NASA Research Opportunities for Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) Grant Received
Ph.D. candidate Mike MacFerrin, along with his adviser Dr. Waleed Abdalati and collaborators at the University of Washington, received notice of a NASA award for MacFerrin's proposal "Quantifying Firn Compaction and its Implications for Altimetry-based Mass Balance Estimates of the Greenland Ice Sheet." The project (3-years, $733,000) will complete MacFerrin's PhD work and fund a post-doctoral research position in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), leading field campaigns across the Greenland ice sheet for the next several years.