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Indrani Das

Lamont Assistant Research Professor

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Marine Geology and Geophysics

108A Oceanography

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

NY

10965-8000

US

Phone: 

(845) 365-8334

Fax: 

(845) 365-8156

indrani@ldeo.columbia.edu

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CV: 

IndraniDas_CV.pdf

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Fields of interest: 

Mass balance of Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets, and mountain glaciers deep ice processes, Climate change and sea level rise. Airborne laser altimetry and ice penetrating radar, satellite remote sensing, surface energy and mass balance models, ice surface hydrology,dust and aerosols.

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

Ph.D (Physics)

Indian Space Research Organization (affiliation: Gujarat University, India)

2007

Lamont Projects:

GAMBIT: Gamburtsev Aerogeophysical Mapping Of Bedrock And Ice Targets

ICE Bridge

Polar Geophysics Group

ROSETTA: Decoding ice, ocean and tectonic mysteries of the Ross Ice Shelf

Research Blogs:

Arctic Thaw: Measuring Change

Referenced in the Following News Items:

U.S., UK Scientists Join to Study Possible Collapse of Massive Antarctic Glacier

Study Sees Powerful Winds Carving Away Antarctic Snow

Selected Publications:

Extreme wind-ice interaction over Recovery Ice Stream, East Antarctica Das, I; Scambos, T; Koenig, L; van den Broeke, M. R; Lenaerts, J; Geophysical Research Letters, 42(19), 8064-8071 (2015)

21st century increase in glacier mass loss in the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska, USA, from airborne laser altimetry and satellite stereo imagery Das, I; Hock, R; Berthier, E; Lingle, C; Journal of Glaciology, 60 (220), 283-293 (2014)

Influence of persistent wind scour on the surface mass balance of Antarctica Das, I; Bell, R; Scambos, T; Wolovick, M; Creyts, T; Studinger, M; Frearson, N; Nicolas, J; Lenaerts, J; van den Broeke, M. R; Nature Geoscience, 6, 367-371 (2013)