Christian Sommer

Shahateet, K., Seehaus, T., Navarro, F., Sommer, C., Braun, M., Geodetic Mass Balance of the South Shetland Islands Ice Caps, Antarctica, from Differencing TanDEM-X DEMs. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 3408. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13173408

Rounce, D. R., Hock, R., McNabb, R. W., Millan, R., Sommer, C., Braun, M. H., et al. (2021). Distributed global debris thickness estimates reveal debris significantly impacts glacier mass balance. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091311. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091311

Sommer, C., Malz, P., Seehaus, T.C., Lippl, S., Zemp, M., Braun, M., 2020. Rapid glacier retreat and downwasting throughout the European Alps in the early 21^st century. Nat Commun 11, 3209 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16818-0

Farías-Barahona, D., Sommer, C., Sauter, T., Bannister, D., Seehaus, T., Malz, P., Casassa, G., Mayewski, P.A., Turton, J.V., Braun, M., 2020. „Detailed quantification of glacier elevation and mass changes in South Georgia“. Environmental Research Letters 15, 034036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6b32

Seehaus, T., Malz, P., Sommer, C., Lippl, S., Cochachin, A., Braun, M., 2019. Changes of the tropical glaciers throughout Peru between 2000 and 2016 – mass balance and area fluctuations. The Cryosphere 13, 2537–2556. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2537-2019

Benn, D.I., Jones, R.L., Luckman, A., Fürst, J.J., Hewitt, I., Sommer, C., 2019. Mass and enthalpy budget evolution during the surge of a polythermal glacier: a test of theory. J. Glaciol. 65, 717–731. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.63

Braun, M.H., Malz, P., Sommer, C., Farías-Barahona, D., Sauter, T., Casassa, G., Soruco, A., Skvarca, P., Seehaus, T.C., 2019. Constraining glacier elevation and mass changes in South America. Nature Clim Change 9, 130–136. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0375-7

since September 2017: Research assistant, FAU Institut für Geographie, Erlangen

2016: Research assistant Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

2015 – 2017: Master of Science Physical Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, thesis: Glacier Elevation and mass change in the Hindu Kush mountain range estimated from TanDEM-X and SRTM C-band SAR elevation models.

2014: Research assistant C-CORE, St. John´s, Canada

2011 – 2015: BSc Physical Geography,  FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Glaciology, Remote Sensing, Mountain Geography