About me:
I am a climate researcher focusing on where ice meets the ocean. I work as a postdoctoral research associate in glacial fjord modelling at the University of Edinburgh, where I investigate how Greenland's fjords transport, mix and store meltwater.
I carried out my PhD research at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University; my defence is in January 2027. During my PhD, I tried to answer the following questions:
- How does the water in a fjord move over a whole year? I studied a full year of measurements from a fjord in southwest Greenland. Using measurements of currents, temperature and salinity, I looked at how the circulation and heat transport towards the glaciers changes in a year. Article in JGR Oceans
- How much freshwater flows into Greenland's fjords, what is the source and when does it enter the fjord? And does this differ between regions of Greenland? I worked this out for the past and present, using climate model simulations that stay as close as possible to observations, and for future scenarios up to 2100. Article on past and present in The Cryosphere Preprint on the future, submitted to JGR Earth Surface
- What happens to the freshwater once it enters the fjord? A low-complexity fjord model (FjordRPM) can answer that for every moment in time. For Ameralik, a fjord where meltwater from a glacier arrives via a river, we simulated two years and investigated why the amount of freshwater in the fjord keeps increasing even after the melt peaked.