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2UW-APL Polar Science Center.
3I help monitor changes in ice mass and ice volume of the Greenland
4and Antarctic ice sheets using airborne and …"><meta name=description content="Hey I'm Tyler Clark Sutterley, a Research Scientist at the 
5UW-APL Polar Science Center.
6I help monitor changes in ice mass and ice volume of the Greenland
7and Antarctic ice sheets using airborne and …"></head><body><div class=content><div class="content__left content__swapped__left"><div id=research class=section><div class=section__heading><h2 class=section__title>Some Research Focuses</h2></div><div class=section__content><ul class=research><li>Measuring <span>surface elevation and elevation-change</span> of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets using airborne and satellite altimetry, such as from NASA's ICESat-2 mission</li><li>Estimating <span>glacier and ice sheet mass-change</span> using observations of <span>time-variable gravity</span> provided by the NASA/DLR GRACE and NASA/GFZ GRACE Follow-On missions</li><li>Improving predictions of <span>ocean and Earth tides</span>, particularly in the Southern Ocean and under Antarctic ice shelves</li><li>Developing <span>on-demand and cloud-based services</span> for accessing and processing satellite data</li><li>Developing techniques for fusing datasets from multiple sensors in order to resolve <span>ice sheet topography at high resolution</span> and over rough, crevassed and marginal terrains</li><li>Trying to understand the present-day contributions of glaciers and ice sheets to sea level, and translate remote sensing observations into <span>relevant and actionable pieces of information</span>.</li></ul></div></div><div id=education class=section><div class=section__heading><h2 class=section__title>Some Cool Schools</h2></div><div class=section__content><div class=education__item style=padding-top:1rem><div class=education__subheader><h3 class=education__title>Ph.D. Earth System Science</h3><h3 class=education__date>Sep 2010 -- Mar 2016</h3></div><h3 class=education__place>University of California, Irvine</h3><h3 class=education__description></h3></div><div class=education__item style=padding-top:1rem><div class=education__subheader><h3 class=education__title>International Summer School in Glaciology</h3><h3 class=education__date>Summer 2014</h3></div><h3 class=education__place>University of Alaska, Fairbanks</h3><h3 class=education__description></h3></div><div class=education__item style=padding-top:1rem><div class=education__subheader><h3 class=education__title>M.S. Earth System Science</h3><h3 class=education__date>Sep 2010 -- Jun 2012</h3></div><h3 class=education__place>University of California, Irvine</h3><h3 class=education__description></h3></div><div class=education__item style=padding-top:1rem><div class=education__subheader><h3 class=education__title>B.S. Mechanical Engineering</h3><h3 class=education__date>Sep 2004 -- Jun 2008</h3></div><h3 class=education__place>University of California, San Diego</h3><h3 class=education__description></h3></div></div></div><div id=experience class=section><div class=section__heading><h2 class=section__title>Some Places I've Been</h2></div><div class=section__content><div class=experience><div class=experience__item><div class=experience__header>

7<h3 class=experience__company><a class=links__link href=https://www.washington.edu/>University of Washington</a>,
8<a class=links__link href=https://apl.uw.edu/>Applied Physics Laboratory</a></h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://psc.apl.uw.edu/>Polar Science Center</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Jun 2021 -- Present</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>Senior Research Scientist</h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://psc.apl.uw.edu/>Polar Science Center</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Jun 2019 -- Jun 2021</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>Research Associate</h3></div></div><div class=experience__item><div class=experience__header><h3 class=experience__company><a class=links__link href=https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</a></h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/>ICESat-2 Project Science Office</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Mar 2025 -- Present</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>Project Geodesist</h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/cryosphere/>GSFC Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Apr 2018 -- May 2019</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow</h3></div></div><div class=experience__item><div class=experience__header><h3 class=experience__company><a class=links__link href=https://ess.uci.edu/>University of California, Irvine</a></h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://www.ess.uci.edu/~velicogna/>Velicogna Research Group</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Mar 2016 -- Mar 2017</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>Postdoctoral Scholar</h3></div><div class=experience__job><div class=experience__subheader><h3 class=experience__details><a class=links__link href=https://www.ess.uci.edu/~velicogna/>Velicogna Research Group</a></h3><h3 class=experience__date>Sep 2010 -- Mar 2016</h3></div><h3 class=experience__position>Graduate Student Researcher</h3></div></div></div></div></div><div id=software class=sideSection><div class=section__heading><h2 class=section__title>Some Software</h2></div><div class=section__content><ul class=software><li><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://geoid-toolkit.readthedocs.org/>geoid-toolkit</a></span><br><li>geodesy</li><li>geophysics</li><li>gravity</li><li>spherical-harmonics</li></ul><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://gravity-toolkit.readthedocs.org/>gravity-toolkit</a></span><br><li>geodesy</li><li>GRACE</li><li>GRACE-FO</li><li>gravity</li><li>spherical-harmonics</li></ul><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://is2view.readthedocs.org/>IS2view</a></span><br><li>altimetry</li><li>ICESat-2</li><li>ipyleaflet</li><li>visualization</li><li>xarray</li></ul><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://pytmd.readthedocs.org/>pyTMD</a></span><br><li>geodesy</li><li>geophysics</li><li>oceanography</li><li>tides</li><li>xarray</li></ul><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://slideruleearth.io/>SlideRule</a></span><br><li>AWS</li><li>NASA</li><li>data-access</li><li>earth-data</li><li>ICESat-2</li><li>GEDI</li></ul><ul class=software__group><span><a class=links__link href=https://timescale.readthedocs.org/>timescale</a></span><br><li>astronomy</li><li>earth-orientation</li><li>time</li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="content__right content__swapped__right"><div class="sideSection avatar"><div class=avatar__container><img class=avatar__img src=img/2023_APL_headshot.jpg alt="photo of me"></div></div><div id=profile class=sideSection><div class=sideSection__heading><h2 class=sideSection__title>About Me</h2></div><div class=sideSection__content><p>

8Hey I'm Tyler Clark Sutterley, a Research Scientist at the
9<a class=links__link href=http://psc.apl.uw.edu/>UW-APL Polar Science Center</a>.
10I help monitor changes in ice mass and ice volume of the Greenland
11and Antarctic ice sheets using airborne and satellite measurements.</p></div></div><div class="sideSection contact"><ul><li class=contact__item><i class="fas fa-globe"></i><span><a class=links__link href=https://polargeodesy.github.io target=_blank>UW/APL Polar Geodesy Lab</a></span></li><li class=contact__item><i class="fa-brands fa-google-scholar"></i><span><a class=links__link href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vGmrnbYAAAAJ" target=_blank>Google Scholar Profile</a></span></li><li class=contact__item><i class="ai ai-orcid ai-sm"></i><span><a class=links__link href=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-1194 target=_blank>ORCID Profile</a></span></li><li class=contact__item><i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i><span><a class=links__link href=https://github.com/tsutterley target=_blank ">GitHub Profile</a></span></li><li class=contact__item><i class="fas fa-map-marker-alt"></i><span><a class=links__link href=https://apl.washington.edu/about/directions.php target=_blank>Seattle, WA</a></span></li></ul></div><div class=sideSection><div class=sideSection__heading><h2 class=sideSection__title>Links to Things</h2></div><div class=sideSection__content><ul class=links><li><a class=links__link href=/data/ICESat-2-Cycles.html>ICESat-2 Cycles</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/data/GRACE-Months.html>GRACE Months</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/animations/antarctica.html>GRACE Antarctic Animation</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/animations/greenland.html>GRACE Greenland Animation</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/references/publications.html>Publications</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/references/presentations.html>Presentations</a></li><li><a class=links__link href=/resources>Resources</a></li></ul></div></div></div></div></body></html>