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On 18 June, Philip Kraaijenbrink will receive the prestigious Martinus van Marum prize for the best Dutch PhD research in environmental sciences in the past five years. “I am very honored to receive this appreciation of my work.”

Kraaijenbrink’s pioneering research focuses on monitoring of debris-covered glaciers using drones at high altitude in the Nepalese Himalaya. His research revealed the spatial variability of surface changes of these glaciers in unprecedented detail. Kraaijenbrink’s output has been a catalyst in debris-covered glacier research, as the data products he generated during his PhD have been used by numerous other studies to further our understanding of relevant processes. He was also able to use his small-scale findings to better understand change at large scale by embedding them in a glacier model he developed. This enabled him to understand the implications of climate change for glaciers across the high mountains of Asia. He published this high-impact work in Nature.

“My PhD research made me realize that I find the link between scales particularly interesting and motivating. I therefore plan to use the prize to continue doing drone surveys in the mountains. This way I support my modeling and remote sensing studies of large-scale environmental change and its implications for society.”

Publication

Kraaijenbrink, P.D.A., 2018. High-resolution insights into the dynamics of Himalayan debris-covered glaciers, Utrecht Studies in Earth Sciences 159. Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Utrecht. URL: