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Cryospheric Sciences

Leah Sophie Muhle

Leah Sophie Muhle is a PhD student at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She works on improving the inference of englacial temperature and basal reflectivity from radar measurements by coupling radar forward modelling with machine learning methods such as simulation-based inference. This could allow for a better characterization of the basal and thermal state of Antarctica’s ice sheet and improve projections of the ice sheet’s future evolution.

Feeling (un)frozen lands: What we can learn from research on ecological grief

and April 4, 2025
Light shines through the edge of melting ice on a rock.
Melting snow. [Credit: Steven Gibbons, distributed by imaggeo.egu.eu]

Retreating glaciers, shrinking sea ice or thawing permafrost – many of you might have witnessed formerly familiar landscapes being transformed by climate change over the last years, maybe even beyond recognition. And perhaps these undeniable changes have left you feeling sad, angry or anxious about the future, fearing what lies ahead. But did you know there is an entire academic field out there re ...[Read More]

Cryobook review: The Quickening

July 8, 2024
The cover of Elizabeth Rush's book
Cover of The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush. Credits: https://milkweed.org/book/the-quickening]

Even before its publication, my partner stumbled over the book The Quickening by Elizabeth Rush on Twitter and send it to me. In this book, Rush describes her journey to Thwaites Glacier and – as I was very curious about it – I bought it immediately after its release. It is not only documentary work about the journey, but also a meditation on responsibility, motherhood and life in a world of chang ...[Read More]