
Dr Stephen Chuter
Expertise
I'm an expert in Satellite Earth Observation. I use these observations, in combination with novel data science methods, to better understand the contemporary Earth System and its response to climate change
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
School of Geographical Sciences
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Biography
I'm currently a Senior Scientific Developer at the water risk intelligence company Fathom (www.fathom.global), where my focus is on the application of Earth Observation to further understand and improve our ability to model global flood risk. As part of this role, I collaborate extensively with the University of Bristol to advance EO research in this discipline. An example of this is a current UK Space Agency project, which is investigating the application of the NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission to enhance global flood modelling accuracy.
Prior to Fathom, my research at the University of Bristol focused on the application of satellite altimetry to better understand the Cryosphere's response to climate change. I held a European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (CCI) fellowship, which better quantified the impact of contemporary land ice mass change on regional sea level variability. In addition, I was the land ice work package lead on the European Research Council (ERC) GlobalMass project, which combined a wide array of EO observations, with novel Bayesian hierarchical modelling methods, to better understand Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss.
My PhD used the European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimetry mission to better quantify the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelves. My PhD was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship and received a commendation from the Faculty of Science. Additionally, it won the University of Bristol 2018 Faculty Doctoral Prize for the Natural Environment and Life Sciences.
Prior to Fathom, my research at the University of Bristol focused on the application of satellite altimetry to better understand the Cryosphere's response to climate change. I held a European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (CCI) fellowship, which better quantified the impact of contemporary land ice mass change on regional sea level variability. In addition, I was the land ice work package lead on the European Research Council (ERC) GlobalMass project, which combined a wide array of EO observations, with novel Bayesian hierarchical modelling methods, to better understand Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss.
My PhD used the European Space Agency (ESA) CryoSat-2 satellite radar altimetry mission to better quantify the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelves. My PhD was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship and received a commendation from the Faculty of Science. Additionally, it won the University of Bristol 2018 Faculty Doctoral Prize for the Natural Environment and Life Sciences.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8087 ESA Chuter 4000133466/20/I/NB: Fingerprinting Approach To Close Regional Sea Level Budgets Using ESA-CCI
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/02/2021 to 31/01/2023
Interactive visualisation of Antarctic mass trends from 2003 until present
Principal Investigator
Description
JGI Seed Corn funded project for web visualisation of mass trends from the NERC Resolving Antarctic Mass TrEndS (RATES) project.Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/12/2018 to 01/07/2019
Global ice and ocean mass trends
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
GlobalMass is a 5 year ERC-funded project which aims to – for the first time at a global scale – rigorously combine satellite and in-situ data related to different aspects…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/08/2016 to 30/11/2022
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2023Can GPS and GRACE data be used to separate past and present-day surface loading in a data-driven approach?
Geophysical Journal International
Constructing large nonstationary spatio-temporal covariance models via compositional warpings
Spatial Statistics
Grounding line retreat and tide-modulated ocean channels at Moscow University and Totten Glacier ice shelves, East Antarctica
Cryosphere
Antarctic Grounding Zone Distributions and Migrations from ICESat-2 Laser Altimetry
A high-resolution Antarctic grounding zone product from ICESat-2 laser altimetry
Earth System Science Data