Cryosphere Group

The Cryospheric Processes Laboratory laboratory is committed to studying the Cryosphere, with emphasis on ice and snow processes. We are located at the City College of New York, Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 160th Convent Av., Marshak Building, Room 927, New York, NY, USA. 

Interests

• Melting over the Greenland ice sheet from passive microwave sensors (check the updated 2009 trend)
• Surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet
• Cryoconite studies
• Combination of active and passive microwave data for SWE retrieval
• Maintenance and refinement of the NASA AMSR-E operational product
• Investigating glaciers in Greenland with visible/NIR satellite data
• Retrieval of snow grain size from MODIS
• Investigating supraglacial lakes in Greenland
• Melting in Antarctica and links to high-latitude and tropical climate variability

People

• Marco Tedesco, Director
• Nick Steiner, PhD candidate
• Gordon Green, PhD candidate, Consultant
• Gina Stovall, Undergrad
• Daniel Granovsky, Undergrad

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