Glaciology; Annals of Glaciology; Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research; Polar Geography; book chapters; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; Geophysical Research Letters; Journal of Geophysical Research.

Serve as Science Fair judge annually.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Berthier, Etienne, Bruce Raup, and Ted Scambos (2003). "New velocity map and mass balance of the Mertz Glacier derived from Landsat sequential imagery." Journal of Glaciology, 49(167) 503--511 .

Bishop, M.P., J. Kargel, H. Kieffer, D.J. MacKinnon, B.H. Raup, and J.F.~Shroder (2000). "Remote Sensing Science and Technology for Studying Glacier Processes in High Asia." Annals of Glaciology 31:164--170.

Bishop, M.P., J.A. Olsenholler, J.F. Shroder, R.B. Barry, B.H. Raup, A.B.G. Bush, L. Copland, J.L. Dwyer, A.G. Fountain, W. Haeberli, A. Kaab, F. Paul, D.K. Hall, J.S. Kargel, B.F. Molnia, D.C. Trabant, and R. Wessels (2004). "Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS): Remote Sensing and GIS Investigations of the Earth's Cryosphere." Geocarto International 19.

Clark, M., D. Slater, T. Painter, W. Meier, J. Stroeve, A. Barrett, B. Raup, and M. Serreze (2006). "Scientific and Societal Uses of Remotely Sensed Snow and Ice Information". Aswathanarayana, U. and R. Balaji, Ed. Applications of Remote Sensing Data Products. AGU Monograph.

Goodison, B., R.D. Brown, R.G. Crane (coordinators) with contributions from R.B. Alley, D. Barber, R. Barry, C. Bentley, T. Carrol, D. Cline, C.R. Duguay, G.M. Flato, D.K. Hall, R. Harrington, H.H. Kieffer, S. Munro, C. Parkinson, B.H. Raup, A. Rothrock, and M. Sharp (1999). "Chap. 6: Cryospheric Systems". Eos Science Implementation Plan.

Kääb, A., M. Chiarle, B. Raup, and C. Schneider (2007). " Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers and Permafrost (Editorial)." Global and Planetary Change 56:vii--ix.

Kargel, Jeffrey S., Hugh H. Kieffer, Roger Barry, Michael Bishop, David MacKinnon, Bruce Raup, Jack Shroder, Greg Scharfen, and Vince Troisi (2000a). "Worldwide Glacier Observations Planned by ASTER." Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union 81:S143.

Kargel, Jeffrey S. and 16 others (2005). "Multispectral Imaging Contributions to Global Land Ice Measurements from Space." Remote Sensing of Environment 99:187--219.

Khalsa, S.J.S., M.B. Dyurgerov, T. Khromova, B.H. Raup, and R.G. Barry (2004). "Space-based mapping of glacier changes using ASTER and GIS tools." IEEE Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing 42:2177—2182.

Lemke, P., J. Ren, R.B. Alley, I. Allison, J. Carrasco, G. Flato, Y. Fujii, G. Kaser, P. Mote, R.H. Thomas and T. Zhang, 2007: Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. (contributing author)

Nolin, Anne, Bruce Raup, Julienne Stroeve, and Ted Scambos (2001a). "Mapping Snow Grain Size and Albedo on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using an Imaging Spectrometer." Eos Transactions, supplement 82:F532.

Pfeffer, W. T., M. Dyurgerov, M. Kaplan, J. Dwyer, C. Sassolas, A. Jennings, B. Raup, and W. Manley (1997). "Numerical modeling of late Glacial Laurentide advance of ice across Hudson Strait: Insights into terrestrial and marine geology, mass balance, and calving flux." Palaeoceanography 12:97—110.

Rau, Frank, Jeffrey S. Kargel, and Bruce H. Raup (2006). "The GLIMS Glacier Inventory of the Antarctic Peninsula." Earth Observer 18:9--11.

Raup, Bruce H., Hugh H. Kieffer, Trent M. Hare, and Jeffrey S. Kargel (2000). "Generation of Data Acquisition Requests for the ASTER Satellite Instrument for Monitoring a Globally Distributed Target: Glaciers." IEEE Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing 38:1105--1112.

Raup, Bruce, Richard Armstrong, Greg Scharfen, SJS Khalsa, I-Pin Wang, and Roger G. Barry (2003c). "Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Database at NSIDC." Eos Transactions, supplement 84:.

Raup, B., S.J.S. Khalsa, R. Armstrong, F. Cawkwell, C. Georges, G. Hamilton, W. Sneed Jr., and R. Wheate (2004c). "Comparative Image Analysis to Ensure Data Quality in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Glacier Database." Eos Transactions, supplement, abstract H23D-1151 85:47.

Raup, Bruce H., Ted A. Scambos, and Terry Haran (2005). "Topography of Streaklines on an Antarctic Ice Shelf From Photoclinometry Applied to a Single Advanced Land Imager (ALI) Image." IEEE Transactions On Geoscience and Remote Sensing 43:736—742.

Raup, B., S.J.S. Khalsa, and R. Armstrong (2006). "Creating improved ASTER DEMs over glacierized terrain." Eos Transactions, AGU, abstract C41A-0305 87:52.

Raup, B.R., A. Racoviteanu, S.J.S. Khalsa, C. Helm, R. Armstrong, and Y. Arnaud (2007). "The GLIMS Geospatial Glacier Database: a new tool for studying glacier change." Global and Planetary Change, 56:101--110. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.07.018.

Raup, Bruce H., Andreas Kaab, Jeffrey S. Kargel, Michael P. Bishop, Gordon Hamilton, Ella Lee, Frank Paul, Frank Rau, Deborah Soltesz, Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa, Mathew Beedle, and Christopher Helm (2007). "Remote Sensing and GIS Technology in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Project." Computers and Geosciences, 33:104-125, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2006.05.015.

Scambos, T. A., M. A. Fahnestock, R. A. Bindschadler, and B.H. Raup (1994). "Ice Velocity Profile Across Ice Streams D and E at their Grounding Line", in Abstracts for the IGS Symposium on the Role of the Cryosphere in Global Change. Abstract number 133.

Scambos, Ted, Jennifer Bohlander, Bruce Raup, and Terry Haran (2004). "Glaciological Characteristics of Institute Ice Stream Using Remote Sensing." Antarctic Science 16:205--213.

Skvarca, P., B. Raup, and H. De Angelis (2003e). "Recent Behaviour of Glaciar Upsala, a Fast Flowing Calving Glacier in Lago Argentino, Southern Patagonia." Annals of Glaciology 36:184--188.