Matt King

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I am Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, based at the University of Tasmania.

My field of expertise is geodetic observation of Earth deformation and the global water cycle, including ice-sheet mass balance and sea-level change. During my ARC Laureate Fellowship, I will focus on East Antarctic ice-mass change - is the ice sheet growing or shrinking and by how much?

I make use of Earth observations from the Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite altimetry, and the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), amongst others. I combine observations of change and variability models of the solid Earth and ice sheet.

I have authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications including several articles in the leading scientific journals Science, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change and Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

In 2015 I was awarded the Royal Society (London) Kavli Medal and Lecture (see the lecture at https://royalsociety.org/events/2015/04/continental-loss) and in 2018 I was awarded the Mawson Medal and Lecture by the Australian Academy of Science.

Experience

  • 2012–present
    Professor of Polar Geodesy , University of Tasmania
  • 2012–2013
    Professor of Polar Geodesy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 2009–2012
    Reader in Polar Geodesy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • 2001–2009
    Research Associate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Education

  • 2002 
    University of Tasmania, PhD
  • 1997 
    University of Tasmania, Bachelor of Surveying (Hons.)

Publications

  • 2012
    Lower satellite-gravimetry estimates of Antarctic sea-level contribution, Nature

Grants and Contracts

  • 2012
    Improving models of West Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment through a new surface velocity field
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • American Geophysical Union
  • International Glaciological Society
  • Royal Society Tasmania

Research Areas

  • Geomatic Engineering (0909)
  • Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience (0406)
  • Earth Sciences (04)

Honours

Australian Academy of Science Mawson Medal and Lecture (2018); Royal Society (London) Kavli Medal and Lecture (2015); Philip Leverhulme Prize (2009); British Geophysical Association's Bullerwell Lecture (2012); American Geophysical Union Geodesy Section Prize (2012)

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