Robert Bindschadler
Robert Bindschadler is a retired glaciologist . He worked for NASA for 30 years , where he retired in 2010. At that time he was a senior scientist at the Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory and a Senior Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center . He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was President of the International Glaciological Society. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County .
His research areas are glaciers and ice sheets . He led 15 Antarctic field expeditions where he studied the dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet . During his career at NASA, he developed a number of unique remote sensing applications that could measure the height, speed, changes in ice volume and the rate of melting of glaciers. To do this, he used imaging methods based on both visible light and radar measurements. He testified several times before the US Congress, published over 140 scientific papers and is often quoted when it comes to the effects of global warming on ice sheets and glaciers. The Bindschadler Glacier and the Bindschadler Ice Stream were manned after him.
Web links
- Big Ice Sheets Doing Big Things: Why It's a Big Deal , lecture by Robert Bindschadler at the US Library of Congress
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- Robert Bindschadler's biography. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, accessed August 6, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Bindschadler, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American glaciologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |