Kyle Mattingly

I am a research scientist in the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My research investigates the complex interactions among Earth system components that determine the course of polar climate change, with a particular focus on how extreme atmospheric events affect the Greenland Ice Sheet. I use a variety of observational, modeling, and remote sensing data sources and techniques in this work. I am involved in the upcoming Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE) mission, helping to develop algorithms for matching auxiliary meteorological and satellite data to the PREFIRE spacecraft orbits.

Like many other weather geeks, my interest in atmospheric science began early in life. I was fascinated by the severe storms, tornadoes, floods, ice storms, and all the other forms of weather that I experienced personally growing up in western Kentucky as well as vicariously through hours glued to the Weather Channel. I graduated from Western Kentucky University with a B.S. in Meteorology in 2012, then moved on to graduate school at the University of Georgia Department of Geography, where I became interested in the impacts of atmospheric rivers on the polar cryosphere. I developed a polar-focused atmospheric river detection algorithm that is included in the Atmospheric River Tracking Method Intercomparison Project (ARTMIP) database. After completing M.S. (2014) and Ph.D. (2019) degrees at UGA, I continued my polar climate research as a postdoctoral associate in the Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS) at Rutgers University from 2019–2021.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or ideas for collaboration! More details on my research can be found at the following links:

• CV
• Google Scholar
• ResearchGate
• ORCID
• Github
• Twitter