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!
August 28 2024
Carol’s paper on the use of deep learning to multi-source satellite images for mapping glacial lakes published in Science of Remote Sensing!
August 1 2024
Mengze Li, recipent of Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, joined our group! Warmest welcome, Mengze!
August 1 2024
Lin started his sabbatical leave and visit at Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah.
March 4 2024
Joe’s manuscript on the very first comprehensive inventory of rock glaciers over the Tibetan Plateauu is posted as a discussion paper in Earth System Science Data Discussion.
August 26 2023
Yan’s paper on combined use of InSAR and deep learning for mapping rock glaciers published in JGR Earth Surface!
August 10 2023
Carol successfully defended her PhD dissertation! Congratulations to Dr. Xu!
August 1 2023
Wensong (Bill) Zhang joined our group as a new PhD student to work on Greenland Ice Sheet hydrology. Welcome, Bill!
July 3 2023
Joe received the Ernst Mach Grant fellowship from Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation for his research visit to TU Graz. Congratulations!
June 10 2023
Yan’s paper on modeling rock glacier ice content with constraints from surface velocities has been published in The Cryosphere!
November 15 2022
Zhuoyi (Joey) Zhao joined the group as a postdoc fellow. Welcome aboard, Dr. Zhao!
September 1 2022
Summer’s paper on deep-learning-aided delineation of thaw slumps and associated dataset have been published in Earth System Science Data. This paper is dedicated to our mentor and friend Professor Tingjun Zhang who passed away early this year! We will miss you!
August 2 2022
Jianlong (Herbert) He joined our group as a new PhD student to work on Martian cryosphere. Welcome, Herbert!
July 22 2022
Billy passed his MPhil thesis defense! Congratulations!
May 10 2022
Summer online workshop is open for application. Potential PhD applicants are welcome to apply through this web page before June 1st. We will provide early PhD admission!
January 18 2022
Our group offers multiple PhD positions! Application deadline is Jan 28. See this page for more details.
November 3 2021
Jie, former PhD student, published a paper in Remote Sensing of Environment that quantifies large-scale surface deformation in permafrost areas in central Tibet.
September 13 2021
Xiaowen’s manuscript on advance and runout hazard assessment of a valley glacier in the Kunlun Mountains published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences.
September 11 2021
Lin recieved AGU John Wahr Early Career Award!
August 2 2021
Zhangyu (Joe) Sun joined our group as a new PhD student. Welcome, Joe!
July 20 2021
Jiahua successfully defended his PhD! Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!
July 14 2021
Yan defended her PhD dissertation with flying colors! Congratulations to Dr. Hu!
June 29 2021
Seven papers published between April and June, covering permafrost and Greenland ice sheet, using various methods and data. Check them out on our publication page.
February 10 2021
New paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters revealed links between Antarctic ice mass changes with ENSO.
December 27 2020
Enze’s paper on a generalized deep learning network for delineating glacial fronts from multi-sensor imagery is published in Remote Sensing of Environment!
November 23 2020
Yan’s paper, trying to solve a puzzle of a group of unique landforms in East Kunlun, published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
November 17 2020
Paper, published in Nature Communications, documents drastic changes of the BIG 3 of Greenland in the past 100 years.
November 2 2020
Calling for research articles using remote sensing to study permafrost vulnerability.
October 15 2020
Lingcao is joining University of Colorado as a CIRES postdoc fellow. Wish you the best in your new position!
August 19 2020
Enze successfully defended his PhD thesis! Congratulations to Dr. Zhang!
August 18 2020
New paper on improved estimate of Greenland ice mass trends and accelerations is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
August 11 2020
Welcome to all EASC summer workshop attendees!
August 3 2020
New academic year begins! Warmest welcome to Zhuoxuan (Summer) and Billy!
June 17 2020
Summer online workshop is open for application. Potential PhD applicants are welcome to apply through this web page before July 17. We will provide early PhD admission!
June 12 2020
Jiahua’s paper on ground elevation changes in Canadian permafrost areas as observed by GPS Interferometric Reflectometry is published in The Cryosphere.
May 27 2020
Hope everyone is healthy and safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our website is now recovering from a long hiatus.
January 20 2020
Lin was promoted as Associate Professor of Earth System Science (tenured) and Head of Graduate Division of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, CUHK!
December 19 2019
Yan is heading to University of Exeter for a six-month visit to Prof. Stephan Harrison. Have a wonderful and fruitful exchange!
November 22 2019
Lingcao’s deep learning paper for mapping retrogressive thaw slumps is published in Remote Sensing of Environment! Codes are available on GitHub.
August 13 2019
Jie passed his PhD thesis defense! Congratulations to Dr. Chen!
August 1 2019
Xingyu (Carol) Xu joined our research group as a PhD student! Warmest Welcome!
July 16 2019
Lingcao passed his PhD thesis defense! Biggest congratulations to Dr. Huang, the very first doctor from our research group!
July 10 2019
Enze and Yan received the Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence from CUHK for their upcoming research visits in Denmark and UK. Congratulations!
July 2 2019
Summer visiting students Yidan, Haoran, and Linyang joined our group. Welcome!
June 28 2019
Enze’s paper on the use of deep learning to automatically delineate glacial calving fronts is published in The Cryosphere.
June 28 2019
Yan won Best Poster Award (again) at the 2019 Dragon 4 Symposium held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Congratulations!
April 15 2019
Summer Student Workshop is open for application. Potential PhD applicants are welcome to apply through this web page . Application deadline is May 5 2019.
March 30 2019
Our new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters! We documented short-term mass changes of the Greenland Ice Sheet and investigated their possible links to atmospheric circulation anomalies.
January 31 2019
Yan passed PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations!
January 18 2019
Our GPS-IR permafrost studies are highlighted by UNAVCO’s Science Snapshots .
January 17 2019
Jiahua passed PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations!
December 19 2018
Lingcao’s paper on the use of deep learning in detecting thermokarst landforms is published in Remote Sensing!
November 30 2018
Lingcao won first place poster presentation award at the ACUNS18 Conference. Congratulations!
October 31 2018
Xiyu’s paper on detecting soil freeze/thaw onsets using both active and passive microwave measurements is published in Remote Sensing of Environment!
October 30 2018
Jiangjun (JJ) is leaving our group and will start his faculty position at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen. Wish JJ the best in his future endeavours!
October 27 2018
New paper on the use of Persistent Scatterer InSAR for mapping and quantifying permafrost thaw subsidence is published in JGR Earth Surface .
October 15 2018
Welcome Prof. ZHAO Lin of CAS to visit us and give a talk on permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau.
October 2 2018
Bon Voyage! Lingcao starts his 6-month visit to Prof. Thian Gan at Univesity of Alberta.
September 26 2018
Our new paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters! We used multi-source geodetic measurements (GPS, GRACE, SAR, and altimetry) to quantify short-term mass changes of Jakobshavn Isbræ in Greenland.
September 21 2018
Jiangjun’s paper published in The Cryosphere! He found a seasonal mass anomaly from GRACE time series, which was possibly due to water storage generated by summer surface melting.
July 19 2018
Enze passed PhD qualifying exam. Congratulations!
June 22 2018
Yan won Best Poster Award at the Dragon 4 Mid-Term Results Symposium, Xi’An. Congratulations!
June 12 2018
New paper published in GRL! We observed seasonal elevation changes in a permafrost area using GPS-IR and developed a very simple model to explain them.