Research Background

2022-present: Research Scientist. Scientific assistant for SPI Flagship 'PAMIR: From ice to microorganisms and humans: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of climate change impacts on the Third Pole', PIs Francesca Pellicciotti and Martin Hoelzle, WSL

2018-2021: Postdoctoral researcher. ERC project RAVEN: Rapid loss of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia, PI Francesca Pellicciotti, WSL

2017-2018: Research Fellow. NERC project 'EverDrill: Accessing the interior and bed of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier to forecast future mass loss'; PIs Duncan Quincey, Bryn Hubbard, and Ann Rowan, University of Leeds

2012-2016: PhD Candidate. Gates Cambridge Scholarship: 'Spatio-temporal variability and energy-balance implications of surface ponds on Himalayan debris-covered glaciers', Supervisors Ian Willis and Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute; University of Cambridge

2011-2012: Research assistant. Remote sensing and climate downscaling for global glacier chenge projections. Supervisors Garry Clarke and Valentina Radic, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

  • Glacier surface mass balance
  • Glacier hydrology
  • Glacierized catchment hydrology and meteorology
  • Big data remote sensing
  • Debris-covered glaciers

 

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Projekte

This project will systematically collect the measurements of physical properties needed to constrain the a new generation of debris thickness inversion methods, enabling high-accuracy global estimates of supraglacial debris thickness and its rate of change.

As the climate continues to change, Switzerland edges closer to a future in which extreme drought in the Alps is increasingly likely – and could push water and ecological systems to their limits. The EMERGE project studies past extreme droughts in mountain regions to help us better understand, and prepare for, potential impacts in the future.

Supraglacial debris considerably alters the response of glaciers to changes in climate, yet debris-covered glaciers are notoriously difficult to delineate due to their fuzzy boundaries and spectral similarities to marginal moraines. Their surfaces are often characterized by supraglacial ponds and ex

One of the most important questions of climate change impact research today is how glaciers are responding to global warming. ERC-funded, RAVEN aims to determine the role that debris-covered glaciers play in the water cycle of High Mountain Asia and better incorporate processes unique to debris-cove

Publikationen

Zemp M., Jakob L., Dussaillant I., Nussbaumer S.U., Gourmelen N., Dubber S., … Miles E. (2025) Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature. 5835 (23 pp.). doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z Institutional Repository DORA

Buri P., Fatichi S., Shaw T.E., Fyffe C.L., Miles E.S., McCarthy M.J., … Pellicciotti F. (2024) Land surface modeling informed by earth observation data: toward understanding blue–green–white water fluxes in High Mountain Asia. Geo-spatial Inf. Sci. 27(3), 703-727. doi:10.1080/10095020.2024.2330546 Institutional Repository DORA

Fugger S., Shaw T.E., Jouberton A., Miles E.S., Buri P., McCarthy M., … Pellicciotti F. (2024) Hydrological regimes and evaporative flux partitioning at the climatic ends of high mountain Asia. Environ. Res. Lett. 19(4), 044057 (12 pp.). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ad25a0 Institutional Repository DORA

Kneib M., Dehecq A., Gilbert A., Basset A., Miles E.S., Jouvet G., … Six D. (2024) Distributed surface mass balance of an avalanche-fed glacier. Cryosphere. 18(12), 5965-5983. doi:10.5194/tc-18-5965-2024 Institutional Repository DORA

Ren S., Yao T., Yang W., Miles E.S., Zhao H., Zhu M., Li S. (2024) Changes in glacier surface temperature across the Third Pole from 2000 to 2021. Remote Sens. Environ. 305, 114076 (15 pp.). doi:10.1016/j.rse.2024.114076 Institutional Repository DORA

Ren S., Jia L., Miles E.S., Menenti M., Kneib M., Shaw T.E., … Yao T. (2024) Observed and projected declines in glacier albedo across the Third Pole in the 21st century. One Earth. 7(9), 1587-1599. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2024.08.010 Institutional Repository DORA

Shaw T.E., Buri P., McCarthy M., Miles E.S., Pellicciotti F. (2024) Local controls on near-surface glacier cooling under warm atmospheric conditions. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmos. 129(2), e2023JD040214 (20 pp.). doi:10.1029/2023JD040214 Institutional Repository DORA

Buri P., Fatichi S., Shaw T.E., Miles E.S., McCarthy M.J., Fyffe C.L., … Pellicciotti F. (2023) Land surface modeling in the Himalayas: on the importance of evaporative fluxes for the water balance of a high-elevation catchment. Water Resour. Res. 59(10), e2022WR033841 (30 pp.). doi:10.1029/2022WR033841 Institutional Repository DORA

Jouberton A., Miles E.S., Shaw T.E., McCarthy M., Fugger S., Pellicciotti F. (2023) Reply to Yang et al.: global warming and black carbon simultaneously lead to glacier mass decline over the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 120(12), e2301467120 (2 pp.). doi:10.1073/pnas.2301467120 Institutional Repository DORA

Kirkbride M.P., Sherriff S.C., Rowan A.V., Egholm D.L., Quincey D.J., Miles E., … Miles K. (2023) Provenance and transport of supraglacial debris revealed by variations in debris geochemistry on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalaya. Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 48(14), 2737-2753. doi:10.1002/esp.5657 Institutional Repository DORA

Kneib M., Fyffe C.L., Miles E.S., Lindemann S., Shaw T.E., Buri P., … Pellicciotti F. (2023) Controls on ice cliff distribution and characteristics on debris-covered glaciers. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50(6), e2022GL102444 (11 pp.). doi:10.1029/2022GL102444 Institutional Repository DORA

Miles K.E., Hubbard B., Miles E.S., Quincey D.J., Rowan A.V. (2023) Internal structure of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier revealed by borehole optical televiewing. J. Glaciol. 69(276), 811-822. doi:10.1017/jog.2022.100 Institutional Repository DORA

Salerno F., Guyennon N., Yang K., Shaw T.E., Lin C., Colombo N., … Pellicciotti F. (2023) Local cooling and drying induced by Himalayan glaciers under global warming. Nat. Geosci. 16(12), 1120-1127. doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01331-y Institutional Repository DORA

Shaw T.E., Buri P., McCarthy M., Miles E.S., Ayala Á., Pellicciotti F. (2023) The decaying near‐surface boundary layer of a retreating Alpine glacier. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50(11), e2023GL103043 (12 pp.). doi:10.1029/2023GL103043 Institutional Repository DORA

Zhao C., Yang W., Miles E., Westoby M., Kneib M., Wang Y., … Pellicciotti F. (2023) Thinning and surface mass balance patterns of two neighbouring debris-covered glaciers in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Cryosphere. 17(9), 3895-3913. doi:10.5194/tc-17-3895-2023 Institutional Repository DORA

Bharucha Z.P., Ahmad B., Appadurai A.N., Bolch T., Dimri A.P., Dixon H., … Wester P. (2022) Climate and water in the Upper Indus Basin. An urgent new research agenda. Kathmandu: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). 10 p. Institutional Repository DORA

Compagno L., Huss M., Zekollari H., Miles E.S., Farinotti D. (2022) Future growth and decline of high mountain Asia's ice-dammed lakes and associated risk. Commun. Earth Environ. 3, 191 (9 pp.). doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00520-8 Institutional Repository DORA

Compagno L., Huss M., Miles E.S., McCarthy M.J., Zekollari H., Dehecq A., … Farinotti D. (2022) Modelling supraglacial debris-cover evolution from the single-glacier to the regional scale: an application to High Mountain Asia. Cryosphere. 16(5), 1697-1718. doi:10.5194/tc-16-1697-2022 Institutional Repository DORA

Fugger S., Fyffe C.L., Fatichi S., Miles E., McCarthy M., Shaw T.E., … Pellicciotti F. (2022) Understanding monsoon controls on the energy and mass balance of glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalaya. Cryosphere. 16(5), 1631-1652. doi:10.5194/tc-16-1631-2022 Institutional Repository DORA

Jouberton A., Shaw T.E., Miles E., McCarthy M., Fugger S., Ren S., … Pellicciotti F. (2022) Warming-induced monsoon precipitation phase change intensifies glacier mass loss in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119(37), e2109796119 (7 pp.). doi:10.1073/pnas.2109796119 Institutional Repository DORA

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