Science
Thomas Teisberg
Modeling the Earth’s ice sheets

Thomas Teisberg is an engineer and radio glaciologist, developing open-source tools for data collection and modeling of the Earth’s ice sheets. He recently finished his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with the Stanford Radio Glaciology group, where he developed open-source ice-penetrating radar systems and explored scientific applications of automated airborne radar surveys. With previous work ranging from radar systems for self-driving cars to acoustic sensing systems for Zipline’s medical supply delivery UAVs, Thomas has planned and participated in two field seasons of testing UAV-borne radar systems in Greenland, as well as participating in fieldwork on glaciers in Svalbard and Iceland. He was the recipient of a NASA FINESST grant, as well as being a TomKat Graduate Fellow, a Stanford Data Science Scholar, and a Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Graduate Fellow. Thomas also developed and maintains radarfilm.studio, an open-source data portal for the first-ever continent-scale radar surveys of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.