Congratulations to Nick Homer who successfully defended his PhD thesis: “Applying Machine Learning to Earth Observation of Antarctic Ice Shelves and Icebergs.”

The panel of examiners unanimously confirmed that thesis was a significant contribution in the field, presented new findings related to observations of the Getz Ice Shelf and a novel application of the Segment Anything Models to the problem of iceberg tracking.

A special thank you note goes out to Nick’s supervisory team Prof Robert Bingham (Edinburgh), Dr Sohan Seth (Edinburgh), Dr Noel Gourmelen (Edinburgh), Dr Hamish Pritchard (BAS), Dr Lorna Street (Edinburgh) and to examiners, Prof Peter Nienow (Edinburgh), Prof James Lea (Liverpool) and Dr Albert Miles (Edinburgh).

SENSE would like to take this opportunity to thank our funder the Natural Environment Research Council, Nick’s CASE partner institutions Alan Turning Institute & John Muir Trust, SENSE wider community, and Nick’s family and friends, for their invaluable support and input into his PhD journey.

From all of us at SENSE – congratulations! Wishing you all the very best in your future career.

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