Walter Immerzeel
Professor
Department of Physical Geography
Universidad de La Rioja
Spain
Biography
Dr. W.W. (Walter) Immerzeel has eleven years experience in geo-informatics, water resource management and climate change and is skilled in the use of remote sensing, simulation models and spatial analysis. He holds a PhD degree in physical geography at Utrecht University and his research focused on the interface of mountain hydrology, climate change and agriculture. He also has extensive experience in the application of remote sensing and modeling in mountain areas for systematically assessing and monitoring climate change, flooding, droughts and food security. He has worked in the Netherlands as well as in numerous developing countries. From December 2002 until June 2004 he was attached to the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Nepal as associate expert GIS and natural resource management. He is responsible for a number of projects on the cutting edge of climate change and hydrology. From 2008-2011 he was also a CASIMIR fellow supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and working on seasonal forecasting of Asian river discharges from the Himalayan cryosphere and monsoon feedbacks in close collaboration with Utrecht University. Since 2012 he continues working at Utrecht University on a NWO-VENI grant to support his research on the impacts of climate change on the hydrology of the Himalayas and Karakoram mountain ranges. He is also part-time working for ETH Zurich on a cryospheric monitoring programme in Nepal.
Research Interest
GIS and natural resource management
Publications
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Buri, Pascal, Pellicciotti, Francesca, Steiner, Jakob F, Miles, Evan S. & Immerzeel, Wouter W (2016). A grid-based model of backwasting of supraglacial ice cliffs over debris-covered glaciers. Annals of Glaciology, 57 (71), (pp. 199-211) (13 p.).
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Buri, Pascal, Miles, Evan S., Steiner, J.F., Immerzeel, W.W., Wagnon, Patrick & Pellicciotti, Francesca (2016). A physically based 3-D model of ice cliff evolution over debris-covered glaciers. Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface, 121 (12), (pp. 2471-2493).
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Brun, Fanny, Buri, Pascal, Miles, Evan S., Wagnon, Patrick, Steiner, J.F., Berthier, Etienne, Ragettli, S., Kraaijenbrink, P.D.A., Immerzeel, W.W. & Pellicciotti, Francesca (2016). Quantifying volume loss from ice cliffs on debris-covered glaciers using high-resolution terrestrial and aerial photogrammetry. Journal of Glaciology, 62 (234), (pp. 684-695).
