UCL DEPARTMENT OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS

• Mars

  • South Polar Cap landforms
  • Surface roughness

• Earth

  • Glaciers
  • Polar Caps
  • Surface roughness

• B.Sc. Physics, University of Manchester (2007)
• M.Sc. Environmental and Energy Engineering, University of Sheffield (2008)
• M.Sc. Polar & Alpine Change, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (2010)
• Ph.D Planetary Science, University College London (in progress)

"Mars surface roughness estimation from laser altimetry and high-resolution digital terrain models"

Supervisors: Prof. Jan-Peter Muller and Prof. Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College)

Surface roughness is a useful surface characteristic when considering landing site selection and dust lifting into the atmosphere, and can be calculated using various methods.  One theory suggests that surface roughness information is contained within the time-spread of the received pulse from laser altimetry, and can be extracted by accounting for other pulse-widening effects such as surface slope and instrumentation.

2011

• RSPSoc Student Meeting, Buxton (March)

I have swam with a 15 m shark... and survived