Lu An (安璐) is an associate Professor (tenure track) in the College of Surveying and Geo-informatics at Tongji University, China. Her research interests are focused on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the Cryosphere, as well as reducing uncertainties in the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise using multiple satellite data.

Lu graduated from Nanjing University, China in 2011, with a major in Atmopsheric Science, and received a PhD in 2017 in Department of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine on “Bed topography of Greenland glaciers from high-resolution gravity data” supervised by Prof. Eric Rignot (NAS member).

Lu has been working on using high-resolution airborne gravity data combined with other datasets to infer the bathymetry of fjords and bed topography of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica to create datasets critical to understand the role of ice-ocean interaction in controlling the evolution of glaciers and ice sheets. During her postdoc at University of California, Irvine, she participated the NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission, trying to figure out how much of Greenland’s ice melt is caused by warming oceans.

Education

·Ph.D., Earth System Science  University of California, Irvine, USA          2017.12

·M.S., Earth System Science   University of California, Irvine, USA          2013.12

·B.S., Atmospheric Science     Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China              2011.6

Work

·Research Scientist                  Tongji University, Shanghai, China              2021.5-2022.2

·Postdoctoral Scholar              University of California, Irvine, USA           2018.1-2021.1

The primary interest of our group is to understand the interaction between ice and climate, in particular, how Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets respond to climate change. Ice sheets play a significant role in the climate system: they store large amounts of fresh water and are the conveyor belts for transporting snow that accumulates inland back into oceans. A better understanding of the processes driving these changes is critical to improving projections of future sea level rise.

Our research combines satellite remote sensing techniques (imaging radar interferometry, laser altimetry, optical imagery), airborne geophysical surveys (gravity, radar depth sounder), shipborne surveys (multibeam echo sounding, conductivity temperature depth profiles), and field surveys (ground portable radar interferometer, GPS) and numerical modeling (ice sheet models and ocean models).

I am seeking outstanding graduate students who are interested in working on ice sheet modeling、ice-ocean interactions and marine ice sheet instabilities to start in Fall 2023. A solid background in math、physics and programming is preferred.

If interested, please send me an email (anlu2021@tongji.edu.cn) with a brief description of your research interests and background.

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