⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier

Physicist. Radar specialist. Cryosphere scientist at the European Space Agency @esaclimate.
Former Svalbardian.
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[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

Farewell Longyearbyen. Takk for alt! 🇳🇴My #ArcticLife has come to an end but I'll yet be back for more adventures this summer! #Svalbard 💙 #Svalbardianer4ever

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@thames_travel will there be an ST1 Service from Harwell Campus to Oxford or not? I've been standing in the freezing cold with no information. Clearly the app times are wrong. Please advise.

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

It's time to submit a session proposal for next year's @ESA_EO Living Planet Symposium #lps25. Check out the link below for deets👇

[ESA Earth Observation @ESA_EO]

We are looking for ideas for peer-reviewed sessions for @esa's next Living Planet Symposium: https://t.co/mmnwLyLrjI

If you don't know what LPS is➡️held every 3 years (because it's a lot of work to put together😅) ESA’s Living Planet Symposia are among the world’s premier events on Earth observation.

The 2025 edition will be in Vienna.
#LPS25

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

Extremely excited that the next @ESA_EO Living Planet Symposium will take place in my hometown Vienna next year.

Save the dates: 23 - 27 June 2025

See you there!

[Simonetta Cheli @SimonettaCheli]

The best news for a Monday morning:
@esa_eo next Living Planet Symposium will take place a year from now!

When: 23-27 June 2025
Where: Austria Centre, Vienna

The focus will be on how to transition from observation to climate action and sustainability for Earth. Don't miss it!

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

In honour of today's launch: Here's a short clip from the time we went to visit the @esa #EarthCARE in the clean room on @HarwellCampus @RAL_Space_STFC

[Views from the Void @viewsvoidpod]

Views from the Void episode 2 - Ready to launch! ESA's EarthCARE mission
https://t.co/TLSxKspsVI

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

Find me at the Cryosphere sessions #EGU24

[ESA Earth Observation @ESA_EO]

Still not sure what sessions to follow at #EGU24?

Here's some inspiration if you are interested in learning a bit more about our #EarthObservation missions: https://t.co/x6jruhYNlr
#ESAatEGU

📸Credits: @EuroGeosciences

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@mggtTaylor @esa 🤗

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@rab_equipment Fab. Got my own ski touring trip to the Lofoten planned this spring - in memory of my late husband. Emotional and nervous but also very excited!

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@StefLhermitte @bert_polar @SdeRodaHusman @glacialeek @keegan_kaitlin Stef, this is great! And I really like this graph. Is there a typo for airborne effective horizontal resolution for radar altimeters? Should be m not km?

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@thames_travel Hi, can you confirm the 18:30 ST1 from Harwell Campus will be leaving on time? The online tracking system seems to imply differently. Thanks.

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

We were all a little on edge so this is fantastic news! Thanks @esaoperations 🙏

[ESA's CryoSat mission @esa_cryosat]

🤩 CryoSat lives! 🤩

⛽️ A fuel leak threatened to bring @esa's ice mission to a premature end
🕹️ At @esaoperations yesterday, we swapped to its back-up propulsion system
🥵 The back-up thrusters had never been used before, in over 13 years in space...

🥳 ...and it was a success! CryoSat flies on, to continue its unparalleled record of global ice for a good while yet

👉https://t.co/jDHKzpkgKv

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

At @ESA_EO ESRIN this week. It was great to hear all the CryoTEMPO processing teams present their work on developing improved @esa_cryosat products. Thanks for letting me join the meeting.

[ESA's CryoSat mission @esa_cryosat]

🤩 Thank you so much to all these fantastic people who joined us in ESRIN this week to discuss the next improvements to CryoTEMPO - an incredible 13+ year record of Earth's ice and water - with more soon to come 🤩

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@_SaraAparicio_ Are you presenting Sara?

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

🙋‍♀️Hands up, do I know anyone who will be attending @arcticfrontiers at the end of January?

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

@thames_travel what happened to the 18:20 ST1 service from Harwell Campus?

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

Great to have @EoCdt students at our annual @esaclimate CCI Colocation meeting.

I saw you all chatting to our project scientists at the poster session - well impressed by the level of engagement!

[SENSE Earth Observation CDT @EoCdt]

Thank you to our colleagues at ⁦@esaclimate⁩ who invited some of our students to attend their recent CCI Colocation meeting. We are really grateful for these opportunities which provide excellent career development and networking ⁦⁦

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

This @esa @NASA double-pair gravity mission is going to be phenomenal! Many exciting satellite missions currently being developed. #MAGIC

[Simonetta Cheli @SimonettaCheli]

Today, I am excited to open together with @KarenStG the first ever @esa - @nasa MAGIC Science and Applications Workshop in Assisi. Mass Change and Geosciences International Constellation (MAGIC) is the ESA-NASA concept for collaboration on a future gravity constellation.

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

The temporal evolution in surge-type glacier crevasse patterns is also visible from space. In amplitude images from synthetic aperture radar, such as @ESA_EO @CopernicusEU #Sentinel-1, this is associated with changes in backscatter intensity.

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

Big thank you to organisers of yesterday’s Remote Sensing session at @_Arctic_Circle & all participants. Such a big turnout! So much to say, so little time. Still got questions or just want to hear more about how we monitor melting ice with satellites? I’m your contact. Ping me.

[ESA's CryoSat mission @esa_cryosat]

📽️ As the #ArcticCircleAssembly takes place this week, this video shows the stark sea ice losses in the region

🥵 The Arctic is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet

🛰️ Satellites such as #CryoSat provide crucial insights into this "Arctic amplification"

🔗https://t.co/wwu72RZw6H

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

That’s tomorrow morning, obvs

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

It’ll be an early start, I know, but anyone at @_Arctic_Circle interested in how we @esa @ESA_EO @esaclimate monitor the cryosphere with satellite data 🛰️, head over to the remote sensing session in Björtuloft at 08:30am to hear me talk about diminishing ice measured from space.

[⚫ Dr Anna Maria Trofaier @WhinnyHowe]

We are so glad to have you as one of our @esaclimate CCI fellows! Great kick-off meeting yesterday. Great project. Looking forward to hearing more about your work on separating thermodynamic and dynamic sea ice thickness change in the Arctic. The next two years will be ace!

[Luisa von Albedyll @LAlbedyll]

🌍🚀 I've started my Climate Change Initiative Fellowship with @esaclimate @ESA_EO @AWI. Looking forward to unraveling the thermodynamic and dynamic sea ice thickness change in long-term satellite observations @esa and climate models. More details https://t.co/ZPTDO17EUP