Thomas Olmsted Teisberg

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

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I’m a PhD candidate in the Stanford Radio Glaciology Lab, advised by Prof. Dusty Schroeder.

As an engineer in a geophysics group, I design radar instrumentation for studying Earth’s ice sheets. I have spent most of my Ph.D. co-developing ORCA (Open Radar Code Architecture) and using it to develop and test Peregrine, a field-portable small fixed-wing UAV equipped with a miniaturized ice-penetrating radar.

I’m also interested in new ice-penetrating radar applications enabled by cheaper, more repeatable surveying, especially radar interferometry to better understand englacial motion.

I developed and maintain a data portal for accessing an archive of early ice-penetrating radar data collected in the 1970s and 1980s over Antarctica and Greenland. In many cases this data predates any nearby modern radar data by several decades, extending our historical view and improving our understanding of how the ice sheets are evolving.

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selected publications

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    Open Radar Code Architecture (ORCA): A Platform for Software-defined Coherent Chirped Radar Systems
    Thomas O. Teisberg*, Anna L. Broome*, and Dustin M. Schroeder
    *Equal contribution
    Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024
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    Studying Climate Change With an Ice Radar Drone
    Thomas O. Teisberg
    IEEE Spectrum, Oct 2023