Regine Hock

Academic interests

Glacier mass balance, glacier meteorology and hydrology, modeling the response of glaciers to climate change, contribution of glacier wastage to global sea-level rise.

Courses taught

• GEO4420 – Glaciology
• Teaching at International Summer School in Glaciology, UAF, Alaska

Background

Positions held:

2020/9–present: Professor, Department of Geoscience, Oslo University

2007–2020: Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Affiliated/partial employment at UAF 2020 – present.

2013–2018: Guest Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden

2002–2007: Research fellow at Stockholm University 

2001: Post-doc at Department of Meteorology,Stockholm University

1998–2001: Senior scientist at Climate Impact Research Center, Kiruna, Sweden 

Education:

• 1998: PhD (hydrology/glaciology), ETH Zurich, Switzerland (1998)
• 1991: Diplom' (M.Sc.) in hydrology (undergraduate minors in physics and chemistry), Freiburg University, Germany (1991)
• 1991: Staatsexamen' (M.A.) in physical education/geography (high-school teaching degree), Freiburg University, Germany  (1991)
• 1987: B.Sc., Brock University, Canada (1987) (year abroad)

Scientific appointments and services

2017–2019 Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC Special Report on the Oceans and the Cryosphere in a Warming Climate

2017–2021: President of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS)

2015/1–present: Chief Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science - Cryospheric Sciences

2014–2018: Co-chair of working group of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) on the Randolph Glacier Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring, 

2015–2019: Co-chair of Targeted Activity under CliC "Glacier Model Intercomparison (GlacierMIP)"

2012–2015: Vice president of the International Glaciological Society (IGS)

2008–2016: Elective member of the council of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) 

2005–2015: Secretary of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology

2005–2011: Scientific editor of Journal of Glaciology 

2003–2009: Member of editorial board of Geografiska Annaler 

Contributing author to IPCC-4 (2007) and IPCC-5 (2013)

Member of working group on 'Mass-balance terminology and methods' by International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (2008-2011)

Lead author of glacier chapter of Arctic Council's Project on Climate Change and the Arctic Cryosphere (SWIPA), published in 2012