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Cryospheric Sciences

Monojit Saha

Monojit Saha is a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where his research focuses on improving remote sensing and geospatial techniques for monitoring the cryosphere. He holds an MSc from the University of Manitoba, where he first stepped onto Arctic sea ice during a field campaign in Churchill, Manitoba — an experience that fundamentally shaped the questions he now pursues. Since then, Monojit has been committed to developing community-centred remote sensing approaches that place the needs of Arctic communities at the centre of how satellite data products are designed, validated, and delivered.

The Arctic’s Blind Spot: Why Satellites Struggle Where Ice Meets the Coast

June 12, 2026
The Arctic’s Blind Spot: Why Satellites Struggle Where Ice Meets the Coast
Figure 1. My first time on sea ice - Churchill, Manitoba [Credit: Julienne Stroeve]

The first time I stood on sea ice, I could not tell which direction the coast was. A community member named Bryan could. That gap in situational awareness, between what a trained remote sensing scientist could read from the landscape and what a local hunter understood instinctively, turned out to mirror almost exactly the gap in our satellite data: ICESat-2 produces reliable freeboard across the c ...[Read More]