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Hélène Seroussi

Associate Professor of Engineering

+1 (603) 646-6475

helene.l.seroussi@dartmouth.edu

Professor Seroussi shares a $1 million grant from Denmark's Novo Nordisk Foundation to study ice sheets to improve projections of sea level rise.

Related Links

Ice and Sea Lab

Research Interests

Glaciology; ice sheet modeling and ice sheet contribution to sea level; ice-ocean interactions; climate science; data assimilation and inverse modeling in geosciences

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris, France 2011
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris, France 2008
  • MS, Structural Dynamics and Coupled Systems, Ecole Centrale Paris, France 2008

Awards

  • Rising Star of Science Award, Research.com, 2022
  • American Geophysical Union, Cryosphere Early Career Award, 2020
  • NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal, 2019

Professional Activities

  • Member, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Steering Committee, 2020–present
  • Member, Editorial Board of Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 2019–present
  • Member, CliC (Climate and Cryosphere) Scientific Steering Committee, 2019–present

Selected Publications

  • ISMIP6 Antarctica: a multi-model ensemble of the Antarctic ice sheet evolution over the 21st century, H. Seroussi, S. Nowicki, A.J. Payne, H. Goelzer, W.H. Lipscomb, A. Abe-Ouchi, C. Agosta, T. Albrecht, X. Asay-Davis, A. Barthel, R. Calov, R. Cullather, et al., The Cryosphere, 14:3033–3070, 2020.
  • Present day Jakobshavn Isbræ close to the Holocene minimum extent, K. Kajanto, H. Seroussi, B. de Fleurian, and K.H. Nisancioglu, Quaternary Sci. Rev., 246(106492), 2020.
  • History, mass loss, structure, and dynamic behavior of the Antarctic ice sheet, R.E. Bell and H. Seroussi, Science, 367(6484):1321–1325, 2020.
  • Marine ice sheet instability amplifies and skews uncertainty in projections of future sea-level rise, A.A. Robel, H. Seroussi, and G.H. Roe, PNAS, 2019.
  • Influence of a West Antarctic mantle plume on ice sheet basal conditions, H. Seroussi, E.R. Ivins, D.A. Wiens, and J. Bondzio, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122:7127–7155, 2017.
  • Continued retreat of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, controlled by bed topography and ocean circulation, H. Seroussi, Y. Nakayama, E. Larour, D. Menemenlis, M. Morlighem, E. Rignot, and A. Khazendar, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44:6191–6199, 2017. 2017GL072910.

Courses

  • ENGS 20: Introduction to Scientific Computing
  • ENGG 199.13: Numerical Modeling of Glacier and Ice Sheet Dynamics

Videos

Professor Studies Ice Sheets to Predict Sea-Level Rise

Ice Sheet Evolution—Combining observations and models to improve future projections (Seminar)

News

Dartmouth Engineering Professor Hélène Seroussi Receives Presidential Early Career Award
Jan 22, 2025
Study Shows Sea-Level Rise for Future Generations Is Highly Dependent on Emission Levels
Sep 04, 2024
Study Finds Highest Prediction of Sea-Level Rise Unlikely
Aug 21, 2024
To Better Predict Sea-Level Rise, a Professor Travels to the Source
Mar 22, 2024
Dartmouth Researchers Collaborate to Better Predict Sea-Level Rise
Oct 18, 2023
Bridge Builder
Jan 20, 2023
Meet Dartmouth's Newest Faculty Members
Mar 29, 2022
Welcome: New Faculty
Dec 01, 2021
Dartmouth Engineering Welcomes Seven New Faculty
Oct 18, 2021

In the News

The New York Times
In Greenland, the Ice Doesn't Just Flow, It Quivers and Quakes
Feb 06, 2025
The Cool Down
Scientists issue warning over new findings about Antarctica's ice sheet
Oct 11, 2024
Earth.com
When will the Antarctic ice sheet collapse?
Sep 15, 2024
Innovation News Network
Antarctic ice melt to cause catastrophic sea-level rise by 2300, study warns
Sep 13, 2024
Nature
First Map of an Ice Shelf's Bottom Reveals Mysterious Melt Patterns
Jul 31, 2024
NPR
A New Study Points to a Key Window of Opportunity to Save Greenland's Ice Sheet
Oct 18, 2023
The Washington Post
A Greenland glacier's rapid melting may signal faster sea level rise
May 11, 2023
Alaska Native New
Unexpected Melting of Greenland Glacier Could Double Sea-Level Rise Projections
May 09, 2023

Research Quick Takes

Dec 14, 2023

Minimizing Climate Uncertainty

Professor Hélène Seroussi is first author on "Insights into the vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers from the ISMIP6 ice sheet model ensemble and associated uncertainty" published in The Cryosphere. "These results come from an international effort that I led to understand the sources of uncertainty in projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level rise, and highlight the need to continue improving ice flow models," says Seroussi.

Professor Hélène Seroussi headshot.

May 11, 2023

Unpredictable Melting

Professor Hélène Seroussi is quoted in, "A Greenland Glacier's Rapid Melting May Signal Faster Sea Level Rise" published in The Washington Post. "We are many years away from implementing these processes correctly in numerical models," Seroussi said. "It is important to understand that there are always long delays between the discovery of a new process and its inclusion in numerical models as these processes need to be perfectly understood from a physical point of view." (Picked up by CHRON. Similar coverage in Common Dreams and Alaska Native News.)