Rate My Professor Pascal Sirguey

Sirguey's research interests lie in remote sensing, photogrammetry, and geospatial analytics, focusing on developing methods to map complex topography and characterize dynamic landscapes, particularly changes in mountains, glaciers, and snow. He specializes in monitoring seasonal snow variability, mapping glacier surface albedo from satellites, characterizing glacier mass balance, and detecting landslides, with applications to geophysics, vegetation dynamics, and zoology. He has received the Charles Fleming Senior Scientist Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2017, University of Otago Excellence Award in Health and Safety in 2018, Young Mountain Cartographer Award from the International Cartographic Association in 2014, New Zealand Spatial Excellence Award in Education and Professional Development in 2014, and Exceptional Thesis Award from the University of Otago in 2010. Key publications include "Landscape changes in the Kitchener Avalanche Path, Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park after the record-breaking July 2022 storm" (Sheppard et al., 2026, New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics), "Performance of global canopy height models across varied New Zealand vegetation types" (Ng et al., 2025, New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science), and highly cited paper "The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers" (2014, Journal of Glaciology). Current projects include the Matariki project quantifying environmental resources with high-resolution satellite mapping and modelling snow and catchment processes under the Deep South National Challenge. He supervises postgraduate research on snow avalanches, landslides, and coastal changes.