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Dr. Michael James McCarthy
Function
Postdoc
Contact
+41 44 739 25 65
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Site
Birmensdorf Bi LG D 01
Current projects
- Estimating supraglacial debris thickness over High-Mountain Asia using region-wide elevation model differences
- Exploring the role of rock and debris-covered glaciers in the hydrologic system of the Chilean Andes
Curriculum vitae
Aug 2019 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019: Research Assistant, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Switzerland
Oct 2014 - Jul 2019: PhD Candidate, British Antarctic Survey, Scott Polar Research Institute (University of Cambridge), Cambridge
Aug 2010 - Oct 2014: Exploration Geologist, Stratex International Ltd, Ethiopia, Liberia, Senegal
Research interests
- Energy-balance modelling
- Glaciohydrological modelling
- Glacier remote sensing
- Supraglacial debris thickness estimation
- Debris-covered glaciers
- Ice- and ground-penetrating radar
Publications
Nicholson L, McCarthy M , Pritchard H, Willis I (2018). Supraglacial debris thickness variability: Impact on ablation, and relation to terrain properties. The Cryosphere, 12, 3719-3734
Rounce D, King O, McCarthy M , Shean D, Salerno F (2018). Quantifying the thickness of debris covered glaciers in the Everest region of Nepal through inversion of a sub-debris melt model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123, 1094-1115
McCarthy M , Pritchard H, Willis I, King E (2017). Ground penetrating radar measurements of debris thickness on Lirung Glacier, Nepal. Journal of Glaciology, 63 (239), 543-555