Elizabeth Case
Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolElizabeth Case is a glaciologist and interdisciplinary researcher with 11 years of experience studying polar ice dynamics, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University focused on the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Trained with a PhD from Columbia and a background in physics and engineering from UCLA and Cornell, she brings strong fieldwork expertise, radar instrumentation (ApRES), firn-process modeling, and outreach experience. Her career blends rigorous science with science communication and creative practice—she has led educational initiatives, co-founded Cycle for Science, and collaborates on climate-focused art projects that use projections as speculative seeds. Comfortable translating complex data for diverse audiences, she has secured competitive fellowships and grants and co-organized technical workshops, reflecting both technical depth and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Columbia University in the City of New YorkMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Cornell UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Spanish, German
Github Skills (134)
wps10
gdal10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
qgis10
tms10
shapefile10
system-information10
geotools10
gis10
ogc9
computer-vision9
image-processing9
data-management9
geographical-information-system9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ldeo-glaciology/phase-sensitive-radar-processing
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
For storing, creating, & modifying code to process (A)pRES data
Contributions:24 commits, 11 pushes, 2 comments in 4 months
storingpythonanalyzer
Elizabethcase/elizabethcase.github.io
Dec 2019 - Sep 2023
Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 167 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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