Felix Silva Levio

Contact

Email: felix.silvalevio@vuw.ac.nz
Office: CO505

Qualifications

BSc Victoria University of Wellington (2023)

MSc thesis

Working Title

Geodetic Mass Balance Analysis: Linking Glacier Melt in New Zealand to Anthropogenic Climate Change

Supervisors

• Dr Lauren Vargo
• Dr Shaun Eaves

Project objectives and description

Alpine glaciers are key indicators of climate change due to their high sensitivity to small changes in temperature and precipitation. As global temperatures continue to rise, glaciers around the globe have been melting rapidly, raising concerns about the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. In New Zealand, key glaciers such as the Brewster and Rolleston Glaciers are also undergoing rapid melting. Therefore, this proposed project aims to address this issue by: (1) generating new geodetic mass balance measurements for the Brewster and Rolleston glaciers and use these to quantify glacier melt, and (2) inputting these measurements into an existing glacier attribution workflow to quantify the amount of melt due to anthropogenic climate change. By collecting new datasets of glacier change and comparing them with existing ones, we expect to better understand the drivers of glacier mass change in New Zealand.

Publications

TBC