ProfessorWolfgang Rack

Director of Gateway Antarctica

School of Earth and Environment

  • Director of Gateway Antarctica
    School of Earth and Environment
  • Professor
    School of Earth and Environment
  • +6433695960 (Work)
  • Beatrice Tinsley Rm 413

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • COURSE TAUGHT
    6 Oct 2025
    GEOG208
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Changes in glacier velocity and mass flux through satellite remote sensing
    1 Apr 2022
    Nathanael, Andrews
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Classification of Frazil Ice along the Victoria Land Coast, Antarctica, using Satellite Mapping
    1 Apr 2022
    King, Sarah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Satellite based iceberg mapping during the NZMS AOTEAROA voyage in the Ross Sea
    1 Apr 2022
    Washington, Julian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Using Synthetic Aperture Radar to Monitor the End of Summer Snowline of New Zealand Glaciers
    1 Apr 2021 - 18 Nov 2021
    Boyland, Daniel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    A Comparison of Satellite and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Imagery in Adverse Conditions: A Case Study in Franz Josef, West Coast, New Zealand
    30 Nov 2020 - 24 Jun 2021
    Lama, Shrota Shrestha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Melting and Deformation of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, by Multi-Year Phase Sensitive Radio Echo Sounding
    1 Mar 2020 - 30 Apr 2021
    Snodgrass, Joseph
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Weddell seal monitoring in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: a novel approach
    1 Feb 2020 - 11 Jun 2021
    Shanelle, Dyer
  • COURSE TAUGHT
    Antarctica and Global Change
    15 Jul 2019 - 3 Apr 2023
    ANTA201
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ice Tongue stability in a changing climate
    1 Jun 2019
    Gomez Fell, Rodrigo
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Remote sensing of Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms in a warming world
    1 Mar 2019 - 24 Feb 2020
    Montie, Shinae
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Antarctic Sea Ice Data Collection
    1 Aug 2018 - 31 Aug 2020
    McDiarmid, Campbell Stefan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Processes and feedbacks associated with iceberg calving and subaqueous terminus morphology, Tasman/Haupapa Glacier, New Zealand
    1 Feb 2018 - 13 Sep 2019
    Lindsay, Jessie L
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sea ice characteristics and volume flux in the western Ross Sea through high-resolution satellite imagery and altimetry
    1 Nov 2016 - 31 Mar 2021
    Farooq, Usama
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Tide Induced Velocity Fluctuations in the Grounding Zone of
    1 Jun 2016 - 1 Jan 2017
    Scheffler, Ekkehard Michael
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Spatial analysis of ice flow velocity for three New Zealand glaciers using Landsat 8 data
    4 Apr 2016 - 31 Oct 2017
    Rowan, Errin Jack
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interactions between an Antarctic ice shelf and land-fast sea ice detected by in-situ and satellite measurements
    1 Oct 2015 - 16 Jul 2020
    Brett, Gemma Marie
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ice properties in the ice shelf grounding zone of McMurdo Ice Shelf measured by advanced ground penetrating radar systems
    1 Jan 2015 - 28 Oct 2016
    Ryan, Michelle
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Identifying the surface accumulation on the Ross Ice Shelf by analysing isotopic oxygen ratios
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 Jan 2016
    Arnold, M
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Interactions Between Changing Weather Patterns and the Antarctic Cryosphere in the Ross Sea Region
    1 Jan 2015 - 1 May 2019
    Dale, Ethan Robert
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Measurements and Modelling of Tidal Ice-Shelf Flexure in Antarctic Grounding Zones
    1 Oct 2014 - 19 Dec 2018
    Wild, C
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ice velocity and mass balance study of the Skelton Glacier, Antarctica, using remote sensing and GIS techniques
    1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    McLay, N
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Assessment of Antarctic sea ice by surface validated satellite measurements
    1 Jan 2011 - 10 Dec 2014
    Price, Dan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Snowweb in Antarctica
    1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2016
    Jolly, Ben
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Estimation of the near-surface air temperature and soil moisture from satellites and numerical modelling in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2010 - 1 Jan 2013
    Sohrabinia, M