Dr Mel Sandells
@mjsandells
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Snow physicist. Into satellite data, also known to dabble in soil. Loves microwaves, snow crystals, digging and talking to school kids about science. She/her.
Joined July 2010
🆕 #CryoSat preprint! ☃️ "First study to consider scattering within the snow and demonstrate the origin of #CryoSat signals" ❄️ on 🌊🧊 simulated with SMRT 🗞️ Meloche et al @environmentca, feat @mjsandells @geomatics @AlexDiBella @JeromeBouffard2 👉 https://t.co/O6u2WFlA3A
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Looking to take your degree to the next level with a Masters in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Reconstruction at the #UniversityoftheYear2022? Includes a fantastic trip to the Arctic. It's not too to apply for 2023! For more information see here:
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Any UK/EU citizens eligible for UK settled status looking for a PhD in flooding and AI? Fees and stipends are covered. Please apply here: https://t.co/8pEhqWiVYz Deadline: 23rd August 2023
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PhD Project - Deep Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Flood Prediction (FAC23/EE/CIS/WOO) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Officially, I became a member of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences "IAHS", and i got the Young Scientists Travelling award "SYSTA", in recognition of high potential in early career scientists. Many thanks to @IAHS_AISH for their support
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SYSTA awards are so important https://t.co/VSIta2y9ir Huge congratulations Benjamin, it’s a pleasure to have you join us! Quote Tweet below.
I started my #PhD without a scholarship or any source of funding and still on ... But #SYSTA2023 #award come through to expose me to the @IAHS_AISH fraternity @theIUGG @GFZ_Potsdam ... My heart ❤️ missed a beat when I received the email ✉️ of my award letter. #IUGG2023 #ECS
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I mean when the department asks you to do fancy dress for the graduation celebration this is immediately what springs to mind. Bravo, Japan! Quote tweet below.
The University of Kyoto in Japan allows students to wear anything they want for their Graduation ceremony. This is the way.
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I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇
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This week in extreme weather An ongoing thread of newspaper frontpages from around the world 1/ The Week "Climate meltdown"
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Last week my university @UGent approved non-competitive research financing for all professors. The idea is that each professor (all ranks) would receive a yearly amount of research funding of ca. 30.000 euro (so two professors can jointly hire one PhD student). 1/2
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Heading home from Bremerhaven after the third #SMRT workshop. A great week of meeting new people and motivating science. Big thanks to @gsnowph @mjsandells and Henning Löwe for taking us through your model! Can't wait to start using it!
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One of our PhD candidates, Janna, is currently enjoying practical sessions, lectures and discussions in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT) model training workshop @AWI_Media in Bremerhaven. Exciting: SMRT covers sea ice! 😃
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Our Ct scanner is almost ready to depart for #CHARS 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 for the safe transportation and successful installation in the high arctic to discover the wonder of arctic snow microstructure
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In Bremerhaven training the next generation of SMRT users, with special focus on sea ice (as well as snow, of course!). Fantastic facilities and fantastic colleagues. Huge thanks for having us @AWI_de and for the support @ESA_EO #SMRTworkshop2023
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Today, the group learned about designing lake coring strategies to understand the Holocene palaeoclimate of the Abisko region- Join us next year ! https://t.co/xcGvcpEzoP
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NEW undergraduate summer intern position available, working with our group on Antarctic snow algae, Funded by NERC @SUPERDTP1 here @SAMSoceannews Deadline soon! Applicants must be UK undergraduates, or final year students not graduated @eco_snow @CCAP_Oban
https://t.co/aFuwym5d83
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Just a week left to apply for this exciting position on sea ice altimetry! Come work with myself, @_RobertRicker, and others @CIRFA_SFI @OceanSeaIceNPI on the INTERAAC project in beautiful Tromsø 🏔❄️🌊
Come work with us at @CIRFA_SFI!! We have an open 2.5-year position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area "Innovations in Satellite Altimetry for Studying Polar Sea Ice" https://t.co/4OGENRE8nq
@jclandy @_RobertRicker @micheltsamados @esa_cryosat @UiTNorgesarktis
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Algal cells around certain snow crystals and not others #EvenMoreInteresting
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