EORC TALK – Talk at the Earth Observation Research Cluster

Associate Professor Benjamin Robsons’ research focuses on using remote sensing (RS) datasets to characterize and identify landforms, such as debris-covered glaciers and rock glaciers, and to assess decadal-scale changes. He uses various RS techniques, including object-based image analysis (OBIA), deep learning and machine learning, photogrammetry and topographic analysis, structure from motion (SfM), LiDAR, and time-series analysis. His work spatially concentrates on areas in the Nepali Himalayas, the semi-arid Andes, the European Alps, the Norwegian mainland, and the Tien Shan mountains. Benjamin Robson is also an affiliated external Mountain Cryosphere Research Group member at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Jostein Bakke holds a position as a Professor at the Department of Earth Science and is a member of the Quaternary Research Group, the director of the Centre for Integrated Earth Science Education (iEarth), and the leader of EARTHLAB. His research focuses on quaternary geology, physical geography, glacial history, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, and lake sediments worldwide. He is involved in projects in the Himalayas, Europe, and Scandinavia. In the nationally coordinated NORPAST-2 research project, he was a postdoc on one of the project modules studying Lateglacial and Holocene climate variability.