Ian Kelly

Affiliation with Antarctic Science Foundation

ASF Ambassador on Antarctica Flights 2022/23

“Traversing The Covid Gap” Grant Recipient 2022

PhD Thesis

The Ice-Rock Interface Beneath the Great Ice Sheets of East Antarctica Using Seismic Waveforms.

Biography

My research works toward modifying and developing a computational workflow to model seismic waves propagating through the ice-bedrock interface in the Antarctic environment. By doing so, I aim to better constrain the sensitivity of these structures and features to seismic signals and therefore help predict the expected data return from seismic surveys within the Antarctic interior. My project particularly focuses on the Aurora Basin and Knox Coast region of East Antarctica, where current geophysical observations are sparse and little is known within the deep subglacial basins. My research output will aim to inform upcoming field campaigns within the Denman-Scott area, optimizing the placement of new passive seismic instruments to monitor cryoseismic signals and map the subsurface structures.

Publication

Coming soon.