User:Ehenneken

I received my scientific training in the late 1980s at the Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands. There I wrote my Master's thesis on the then novel numerical method "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics". The main focus in this study was to test how well this method could deal with shocks. After that I did research in micro-meteorology on turbulent energy exchange over a melting ice sheet, in particular the Greenland ice sheet. This research was done in the context of climate change and sea level rise. As part of this research I spent a month retrieving data, about 50 miles up the Greenland ice sheet, near Sondre Stromfjord, Western Greenland. I left academia for a number of years, working in the Internet industry. In 2002 I started working for the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. Besides working as IT Specialist, doing software development and managing daily operations of the ADS, I do informetric and bibliometric research.