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The Alfred Wegener Institute (Dep.: Sea Ice Physics) offers two master theses. Can you please announce this opportunity to your students?

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Sea Ice Physics Dep.) offers two master theses:

1.       Task of the first thesis is to develop an automated extraction algorithm of the fast ice edge location in the marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean. The case study region of the project is the Laptev Sea. The fast ice detection shall be based on satellite remote sensing data products such as sea ice drift and concentration from various sensors. The extracted information (mask) will be used for a better representation of the fast ice zone in sea ice - ocean coupled models.

2.       Task of the second thesis is to analyze sea ice thickness information obtained during a field campaign by a helicopter-borne electromagnetic device (EM-Bird) over the fast ice zone in the Laptev Sea. The student shall be directly involved in the data acquisition and perform an accuracy analysis of the recorded ice thickness, where external factors influence the measurements. One goal is to implement a method which takes the influence of locally varying surface salinities on the ice thickness result into account. In addition, ice surface topography using laser roughness data shall be analyzed. Participation on a 6 week field campaign in the Russian Arctic is required.

Note that both tasks require programming skills.
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