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CV

Curriculum Vitae for Martin Truffer

Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks,
903 Koyukuk Drive, AK 99775-7320, USA
e-mail: truffer@gi.alaska.edu

Professional preparation

Diploma physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 1995. Thesis title: The relationship between basal shear stress, subglacial hydraulics, and sliding speed. A study at Findelengletscher (in German)

Ph.D. geophysics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999. Thesis title: Till deformation beneath Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska, and its implication on glacier motion.

Professional Experience

2001 - present	Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2000 - 2001	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2000 - 2001	Research Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division, Hobart, Australia
1995 - 2000	Research Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks
1995	Research Assistant, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1991 - 1992	Gymnasium (High School) Teacher, Brig, Switzerland

Field Experience

1995 - present	Seismic depth soundings and time lapse photography of LeConte Glacier, SE Alaska. Hotwater drilling, bore hole instrumentation, GPS and "conventional" surveying on Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska Range. Mass balance measurements on Gulkana Glacier (Alaska Range), McCall Glacier (Brooks Range), and Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau, Alaska).
2000	GPS surveying and radio echo surveys of Brown Glacier, Heard Island, Australia
1995	Hot water drilling and bore hole instrumentation on and next to Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland
1994 - 1995	Hot water drilling, bore hole instrumentation, and radio echo soundings on Eigergletscher, Grubengletscher, and Findelengletscher, Swiss Alps.

Professional Organisations

American Geophysical Union

International Glaciological Society

Research Interests

Glacier dynamics, subglacial processes, tidewater glaciers, applications of GPS to glaciology, drilling technology, glacier mass balance, inverse theory, applications of the finite element method

Advisors and Collaborators

Ian Allison, Australian Antarctic Division

Keith Echelmeyer, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Dennis Fatland, Vexcel Corp., Boulder, Colorado

Martin Funk, ETHZ Switzerland

William Harrison, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Almut Iken, ETHZ Switzerland

Slawek Tulaczyk, University of California Santa Cruz

This page is maintained by Martin Truffer. Last update: December 2002