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Member Since 2007
Nathan T. Kurtz
Physical Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Professional Experience
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Physical Scientist
2010 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2009
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2014
Current Roles
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
Publications
Assessing CryoSat‐2 Antarctic Snow Freeboard Retrievals Using Data From ICESat‐2
NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite‐2 (ICESat‐2) laser altimeter launched in Fall 2018, providing an invaluable addition to...
July 23, 2021
The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge
June 21, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Analysis of Arctic summer sea ice heights to validate ICESat-2 measurements with airborne lidar technology.
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
high latitude environments | 19 february 2024
Kutalmis Saylam, Aaron Averett, John R. Andrews, N...
In 2022, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) researchers participated in an airborne d...
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Estimating Differential Penetration of Green (532 nm) Laser Light Over Sea Ice With NASA’s Airborne Topographic Mapper: Observations and Models
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS: THREE DECADES OF INNOVATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION II ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Michael Studinger, Benjamin E. Smith, Nathan T. Ku...
Differential penetration of green laser light into snow and ice has long been considered a possible cause of range and thus elevation bias in laser al...
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Improving ICESat-2 summer melt pond detection and handling using insights from coincident airborne lidar and imagery data
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS: THREE DECADES OF INNOVATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION II ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Mia Vanderwilt, Rachel Tilling, Nathan T. Kurtz
Melt ponds occurring on summer sea ice appear variously in satellite lidar retrievals, inconsistently biasing altimetry-based estimates of sea ice hei...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
2023 - 2024
Member
Cryosphere At-Large Committee
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