Princeton University

Torge Martin
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Princeton University/GFDL
201 Forrestal Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone: (609) 452-5307
Email: torge.martin at noaa.gov

I earned my diploma in Meteorology from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany in 2003. My studies at the Institute for Marine Research at Kiel (now IFM-GEOMAR) included Physical Oceanography, which proved valuable when I decided to focus on sea ice for my diploma thesis. Always fascinated by the Polar regions of the earth it was a direct consequence to continue my studies in the Sea Ice Physics group of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research at Bremerhaven, Germany. For my work on sea ice drift and deformation, which included participation in measurement campaings, processing of observational data and numerical model development, I was awarded a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) by the University of Bremen, Germany in 2007.
Now as a PostDoc at GFDL I extend my work to interactions of the sea-ice cover with atmosphere and oceans and I also seek to include land ice that interacts with the ocean and sea-ice into my studies. My current interests are (1) the interplay of sea-ice drift and thickness and the effects of the current changes of the state of the Arctic sea-ice cover to its dynamics, and (2) the impact of including dynamic-thermodynamic icebergs in a global coupled climate model.