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Office: 411 Hochstetter Hall
Phone: 716.645.4325
Email: bcsatho@buffalo.edu
Website: Home Page
Title: Associate Professor
Degree: PhD, Geophysics, University of Miskolc, Hungary, 1993
Specialty: Remote sensing, glaciology, climate change, geophysics |
Courses Offerings
GLY 465/565 Environmental Remote Sensing
GLY 441/541 Geophysics
GLY 560 GIS for Earth Scientist
GLY 572 Advanced Optical and Infrared Spectral Remote Sensing
GLY TBD Glaciology
Research Interests
Research interests: ice sheet mass balance and dynamics, remote sensing of the cryosphere, laser altimetry (lidar sensing) geologic controls on ice flow, data fusion
Current Students
- Gregory Babonis, PhD, NASA ESSF fellow, Investigating Subglacial Controls on Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamics
- Soroush Rezvan-Behbahani, MS, Greenland Ice Sheet mass balance, climate vs. dynamic controls
- David McCormick, MS, Investigating different outlet glacier forcing mechanisms
- Robert Wheelwright, MS, Ice sheet remote sensing studies
- Nicholas Dahn, MS, Subglacial volcanism in Greenland
Former Students
- Justin Rich, MS, Characterizing polar landscapes using object-oriented multi-resolution analysis
- Heather Stewart, MS, Climate vs. dynamic forcing of Greenland’s largest glacier: A study of Jakobshavn Isbræ’s response to the Little Ice Age
- Melissa Zelazny, MS, Lineament Mapping using Remote Sensing Techniques and Structural Geology for CO2 Sequestration Site Characterization in Central New York State
Current Post Doc
- Dr. Sudhagar Nagarajan, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Research interest: digital photogrammetry, feature based registration methods, data fusion,
laser scanning data acquisition and analysis
Former Post Docs
- Dr. Taehun Yoon, PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Recent Publications
van der Veen C. J., Y. Ahn, B. M.
Csatho, E. Mosley-Thompson, W. B. Krabill, 2009. Surface roughness over the
northern half of the Greenland Ice Sheet from airborne laser altimetry. Journal
of Geophysical Research, 114, F01001, doi:10.1029/2008JF001067.
Csatho, B., T. Schenk, P. Kyle, T. Wilson and W.B. Krabill, 2008. Airborne laser
swath mapping of the summit of Erebus volcano, Antarctica: Applications to geological
mapping of a volcano. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 177, 531-548,
doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores. 2008.08.016.
Csatho, B., T. Schenk, C.J. van der Veen and W.B. Krabill, 2008. Intermittent
thinning of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland, since the Little Ice Age. Journal
of Glaciology, 54(184), 131-144.
Wen, Jiahong., W. Jafeng, L. Jiying, K.C. Jezek, P.Huybrechts, B. Csatho, K.
Farness and S. Bo, 2008. Mass budget of the grounded ice in Lambert Glacier-Amery
Ice Shelf System. Annals of Glaciology, 48(1), 193-197.
Braun, A., H-R. Kim, B. Csatho, R.R.B. von Frese, 2007. Gravity-inferred crustal
thickness of Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 262, 138-158.
Forman, S.L., L. Marin, C.J. van der Veen, C. Tremper and B. Csatho, 2007. Little
Ice Age and neoglacial landforms at the Inland Ice margin, Isunguata sermia,
west Greenland. Boreas, 36(4), 341-351.
Van der Veen, C.J., T. Leftwich, R. Von Frese, B.M. Csatho and J. Li, 2007.
Subglacial topography and geothermal heat flux: potential interactions with
drainage of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L12501,
doi:10.1029/2007GL030046.
Selected other publications:
van der Veen, C.J. and B. Csatho, 2005. Spectral characteristics of Greenland
lichens. Geographie et Physique Quaternaire, 59(1), 63-73.
Csatho, B., C.J. van der Veen and C. Tremper, 2005. Trimline mapping from multispectral
Landsat ETM+ imagery. Geographie et Physique Quaternaire, 59(1), 49-62.
Csatho, B., Y. Ahn, T. Yoon, C.J. van der Veen, S. B. Spikes, G. Hamilton, D.
Morse, and S. Vogel, 2005. ICESat measurements reveal complex patterns of thickness
changes on Siple Coast ice streams, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters,
32, L23S04, doi:1029/2005GL024289.
Csatho, B., T. Schenk, W. Krabill, T. Wilson, W. Lyons, G. McKenzie, C. Hallams,
S. Manizade and T. Paulsen, 2005. Airborne laser scanning for high-resolution
mapping of Antarctica EOS, 86(25), 237-238.
Studinger, M., D. Bromwich, B. Csatho, R. Muench, T, Parish and J. Stith, 2005.
Science opportunities for a long-range Antarctic Research Aircraft (LARA). EOS,
86(4), 39-40.
Krabill, W., E. Hanna, P. Huybrechts, W. Abdalati, J. Cappelen, B. Csatho, E.
Frederick, S, Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, and J. Yungel,
2004. Greenland Ice Sheet: Increased coastal thinning. Geophysical Research
Letters, 31(24), doi:L24402, 10.1029/2004GL021533.
Filin, S., and B. Csatho, 2002. Improvement of elevation accuracy for mass balance
monitoring using in-flight laser calibration. Annals of Glaciology, 34, 330-334.
Thomas, R., T. Akins, B. Csatho, M. Fahnestock, P. Gogineni, C. Kim, and J.
Sonntag, 2000. Mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet at high elevations. Science,
289(5478), 426-428.
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