At the International Symposium on Glaciology in High Mountain Asia in Kathmandu last week Philip’s talk about the multi-temporal monitoring of debris-covered glaciers using unmanned aerial vehicles was awarded “best oral presentation by a student”. He received the award during the banquet from Andrew Mackintosh.
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From 1-6 March the Symposium on Glaciology in High Mountain Asia (HMA) was held at the Yak & Yeti in Kathmandu, Nepal. Attendees from our research team were Joe Shea, Patrick Wagnon, Walter Immerzeel, Francesca Pellicciotti, Emily Collier, Pascal Buri, Evan Miles and Philip Kraaijenbrink. The great gathering of glaciologists […]
The following paper is now available online: Ragettli, S., Pellicciotti, F., Immerzeel, W., Miles, E., Petersen, L., Heynen, M., Shea, J., Stumm, D., Joshi, S., Shrestha, A. (2015). Unraveling the hydrology of a Himalayan catchment through integration of high resolution in situ data and remote sensing with an advanced simulation […]
A time lapse video of the retreat of Fox Glacier and the accompanying slope failures has been put online by Brian Anderson. Article about the video on the landslide blog
GlacierHub featured an item about the UAV workshop in Kathmandu and the UAV studies performed by us in Nepal.
Utrecht University together with ICIMOD, FutureWater and Kathmandu University organized a successful workshop in Kathmandu titled “Glacier monitoring in the Himalayas using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” . In the morning a broad overview was presented of potential applications of UAVs in different fields with a particular focus on glaciological applications. In […]
UAV manufacturer senseFly from Switzerland uses our Lirung Glacier UAV study that was performed using their Swinglet CAM UAV as a case study to promote scientific use of their drones. Currently a glossy article is available and soon there will be an addition to their website as well.
Science has posted a news item on their website about our research on debris-covered glaciers, following from this upcoming publication: Pellicciotti, F., Stephan, C., Miles, E., Immerzeel, W. W., & Bolch, T. (2015). Mass changes of the debris-covered glaciers in Langtang Himal 1974-2000 revealed by Hexagon and SRTM data, Journal of Glaciology, […]
The shorter, Dutch version of the Langtang research documentary created for NTR school television is available online.