Recently European Space Agency announced new Living Planet Fellowship grants, one of the lucky ones is Bas Altena who will be awarded to conduct a postdoctoral research project. The main objective of this initiative of ESA is to support young researchers who have a doctoral degree and who would like to initiate a scientific career in the context of Earth Observation and Earth system science. Only 10 fellowships are awarded per call, while proposals are open for all ESA member states in any related field of research.
Satellites "view" climate changes on remote places
Altenas research project has the title; Short-term movements in the Cryosphere (ICEFLOW), and will be carried out in connection to Professor Andreas Max Kääb within the research project; ERC Advanced Grant 'Global Glacier Mass Continuity (ICEMASS)'.
Altena, on a research visit at the Institute of Low Temperature Science in Sapporo, when he got the good news says;
“There are many satellites taking imagery from space, but their potential is not yet exploited to its fullest extent. We aim in this project to bring remote sensing data of the cryosphere to an operational level, so imagery from space can be transformed to knowledge about hard-to-access places with a harsh climate, which are rapidly changing.”
Bas Altena is currently a researcher at the Section of Physical geography and Hydrology, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo. He had his disputation May 16 2018 at Department of Geosciences.
About the Copernicus-program
The Copernicus-program is an initiative from the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Its spaceborne element is composed of a suit of satellite missions called the Sentinels, which carry a range of technologies, such as radar and multi-spectral imaging instruments for land, ocean and atmospheric monitoring.
All acquired data from the Sentinels are freely available to the public.