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- 1994- Associate Professor in Computer Science
- 1988-1994 Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department,
teaching Introductory FORTRAN for Scientists and
Engineers, Numerical Methods with
FORTRAN77, and Finite Element Modeling with FORTRAN.
- 1987-1988 Adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department
teaching Numerical Methods with FORTRAN. Research on
DOE grant to provide glaciological boundary conditions
for climatological model assessing risks of long-term
radiactive waste storage, involving developement of
map-plane time-dependent finite-element model of ice
sheet dynamics.
- 1987 Adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department
teaching Numerical Methods with FORTRAN. Continued
work on time-dependent temperature field solution for
an advecting ice shelf, extending the solution to the
grounded ice.
- 1986 Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department,
teaching Vector Calculus, Finite-element Modeling, and
Applied Mathematics for the Management, Life, and
Social Sciences.
- 1985 Developed time-dependent temperature field solution
for an advecting ice shelf.
- 1984-1985 Developed fully time-dependent flowband finite-element
model for reconstruction of glacier surfaces.
Investigated possibility of extending the model to the
map plane.
- 1982-1984 Modeling calving from ice fronts using the finite-
element method. Investigation of the effects of melt
water, surface and bottom crevasses, and ice shelf
configuration.
- 1981-1982 Modeling disintegration of the Nothern Hemisphere ice
sheets with sea-level feedback. Preliminary finite-
element analysis of calving from ice fronts.
- 1980 summer Visiting Scientist at CIRES, University of Colorado,
working on time-dependent response of three-
dimensional derived characteristics model.
- 1979 Developed interactive computer system for data base
manipulation for climatological study.
- 1978-1979 Field season, Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, Senior
Research Scientist (survey of Byrd Glacier - Ross Ice
Shelf interactions).
- 1977 Research Associate, University of Maine at Orono.
Finite-element numerical modeling of the interaction
between Byrd Glacier and the Ross Ice Shelf,
Antarctica. Numerical modeling of West Antarctic Ice
Sheet disintegration for CLIMAP 120,000 BP Maximum
Integlacial experiment. Numerical modeling of ice
sheet reconstructions for CLIMAP 18,000 BP Maximum Ice
Age experimant.
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