Phd_project

Last updated on Jan 8, 2026

During my PhD Project at the University Centre in Svalbard and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences I conducted research on the impact of ice impurities on the Greenland Ice Sheet. I used developed numerical models to investigate the impact of both dust and black carbon. I also develop a model to simulate impurity accumulation on the ice surface.

Greenland
Thomas Goelles
Thomas Goelles
Data & Software Engineer · Geo-Scientist

Data & software engineer and geo-scientist working on lidar, remote sensing, and production-ready data systems, following a PhD in glaciology.

Publications

Albedo reduction of ice caused by dust and black carbon accumulation: a model applied to the K-transect, West Greenland
Thomas Goelles, Carl Egede Bøggild
Cite Project DOI
Impurities of glacier ice: accumulation, transport and albedo
Thomas Goelles
Cite Project
Ice sheet mass loss caused by dust and black carbon accumulation
Thomas Goelles, Carl Egede Bøggild, Ralf Greve
Cite Project DOI
Semi-Lagrangian transport of oxygen isotopes in polythermal ice sheets: implementation and first results
Abstract Modelling the evolution of the Earth system on long timescales requires the knowledge and understanding of driving mechanisms, …
Thomas Goelles, Klaus Grosfeld, Gerrit Lohmann
Cite Project DOI