Philipp S. Arndt

Philipp S. Arndt

he/him

I use satellite remote sensing and geospatial data analysis to produce actionable insights into how our planet is changing.

Talks and presentations

Supraglacial Lakes across Greenland and Antarctica - New Insights from Five Years of ICESat-2 Meltwater Depth Measurements.

October 02, 2023

Oral Lightning Talk and Poster Presentation, NASA ICESat-2 Science Team Meeting, La Jolla, CA, USA

During the science team meeting of NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite altimetry mission, I presented preliminary results from aggregating five years of supraglacial melt lake depth measurements on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. My lightning talk and poster were mostly based on an oral presentation I had given at the WAIS workshop the week before.

ICESat-2 Measurements of Supraglacial Lake Depths Across the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets 2018-2023.

September 08, 2023

Oral Conference Presentation, 2023 West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative Workshop, Cloquet, MN, USA

I applied an algorithm for automated detection and depth determination of supraglacial lakes on the ice sheets in ICESat-2 photon point clouds to all available data granules using distributed High-Throughput Computing on the Open Science Grid’s Open Science Pool. I presented preliminary results based on the >20,000 lakes that I discovered in the data.

Interactive Data Visualization with Open Altimetry & Contextualization of ICESat-2 Photon Data using Sentinel-2 Cloud Masking in Google Earth Engine.

August 09, 2023

Interactive Coding Tutorial, University of Washington eScience ICESat-2 Cloud Computing Hackweek, Seattle, WA, USA

As part of the 2023 UW eScience ICESat-2 Cloud Computing Hackweek Organizing Team, I developed and lead an interactive Jupyter-based tutorial on Contextualization of ICESat-2 Photon Data using Sentinel-2 Cloud Masking in Google Earth Engine, and helped developing tutorials on using ICESat-2 data for snow depth and shallow bathymetry retrievals. I also helped participants with any computing issues during the event, which was held from 7 to 11 August in Seattle.

We Skied Southern California To Show that Mountain Snowpack Can Be Measured from Space.

June 20, 2023

Poster Presentation and Panel Discussion, Scripps Fellowship Luncheon, La Jolla, CA, USA

I gave a non-technical account of my ski-based ground validation campaign for evaluating the feasibility of space-based snowpack depth measurement with ICESat-2. This was given to private donors who had supported my PhD work, as part of the Scripps Fellowship Luncheon, and included a combination of an oral talk, a poster and a panel discussion.