*Mass balance of polar ice sheets
*Numerical modelling of ice sheets
*Paleoclimate from ice cores
*Sea level changes
*Climate Dynamics
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Former students since 2010:
Mirena de Olaizola (Msc) Recent uplift Greenland ice sheet
Harold Langen (Bsc) The contribution of outlet glaciers in Greenland to sea level rise
Wouter-Dirk Huitzing (Msc) Closure of sea level budget over the 20th century
Eveline v.d. Linden (Msc) Coupling Earth Dynamical models and ice sheet models
Joyce Bosmans (Msc) Velocity changes along the Greenland margin
Jeroen van Lent (Msc) Coupling EC-Earth to ice sheet model for Greenland
Marco Stoffelen (Bsc) Ice velocities of the West-Greenland ice Sheet
Karlijn Beers (Msc, VU) Past regional sea level variations from satellite altimetry
Rochus Kampen (Bsc) Ice velocities along the K-transect
Dirk van de Veek (Msc) Interaction between the thermohaline circulation and sea ice in Dansgaard-Oescgher cycles
Christiaan van Dalum (Bsc) Modelling glacial inception of Antarctica during the Eocene Oligocene boundary
Tom Peters (Bsc) Modelling SSA velocities in a flow line model
Alexander Gabriƫlse (Bsc) Modelling SSA velocities in a flow line model
Jori Hoencamp (Bsc) Modelling polar amplification over the past 5 million years
Sam Rijken (Bsc) Mid-Pleistocene transition
Ioannis Komis (Msc) A comparison of observed and modelled relative sea-level change over the satellite observational period 1993-2013
Sander Engelen (MsC, WUR) Relation between climate change and ice velocity along a transect on the western margin of the Greenland ice sheet
Niels Asberg (Bsc) Influence of wind patterns on mass balance and ice sheet evolution during the LGM in North America
Jan Bouke Pronk (Bsc) Modelling the impact of ice-sheets, carbon dioxide and orbital insolation on temperature over the past 5 million years
Eef van Dongen (Msc) Coupling approximation levels for marine ice sheet flow using Elmer/Ice
Adriaan de Groot (Bsc) Iceberg production on Antarctica
Bas van der Ploeg (Bsc) Global Assessment of ocean thermal energy coversion resources and potential sites for implementation
Emma Griffin (Bsc) Global glacier volume modelling
Jan Bouke Pronk (Bsc) Modelling the impact of ice-sheet, carbondioxide and orbital insolation on temperatures over the last 5 million years
Kyra Brakkee (Bsc) Improving the numerical solution of the SSA equation in an ice flow model
Marinka Elbertsen (Bsc) Analysis of the differences between climate forcing by CMIP5 and CMIP6 in a GlacierMIP model
Nout Sanders (Bsc) Sediment erosion as possible driver of the middle-pleistocene transition
Quinten Bohte (Bsc) Influence of the dynamic topography on the development of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene.
Sophie Hietbrink (Bsc) The contribution of small glaciers to sea level rise over the next 100 years
Isolde Glissenaar (Msc) Subsidence and relative sea level rise
Christos Tsitsikas (Msc) Regional sea level allowances along the world coast-line
Simon Brouwer (Msc) Implementing the Lazeroms parameterisation of ice mlet plumes in a marine ice sheet model
Annette van de Engel (Msc) The importance of regional ocean modelling for sea-level projections in the North-west Euopean shelf region
Iris Keizer (Msc) Sea-level rise acceleration along the Dutch coast