Community Connect
Alexander Robel
SDG's
Climate action
Life on land
Life below water
Research Interests
Climate, Oceanography, and Weather, Cryospheric Science, Paleoclimate Solid, Earth Sciences
Partnership Types
Collaborative Partnerships
Community-Led Research
About
Alex’s expertise in climate change focuses on how changes in climate effect ice sheets, glaciers and sea levels.
Alex Robel is a leading expert in the fields of climate change and glaciology. As a researcher who combines physics, applied mathematics, and earth and ocean sciences, Robel and his team are focused on understanding how climate changes are impacting Earth’s largest ice sheets and glaciers. He is helping to develop mathematical models that provide insight into how fast ice is melting and how fast oceans are rising. Robel grew up in Miami and is passionate about using this data to help coastal communities –particularly in the southeastern U.S. and Atlantic seaboard– prepare for and adapt to rising sea levels and other concerns.
In our group, we use math, high-performance computing, and data (big, medium and small in size). We develop models, from simple to complex, in order to explain the changes we observe and to simulate those that may occur in the future. We use ideas from dynamical systems theory, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics, and scientific computing to study the cryosphere. We also work with a talented cast of collaborators who work on, within, and under ice sheets and use state-of-the-art platforms such as satellites, aircraft, and drones to measure ice sheet changes.
The Stochastic Ice Sheet Project (StISP)
NSF/CRA
Atlanta, Georgia
Research Collabration
Oceanography