Daniel Goldberg
Lecturer in Glaciology
The University of Edinburgh
Biografi
Daniel Goldberg is a computational glaciologist at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences. His research focuses on how ice sheets and glaciers respond to climate change and contribute to sea-level rise. He develops physics-based numerical models to study ice flow, grounding line dynamics, and interactions between ice, ocean, and atmosphere. A central theme in his work is how different observational data—such as satellite measurements of ice velocity, thickness, and surface elevation—can be used to constrain models and improve predictions. He also examines how modelling choices influence projections of future ice loss, highlighting uncertainty in forecasts for Antarctic glaciers such as Thwaites and the wider West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where small differences in assumptions can lead to markedly different long-term outcomes.
