Scott Polar Research Institute, UK

APECS Council, UK Polar Network Committee

Allen is a PhD candidate studying the remote sensing of glaciers with a particular focus on applications to glacier mass balance; his current research focuses on using high resolution airborne multispectral imagery to create a glacier facies classification scheme. His recent work has included a Masters in Polar Studies at the University of Cambridge integrating airborne LiDAR and Landsat data to build a DEM of Iceland’s second largest icecap and study its changes over the past decade. Allen has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University where his senior thesis was based on an application of cosmogenic nuclide exposure age dating to building a history of the interior West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Originally attracted to polar research through a love of hiking, cross-country skiing, and just getting outside, Allen tries to spread
his love for polar science to anybody who will listen, especially through his involvement with the UK Polar Network. He also takes every chance he gets to pursue field research and, among other places, has worked in northern Namibia (with Paul Hoffman and Eugene Domack studying Snowball Earth), in southeast Alaska (with the Juneau Icefield Research Program - JIRP), and Antarctica’s Dry Valleys (with Sujoy Mukhopadhyay and Robert Ackert using cosmogenic nuclides to stuying glacial and erosional history).