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Kirk Scanlan

@kirkscanlan.bsky.social
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By day, using radar remote sensing to study icy surfaces at DTU Space. Rest of my time spent reading, walking my dog, hiking, running, camping, climbing, ice hockey, and board games. Views are my own.

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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Last week, our @kirkscanlan.bsky.social attended the @igsoc.bsky.social #Radioglaciology symposium in Tübingen 🇩🇪 Here he presented some the great work coming out of the @esaearth.esa.int #ARCTEX project using 🛰️s to study extreme Arctic events 🤯 Overall a fantastic meeting with amazing research!
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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
At the @esa.int #PISCO and @snowpi.bsky.social hackathon last week, Anna, Kirk, and Tabea joined 30+ researchers from around the world to dig through gigabytes of #EO and climate model data to tackle some exciting polar questions ❄️ 🧊 Let's dig into a couple below👇
DTU Space team! Both Kirk and Tabea were mentors for two projects and Anna (in the middel) were a participant. Wanna know more about the project they did? Check out the following posts :) Not all time was spend coding. Some evenings were also spend enjoying the nice settings. Here you see Kirk, Kristiina (DMI) and Tabea enjoying a nice sunset overlooking the water.
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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New paper hot off the press in #IEEE JSTARS from our very own @kirkscanlan.bsky.social rkscanlan.bsky.social and @eo4cryo.bsky.social along with @anja-ruti.bsky.social l from #GEUS 🔥🔥 Find it here ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
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Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Greenland Firn From the Synthesis of Satellite Radar Altimetry and Passive Microwave Measurements
The spatiotemporal properties of the Greenland Ice Sheet firn layer are an important factor when assessing overall ice sheet mass balance and internal meltwater storage capacity. Increasingly a target...
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This was a super fun and challenging project to work on, trying to synthesise measurements from three different satellites 🛰️🛰️🛰️ over 10 years 🗓️ to make never-before-attempted observations. Big thanks to the @esaearth.esa.int Living Planet Fellowship for supporting this work 👏
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
In the paper we combine data from #ESA CryoSat-2 #ISRO/#CNES SARAL/AltiKa and #ESA SMOS to showcase how vertical density heterogeneity across the ice sheet changes through time and space. The firn layer plays a critical role storing meltwater and buffering sea level rise 🧊🌊
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
👀 A new study just out in #IEEE JSTARS from #GEUS @anja-ruti.bsky.social, @eo4cryo.bsky.social and I on studying heterogeneity in the #Greenland Ice Sheet firn layer from space 🤯 ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...
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Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity in Greenland Firn From the Synthesis of Satellite Radar Altimetry and Passive Microwave Measurements
The spatiotemporal properties of the Greenland Ice Sheet firn layer are an important factor when assessing overall ice sheet mass balance and internal meltwater storage capacity. Increasingly a target...
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Heading to #EGU26 and use #radar to study terrestrial and planetary surfaces (both icy and rocky 🤯)? Have we got the session for you! Consider submitting an abstract to #EGU26 CR6.3 by January 15 2026. Read more about the session here www.egu26.eu/session/56853 Hope to see you there!
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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It may be difficult for the untrained eye to see - but we were of course dressed in the colors of glaciers at last weeks Christmas party at DTU Space🧊❄️🎄
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Brand new website for the Cryo Group at DTU is now live! Thanks to @reneefredensborg.bsky.social for making us look so good 🤪 www.space.dtu.dk/english/rese...
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Cryosphere
In the Cryosphere Research Group at DTU Space, we monitor the recent and ongoing changes of the ice-covered regions of the Earth, including ice sheets and sea ice, using observations from satellites, aircraft and ground. During the past decades, satellites have observed a decline in sea ice and an increased mass loss of the Greenland ice sheet. Our research leads to an increasingly accurate understanding of these rapid changes, thus enabling society to mitigate climate change.
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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Congratulations to DJ Upside Down Turtle and DJ Disco Disc for their triumph in the inaugural Cryosphere Group Disc Golf Championship! 🥳🥳 A lovely afternoon spent with great colleagues and only "a few" discs had to be dug out of trees or fished out of water. Time to start practicing for next year 🙃
The winners!!
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
What a bonkers story 🤯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE
Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Congratulations and well-deserved!
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DTU Cryosphere group @dtucryo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Exciting news from our team to start the weekend! 🎉Our own eo4cryo.bsky.social has joined the Strategic Advisory Board for the EU’s #DestinationEarth initiative 🌍 Read more about the expectations for the initiative and @eo4cryo.bsky.social's role here: www.dtu.dk/english/news...
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DTU researcher joins EU Advisory Board to advance climate understanding
Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen, Senior Researcher at DTU Space, has been appointed to the EU Advisory Board for Destination Earth – an initiative developing a digital twin of the planet to improve und...
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
So exciting! Congrats to the @europaclipper.bsky.social and REASON teams. A huge milestone on the way out to Jupiter! www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars - NASA
The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
A big thanks to the @villumfonden.bsky.social Experiment Program and the @esaearth.esa.int Living Planet Fellowship Program for supporting this work!
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@anja-ruti.bsky.social @eo4cryo.bsky.social and our colleague Nicolaj from @dmidk.bsky.social did this by looking at how strongly radar signals bounced off the surface of the ice sheet. We then validated our results using a bunch of in situ measurements and compared against state-of-the-art models.
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
And why not one more while we're at it. Have you ever wondered how surface conditions across #Greenland change with time? Us too! Here we recovered 11 years of "surface" density changes from satellite altimetry. A whole new window into how Greenland is changing. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Novel insight into the spatiotemporal distribution of Greenland ice sheet surface densities from eleven years of satellite radar altimetry - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Novel insight into the spatiotemporal distribution of Greenland ice sheet surface densities from eleven years of satellite radar altimetry
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Kirk Scanlan @kirkscanlan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Better late than never. Big thanks to @anja-ruti.bsky.social and @eo4cryo.bsky.social for all their help as we try to unravel #Greenland Ice Sheet surface roughness from radar altimetry. Hat tip to the @esa.int Living Planet Fellowship program for supporting this work! doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...
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Greenland Ice Sheet surface roughness from Ku- and Ka-band radar altimetry surface echo strengths
Abstract. Surface roughness is an important factor to consider when modelling mass changes at the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) surface (i.e., surface mass balance, SMB). This is because it can have impo...
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