Dr. Ronja Reese

Postdoctoral Researcher
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Reese

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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
ronja.reese[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

since 09/2021
Vice Chancellor Fellow at Northumbria University Newcastle, UK

since 2020
Postdoctoral researcher in the EU Horizon2020 project “Tipping Points in Antarctic Climate Components”

since 2019
Member of the ERA-LAB, FutureLab on “Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene”

since 2019
Member of the Working Group on Ice Dynamics

since 2018
Postdoctoral researcher in the DFG project “On the importance of rapid dynamics for the stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet”

since 2014
Co-developer of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)

2018
Scientific Expedition to Antarctica ANT-XXXIII/2 on research vessel Polarstern,
operated by Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research

2016 –2017
COMNAP Antarctic Research Fellowship for visiting the British Antarctic Survey

2014 –2018
PhD in Climate Physics on “The far reach of ice-shelf thinning in Antarctica”
at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Potsdam, Germany
scholarship by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

2013
Master of Science in Mathematics
Studies of Mathematics (minor in B.Sc. Psychology)
at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany

At the moment, I'm particularly interested in

  • (in)stability of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets
  • ice dynamics in Antarctica and Greenland
  • ice-ocean interactions
  • the role of ice sheets for sea-level projections 
  • ice-shelf buttressing
  • numerical modeling of ice sheets

M. Zeitz, R. Reese, J. Beckmann, U. Krebs-Kanzow, and R. Winkelmann
Impact of the melt-albedo feedback on the future evolution of the Greenland Ice Sheet with PISM-dEBM-simple
The Cryosphere Discuss., in review.

M. Kreuzer, R. Reese, W. N. Huiskamp, S. Petri, T. Albrecht, G. Feulner, R. Winkelmann
Coupling framework (1.0) for the ice sheet model PISM (1.1.1) and the ocean model MOM5 (5.1.0) via the ice-shelf cavity module PICO
Geoscientific Model Development, in review.

Edwards, T. L., Nowicki, S., Marzeion, B., Hock, R., Goelzer, H., Seroussi, H., Jourdain, N. C., Slater, D. A., Turner, F. E., Smith, C. J., McKenna, C. M., Simon, E., Abe-Ouchi, A., Gregory, J. M., Larour, E., Lipscomb, W. H., Payne, A. J., Shepherd, A., Agosta, C., Alexander, P., Albrecht, T., Anderson, B., Asay-Davis, X., Aschwanden, A., Barthel, A., Bliss, A., Calov, R., Chambers, C., Champollion, N., Choi, Y., Cullather, R., Cuzzone, J., Dumas, C., Felikson, D., Fettweis, X., Fujita, K., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Gladstone, R., Golledge, N. R., Greve, R., Hattermann, T., Hoffman, M. J., Humbert, A., Huss, M., Huybrechts, P., Immerzeel, W., Kleiner, T., Kraaijenbrink, P., Le clec'h, S., Lee, V., Leguy, G. R., Little, C. M., Lowry, D. P., Malles, J.-H., Martin, D. F., Maussion, F., Morlighem, M., O'Neill, J. F., Nias, I., Pattyn, F., Pelle, T., Price, S., Quiquet, A., Radić, V., Reese, R., Rounce, D. R., Rückamp, M., Sakai, A., Shafer, C., Schlegel, N.-J., Shannon, S., Smith, R. S., Straneo, F., Sun, S., Tarasov, L., Trusel, L. D., Breedam, J. V., van de Wal, R., van den Broeke, M., Winkelmann, R., Zekollari, H., Zhao, C., Zhang, T., and Zwinger, T.
Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise
Nature 593, 74–82, 2021.

A. J. Payne, S. Nowicki, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, P. M. Alexander, T. Albrecht, X. Asay-Davis, A. Aschwanden, A. Barthel, T. J. Bracegirdle, R. Calov, C Chambers, Y. Choi, R. I. Cullather, J. K. Cuzzone, C. Dumas, T. Edwards, D. Felikson, X. Fettweis, B. K. Galton-Fenzi, H. Goelzer, R. Gladstone, N. R. Golledge, J. M. Gregory, R. Greve, T. Hattermann, M. J. Hoffman, A. Humbert, P. Huybrechts, N. C. Jourdain, T. Kleiner, P. Kuipers Munneke, E. Y. Larour, S. Le clec'h, V. Lee, G. Leguy, W. H. Lipscomb, C. M. Little, D. P. Lowry, M.Morlighem, I. Nias, F. Pattyn, T. Pelle, S. Price, A. Quiquet, R. Reese, M. Rückamp, N.-J. Schlegel, H. Seroussi, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, D. A Slater, R. Smith, F. Straneo, S. Sun, L. Tarasov, L. Trusel, J. Van Breedam, R. S. W. van de Wal, M. R. van den Broeke, R. Winkelmann, C. Zhao, T. Zhang, T. Zwinger
Future sea level change under CMIP5 and CMIP6 scenarios from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021.

I. J. Sauer, R. Reese, C. Otto, T. Geiger, S. N. Willner, B. P. Guillod, D. N. Bresch, K. Frieler
Climate signals in river flood damages emerge under sound regional disaggregation
Nature Communications 12, 2128, 2021.

S. H. R. Rosier, R. Reese, J. F. Donges, J. De Rydt, G. H. Gudmundsson, and R. Winkelmann
The tipping points and early-warning indicators for Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica
The Cryosphere 15, 1501–1516, 2021.

J. De Rydt, R. Reese, F. Paolo and G. H. Gudmundsson
Drivers of Pine Island Glacier speed-up from 1996 to 2016
The Cryosphere 15, 113-132, 2021.

R. Reese, A. Levermann, T. Albrecht, H. Seroussi, R. Winkelmann
The role of history and strength of the oceanic forcing for sea-level projections from Antarctica with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model
The Cryosphere 14, 3097–3110, 2020.

H. Seroussi, S. Nowicki, A. J. Payne, H. Goelzer, W. H. Lipscomb, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, T. Albrecht, X. Asay-Davis, A. Barthel, R. Calov, R. Cullather, C. Dumas, B. K. Galton-Fenzi, R. Gladstone, N. R. Golledge, J. M. Gregory, R. Greve, T. Hatterman, M. J. Hoffman, A. Humbert, P. Huybrechts, N. C. Jourdain, T. Kleiner, E. Larour, G. R. Leguy, D. P. Lowry, C. M. Little, M. Morlighem, F. Pattyn, T. Pelle, S. F. Price, A. Quiquet, R. Reese, N.-J. Schlegel, A. Shepherd, E. Simon, R. S. Smith, F. Straneo, S. Sun, L. D. Trusel, J. Van Breedam, R. S. W. van de Wal, R. Winkelmann, C. Zhao, T. Zhang and T. Zwinger
ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century
The Cryosphere, 14, 3033–3070, 2020.

H. Seroussi, S. Nowicki, E. Simon, A. Abe Ouchi, T. Albrecht, J. Brondex, S. Cornford, C. Dumas, F. Gillet-Chaulet, H. Goelzer, N. R. Golledge, J. M. Gregory, R. Greve, M. J. Hoffman, A. Humbert, P. Huybrechts, T. Kleiner, E. Larour, G. Leguy, W. H. Lipscomb, D. Lowry, M. Mengel, M. Morlighem, F. Pattyn, A. J. Payne, D. Pollard, S. Price, A. Quiquet, T. Reerink, R. Reese, C. B. Rodehacke, N.-J. Schlegel, A. Shepherd, S. Sun, J. Sutter, J. Van Breedam, R. S. W van de Wal, R. Winkelmann and T. Zhang
initMIP-Antarctica: an ice sheet model initialization experiment of ISMIP6
The Cryosphere 13, 1441-1471, 2019.

R. Reese, R. Winkelmann, G.H. Gudmundsson
Grounding-line flux formula applied as a flux condition in numerical simulations fails for buttressed Antarctic ice streams
The Cryosphere 12, 3229-3242, 2018.

J. Kingslake, R.P. Scherer, T. Albrecht, J. Coenen, R.D. Powell, R. Reese, N. D. Stansell, S. Tulaczyk, M.G. Wearing, P.L. Whitehouse
Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene
Nature 558, 430-434, 2018.

R. Reese, T. Albrecht, M. Mengel, X. Asay-Davis and R. Winkelmann
Antarctic sub-shelf melt rates via PICO
The Cryosphere 12, 1969-1985, 2018.

R. Reese, G.H. Gudmundsson, A. Levermann and R. Winkelmann
The far reach of ice shelf thinning in Antarctica
Nature Climate Change 8, 53-57, 2018.
Highlighted in Nature Climate Change.

Frieler, K., Clark, P. U., He, F., Buizert, C., Reese, R, Ligtenberg, S. R. M., van den Broeke, M. R., Winkelmann, R., Levermann, A.
Consistent Evidence of Increasing Antarctic Accumulation with Warming
Nature Climate Change, 5, 348–352, 2015.

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10.04.2021 Interview with ZDF-Online on Pine-Island Glacier

27.11.2020 "The role of ice shelves in future Antarctic sea-level projections"
Talk at the Glaciology Seminar at the University of Bristol

23./24.11.2020 Workshop on "Eisschilde, Kippprozesse und Meeresspiegelanstieg" together with Moritz Kreuzer for the Nachhaltigkeitswochen des Nordens and the Klimazukunftskonferenz

13.11.2020 "How small changes can make a big difference: tipping points in Antarctica"
Joint post together with Dave Chandler on the blog of the Croypheric Sciences Division of the EGU.

2020/2021 Mentee in the Leibniz Mentoring Program

23.07.2020 "Ice-ocean interactions in Antarctica - What drives future sea-level rise?"
Talk at the Institutskolloqium of the Institute for Environmental Science of the University of Heidelberg

10.06.2020 "Eis, Kipppunkte und Meeresspiegelanstieg"
Talk at Museum für Naturkunde in the Sommerschule Klimawissen together with Dr. Beckmann

06.2020 Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes
Organisation of this year's online format, presentation of own research

02.06.2020 Modellierung der Eisschilde auf Grönland und der Antarktis
Guest lecture in „„Einführung in die Klimamodellierung“ at the Insitute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam

29.05.2020 Eisschilde auf Grönland und der Antarktis
Guest lecture in „Modellierung erdsystemarer Prozesse“ at the Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam

2019 Postdoc representative at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

26.11.2019 Input: Klimawandel
Workshop for the Parkaue, Junges Staatstheater Berlin in the scope to inform the development of a theater play about climate change

07.2019 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

10.05.2019 Image of the Week – Kicking the ice’s butt(ressing)
Blog for the Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

30.11.2018 Image of the Week – (Un)boxing the melting under the ice shelves
Blog for the Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

24.04.2018 Das Eis und der Ozean: Eine Geschichte über die Antarktis
Opening speech at the Science Days of the Bertha von Suttner Gymnasium in Potsdam

2018 Aufbruch in die Antarktis
FAZ-Online blog on the Polarstern Expedition to Antarctica