Dr. Michael John Willis - Cornell University

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1997 – 2008 Participant in eight Antarctic field seasons (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005,2007, 2008). Organized logistics for six of the field seasons. Team leader and logisticscoordinator for all seasons after 2000.2008 – Present Logistics planner for two International Polar Year projects and their subsequentextensions (Polar Earth Observing Network and Greenland GPS Network).2004 – 2007 Pacific Geoscience Center, Natural Resources Canada and Canadian Geological Survey,Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Collaboration with Canadian researchersspecializing in modeling glacial isostatic adjustment and Earth deformation.2000 – Present Designed and installed regional and continental scale crustal motion geodesy networks.Designed, fabricated and installed the first successful continuously running GPS stationin a polar location. Expanded the use of the design to more than one hundred remotefield sites at high latitudes.2003 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. Collaboration withItalian Antarctic Program on geodetic projects in Antarctica.Additional field experience in Greenland (2007), Scotland (1992-1997), the CanadianRockies (1997), Spitsbergen (1996), Australia (1995) and Malta (1995).SERVICE2009 – present Committee member and mentor to Andrew K. Melkonian, PhD student at CornellUniversity.2011 – present Adviser to the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota. Facilitatingimprovement of Google Earth imagery in the polar regions.2010 – present Member of NASA ASTER Science Team concentrating on mapping of glaciers andland ice from space.2009 – Present American Geophysical Union Congressional Science Education and Technologyparticipant. Washington D.C. Meet with congressional, senate and committee stafferson Capitol Hill to discuss geoscience, climate, education and research and design, andfunding for national agencies.2012 Invited presentation at the Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment, at NASAGoddard Space Flight Center giving details of work on Greenland coastal uplift.2010 Invited participant at National Science Foundation workshop on Autonomous PolarObserving systems.2010 Invited participant at National Science Foundation workshop on land ice contribution toglobal sea level rise. Helped formulate a white-paper to inform the next decade ofnational research concerning ice mass change and sea level rise.4
2010 Convener: Polar Observing Systems. International Polar Year, Oslo ScienceConference. Oslo, Norway. Organized sessions, selected speakers and helped run theconference sessions.2010 Mentor for Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) workshop. Oslo,Norway. Invited to organize and run workshop sessions on Fomenting InternationalCollaborations, Leadership, and Designing and Executing Polar Research Projects.2010 Keynote Speech at the International Polar Year, Oslo Science Conference. Oslo,Norway. The Polar Earth Observing Network: Progress report and futureopportunities.2010 Convener: Earth structure, deformation and ice sheet evolution. Scientific Committeeon Antarctic Research, Open Science Conference. Buenos Aries, Argentina. Organizedsessions and selected speakers.2010 Public Lecture at Paleontological Research Institute, Museum of the Earth.2009 – 2010 Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs.2008 - Present Reviewer, AGU EOS magazine, Tectonophysics, Global and Planetary Change, RemoteSensing of Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research2006 – Present Invited speaker at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2012), SUNY Buffalo(2010, Pegrum Lecture), University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2009), LehighUniversity (2009), Cornell University (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), Ohio State University(2007, 2008), Canadian Geological Survey (2006, 2007, 2008), British Antarctic Survey(2006).2006 – Present POLENET Planning committee. Helped organize and design the POLENETdeployments in both polar regions. I am responsible for collating international efforts,helping to evolve the equipment design and organize maintenance scheduling.2006 Invited introductory talk. “Challenges and Solutions for Continuous Remote GPSStations in Antarctica.” GPS in the IPY: The POLENET Project, Technical Universityof Dresden, Dresden, Germany.2004 – 2007 Education and Outreach Board Member UNAVCO Inc.2002 SCAR ANTEC Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics.2001 – 2003 Board member International Association of Geodesy (IAG) commission on crustaldeformation in Antarctica.RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL ABILITIESStrong background in geodesy, glaciology, structural geology, viscoelastic GIA, geomorphology, Quaternaryenvironments, dating techniques, remote sensing and SAR Interferometry.High end GPS processing on LINUX (PAGES, some BERNESE, some TRACK, some GAMIT).5
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