Open AccessHuss Receives 2013 Cryosphere Young Investigator Award: Citation
Author(s) -
Hock Regine,
Cogley Graham,
Rasmussen Al
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo280008
Subject(s) - glacier , cryosphere , glaciology , ice caps , geology , physical geography , meteorology , climatology , geomorphology , sea ice , geography , stratigraphy , paleontology , tectonics
Matthias Huss is an outstanding young glaciologist who completed his Ph.D. in 2009 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, and currently has a joint appointment there and at the University of Fribourg. During his short scientific career, Matthias has made substantial and innovative contributions to a broad range of topics in glaciology, including modeling and projection of glacier mass and runoff changes, glacier outburst floods, glacier dynamics, and climate‐glacier interactions. His work ranges from local‐scale to regional‐ and global‐scale studies. Of note, he developed a new cutting‐edge and already widely used parameterization to model glacier retreat, which fills the gap between complex ice flow models and simple scaling methods. He also computed ice thickness distribution maps of all 200,000 glaciers in the world based on principles of flow dynamics. This unique data set has many applications, of which perhaps the most significant is the estimation of the total volume of stored ice, a quantity that is critical for projections of sea level rise and water resources during the 21st century.