Rachel joined the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in May 2019. Her research focuses on using satellites to monitor changes in the global sea ice cover. Rachel's research has taken her on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), to conduct ground-based and airborne measurements for satellite validation.
Rachel Louise Tilling
(Associate Research Scientist)
| Email: | rachel.l.tilling@nasa.gov |
| Org Code: | 615 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 615 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK |
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Associate Research Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland - Greenbelt, MD, USA
2023 - Present
Assistant Research Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland - Greenbelt, MD, USA
2019 - 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University of Leeds - Leeds, UK
2016 - 2019
Education
2016 PhD Polar Remote Sensing
University College London, London, UK
2012 MSc Oceanography
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
2011 BSc Physics
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Awards
2018 Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists
Women In Aerospace (WIA) Europe
Young Professional Award
2016 International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) Early Career Scientist Prize
Publications
Refereed
2021. "Assessing CryoSat‐2 Antarctic Snow Freeboard Retrievals Using Data From ICESat‐2." Earth and Space Science 8 (7): [10.1029/2021ea001728] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Inter-comparison of snow depth over sea ice from multiple methods." The Cryosphere 15 345–367 [10.5194/tc-2020-65] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Summer Sea Ice From ICESat‐2." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (23): [10.1029/2020gl090644] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Estimating the sea ice floe size distribution using satellite altimetry: theory, climatology, and model comparison." The Cryosphere 13 (11): 2869-2885 [10.5194/tc-13-2869-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Assessing the Impact of Lead and Floe Sampling on Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Estimates from Envisat and CryoSat‐2." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 124 (11): 7473-7485 [10.1029/2019jc015232] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Extending the Arctic sea ice freeboard and sea level record with the Sentinel-3 radar altimeters." Advances in Space Research [10.1016/j.asr.2019.10.011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "New insight from CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness for sea ice modelling." The Cryosphere 13 (1): 125-139 [10.5194/tc-13-125-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Utilizing CryoSat-2 sea ice thickness to initialize a coupled ice-ocean modeling system." Advances in Space Research 62 (6): 1265-1280 [10.1016/j.asr.2017.12.030] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Recent multivariate changes in the North Atlantic climate system, with a focus on 2005-2016." International Journal of Climatology 38 (14): 5050-5076 [10.1002/joc.5815] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Estimating Arctic sea ice thickness and volume using CryoSat-2 radar altimeter data." Advances in Space Research 62 (6): 1203-1225 [10.1016/j.asr.2017.10.051] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "A Farewell to Ice." Underwater Technology 35 (1): 31-32 [10.3723/ut.35.031] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Radar observations of Arctic ice." Arcticness: Power and Voice from the North 27--39 [Article in Book]
2016. "Near-real-time Arctic sea ice thickness and volume from CryoSat-2." The Cryosphere 10 (5): 2003-2012 [10.5194/tc-10-2003-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Increased Arctic sea ice volume after anomalously low melting in 2013." Nature Geoscience 8 (8): 643-646 [10.1038/ngeo2489] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2020. "Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX): Concept Paper for NASA Aircraft Investigation." NASA Earth Science Project Office [Full Text] [Report]
2020. "Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interaction Experiment (ARCSIX): Concept Paper for NASA Aircraft Investigation." NASA Earth Science Project Office [Full Text] [Report]