
Member Since 2009
Matt Siegfried
Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines
Member, Cryosphere Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
Colorado School of Mines
Assistant Professor
2019 - Present
Stanford University
Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow
2017 - 2018
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
2015 - 2017
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Education
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Doctorate
Dartmouth College
Masters
Dartmouth College
Bachelors
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Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2019
Matt's AGU Publications

A Novel Algorithm for Ice‐Water Discrimination in Large Lakes Using ICESat‐2 Altimetry and Data Driv...
Large freshwater lakes are critical for human life, ecosystem functioning, and the global carbon cycle. However, consistent high‐resolution m...
June 07, 2025

Coincident Lake Drainage and Grounding Line Retreat at Engel...
September 14, 2024

Role of Snowfall Versus Air Temperatures for Greenland Ice S...
November 27, 2023

Multi‐Decadal Record of Sensible‐Heat Polynya Variability Fr...
November 21, 2023
Matt’s AGU Abstracts
Cryospheric Science Activities Towards Achieving NASA's Surface Topography and Vegetation Targeted Observable
SCIENCE GOALS, MEASUREMENT NEEDS, AND TECHNICAL ADVANCES TOWARD ACHIEVING NASA’S SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY AND VEGETATION TARGETED OBSERVABLE II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
Brooke Medley, Shashank Bhushan, Taryn E. Black, T...
We present a brief introduction to the Cryosphere science and applications component of the NASA Decadal Survey Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV...
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Automatically Detecting Persistent Polynyas in the Thwaites Region using Geophysically Contextualized Deep Learning
EVOLUTION OF GLACIERS IN POLAR REGIONS: NEW OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS FROM GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS II ORAL
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Ellianna Abrahams, Tasha Snow, Eojin Lee, Michael ...
Persistent sensible heat polynyas, coastal open water areas surrounded by sea ice that form from warm meltwater plumes annually in the same location, ...
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Evaluating the Yield Stress of Glacial Ice over Antarctic Blue Ice Zones
IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF ICE DEFORMATION THROUGH OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Jack Logan, Joanna D. Millstein, Matthew Siegfried...
The structural integrity of glacier ice is critical in understanding glacier and ice sheet response to climate change and quantifying future sea-level...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
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