01/04/2012: Dr.Csatho in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
RIT scientist heads team to measure polar ice melt: Satellite imagery has helped scientists detect everything from wheat shortages in the former Soviet Union to deforestation in the Amazon. Nowadays, satellites are using more sophisticated technology to determine how much polar ice has melted — a sign of global warming. [More].11/28/2011: RIT and University at Buffalo collaboration to help NASA assess changes in polar ice
Taking the Pulse of an Iceberg—Scientists Simulate Laser Imaging for NASA Missions: Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets is complicated work. They move and change shape. They melt. A scientist at Rochester Institute of Technology is giving NASA better tools for assessing changes in the fragile polar region. John Kerekes won a three-year, $561,130 grant from NASA to help the space agency’s scientists better interpret remotely sensed data collected with laser light. [More].08/31/2011: Dr.Csatho receives (Co-I/Institutional PI) NASA grant "Beyond Backstress: data driven assessment of outlet glacier dynamics"
08/29/2011: RSL welcomes a new graduate student Mr. Robert Wheelwright to our research team.
07/14/2011: Dr. Csatho's research appeared in UB News
Fast-Shrinking Greenland Glacier Experienced Rapid Growth During Cooler Times: Large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling, according to University at Buffalo geologists working in Greenland. [more].06/20/2011: Dr.Csatho receives (Co-I/Institutional PI) NASA grant "Interdisciplinary advancement of the theoretical basis for lidar sensing of the earth"
05/13/2011: RSL congratulates Ms. Melissa Zelazny on her graduation in M.S.
Jan 2011: Dr. Csatho quoted in Environmental Health Perspectives published by National Institute of Environmental Health Science
Out of Equilibrium? The World’s Changing Ice Cover, by Charles W. Schmidt, MS: In August 2010 an iceberg four times the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland’s northwestern coast and began drifting out to the sea. At nearly 100 square miles, this was the largest iceberg to appear in Arctic waters since 1962 and a fresh indicator that Greenland’s frozen landscape is undergoing significant changes. [more].05/08/2009: Dr. Csatho's interview with International Polar Foundation on Improving Models and Predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet
Improving Models and Predictions for the Greenland Ice Sheet: Dr. Beáta Csathó of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by NASA and NSF. At the moment she's studying the mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet using ICES at satellite laser altimetry with Tony Schenk of Ohio State University and the reconstruction of historical outlet glacier changes as part of the project "IPY: POLENET/Greenland:Using Bedrock Geodesy to Constrain Past and Present Day Changes in Greenland's Ice Mass" with Michael Bevis, also of Ohio State University. Along with her colleague at SUNY Buffalo, Jason Briner, Dr.Csathó is also a co-Principal Investigator on a project entitled "The Sensitivity of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Climate Change: Reconstructing the response of the Jakobshavn Isbrae during the Little Ice Age and Holocene Thermal Maximum." [more].05/06/2009: Dr. Csatho's interview with International Polar Foundation on History and Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet
History and Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Dr. Beáta Csathó of the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo has been studying the Greenland Ice Sheet for a number of years and is currently involved in a number of projects funded by NASA and NSF. [more].02/11/2008: Dr. Csatho's research appeared in UB News
New Greenland Ice Sheet Data Will Impact Climate Change Models: A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based. [More].12/11/2007: Dr. Schenk's article on Geomatics and Climate Change published in GIM International
Geomatics and Climate Change: There is a strong consensus among scientists that accelerated sea-level rise induced by greenhouse warming is likely to become a major environmental problem over coming decades. The rise in global sea level is attributed to thermal expansion of the ocean, the melting of temporate-latitude glaciers, and net loss in mass from ice-sheets in Greenland and the Antarctic. During the coming century sea-level rise is expected to continue at an increasing rate. In addition to the obvious consequences for coastal regions, an influx of ice-sheet melt water may cause significant change in the circulation of world oceans, thus triggering large-scale climatic perturbation. What does all this have to do with geomatics or, if you prefer, geospatial information technology? [More].01/25/2007: UB geophysicist aims to understand remote corners of the planet
The pursuit of places on Earth rarely seen by human eyes has taken geophysicist Beata Csatho across the globe, from the frozen ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica to the windswept mountains of South America and Central Asia. [More]01/20/2007: UB Geology welcomes Csatho.
Beata Csatho, who joined the department this August as an Assistant Professor, is a geophysicist, specializing in remote sensing. Csatho has received her PhD in Geophysics from the University of Miskolc, Hungary in 1993. She started her career as a research scientist of the Eotvos Lorand Geophysical Institute of Hungary (1981-1992), where she developed and applied potential field and electomagnetic methods for mineral exploration and for environmental geophysics. In 1993 she received a Fulbright scholarship for studying geological remote sensing at the USGS in Flagstaff, AZ. Prior to coming to UB she was a research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1994-2006). [More]12/08/2003: Study reveals complex changes in West Antarctic Ice Streams.
SAN FRANCISCO - An Ohio State University study has revealed a complex picture of change that is occurring in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).Scientists here are calibrating data from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and using the satellite to study the ice streams that carry ice from the interior of the WAIS out to sea. [More]
12/08/2003: Major Greenland glacier, once stable, now shrinking dramatically.
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the world's fastest-moving glaciers is speeding up and retreating rapidly, a recent study has revealed.The finding has surprised scientists, because while the margins of the Jakobshavn (pronounced "yah-cub-SAH-ven") Glacier had been slowly retreating from the southwest coast of Greenland since before 1900, this retreat appeared to have stopped by the early 1990s when the first accurate measurements were made. Now the glacier is accelerating. [More]