Mariapina Vomero - PhD Candidate
Meet Mariapina
Mariapina is a second-year PhD student at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, and her research aims at improving the current understanding of supraglacial hydrology and its effects on the stability of floating ice sheets around the Antarctic continent.
Biography
Pina graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Automation Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) in 2017. Following this, in 2019 she completed a joint European Master's Program in Space Science and Technology at the Luleå University of Technology – Kiruna Space Campus (Sweden). During my time in Sweden became fascinated by the icy landscapes around her and wanted to contribute to their preservation by specialising in monitoring technologies such as satellite remote sensing.
For her Master’s thesis, she carried out a research project at the University of Tokyo to detect sea ice leads formation in the Arctic from space. In the following year, she worked again at UTokyo, studying the land-fast ice in the Canadian Arctic using SAR observations from Sentinel-1 to assess its different stability regimes. She commenced her PhD at IMAS in 2022, where she is developing new techniques to detect supraglacial meltwater and its impact on Antarctic Ice shelves based on a combination of different datasets, including SAR imagery.
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Selected Publication:
Mariapina Vomero, Sarah Thompson, Sue Cook, and Bernd Kulessa, Detection of lake drainage events in Antarctica from SAR imagery, March 2023, EGU General Assembly 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10614