{"id":1393,"date":"2010-08-23T12:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?page_id=1393"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:06:00","slug":"derek-mueller","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/people\/derek-mueller\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Derek Mueller"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>My research examines indicators and impacts of climate change in the cryosphere as well as the consequences of a warming climate (both atmospheric and oceanic) on cryospheric systems. Current interests include environmental change detection of Arctic ice shelves, sea ice and lake ice using microwave and optical remote sensing. I also study the drift and deterioration of large icebergs, known as ice islands, which are considered a hazard to navigation and offshore infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arctic ice shelves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Epishelf lakes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ice islands and icebergs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breakup of landfast sea ice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Research instrument development<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remote sensing of ice and cryospheric change detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"memberships\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memberships<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ArcticNet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arctic Institute of North America<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>American Geophysical Union<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Geophysical Union<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Glaciological Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"fellowships\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fellowships<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2009 NSERC Visiting Fellow (Canadian Ice Service)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 Roberta Bondar Fellow in Northern and Polar Studies (Trent University)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006-7 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"select-publications-can-be-found-on-dereks-wirl-website\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wirl.carleton.ca\/publications-ice\/\">Select publications can be found on Derek&#8217;s WIRL website.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23394,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Professor Derek","cu_people_last_name":"Mueller","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[20],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1393","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Arctic science; Climate change; Cryospheric change","cu_people_degree":"B.Sc. Hons (Trent), M.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (Laval)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"derek.mueller@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1984","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/wirl.carleton.ca\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32170,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1393\/revisions\/32170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}