Welcome to the Cryosphere Lab

As part of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), our research group studies the cryosphere, namely the earth’s surface where water is frozen.

We use a wide range of methods, including geophysics, geodesy, remote sensing, and deep learning. We adopt new tools, develop new algorithms, make new observations to quantify the dynamics of the cryospheric systems (see our current research on the Greenland Ice Sheet and glaciers and frozen ground).

We are recruiting new PhD students (see Openings) !

News

December 18 2024

Lin joined the first Hong Kong-based scientists to participate in China's 41st Antarctic Expedition!

December 17 2024

Joe's manuscript on the very first comprehensive inventory of rock glaciers over the Tibetan Plateauu published in Earth System Science Data! Data are freely accessible throgh Zenodo.

December 6 2024

Lin finished his sabbatical leave and had a fruitful visit at the University of Utah.

October 31 2024

Our study, led by former postdoc Jiangjun and published in Nature, reveals summer water storage within the Greenland ice sheet using GNSS observations.

September 5 2024

Summer's paper on widespread thaw slump activities published in Geophysical Research Letters! Thaw slump numbers were doubled and areas were quandrupled within just 7 years on the Tibetan Plateau!

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