Awarded a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Foundation Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship to study debris covered glaciers in New Zealand. Find out more here.
A recent article in Discover magazine's Drone 360 discussing my research.
Glacier-mapping drone soars to nearly 5000 meters, setting a record
Recent write up and video in Science about my paper in The Cryosphere.
Article in Glacier Hub discussing recent paper in Global and Planetary Change
Glacier loss and hydro-social risks in the Peruvian Andes
New publication in Global and Planetary Change, discusses our findings from a large transdisciplinary research project in the Cordillera Blanca Peru.
Article in Glacier Hub discussing recent paper in The Cryosphere
Monitoring tropical debris-covered glacier dynamics from high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry, Cordillera Blanca, Peru
New publication in The Cryosphere, uses drones to investigate changes over a debris covered tropical glacier in Peru's Cordillera Blanca.
High altitude kite mapping: evaluation of kite aerial photography (KAP) and structure from motion digital elevation models in the Peruvian Andes
A recent publication documenting some of my kite mapping work in the Peruvian Andes is now out in the International Journal of Remote Sensing.
360 Video from the 2016 Field Season in Peru
Tech Briefs - Customized Drone Maps Glaciers
Link to an article discussing my research activities in Peru
Unmanned Unplugged: Oliver Wigmore, Ohio State University
A link to a recent interview for AUVSI's Unmanned Unplugged series
Homemade Drones, Peruvian Glaciers
A recent article featuring my research was published in Undark Magazine
Ohio State is known around the world for its climate change research. Now, scientists are using new ideas to study melting glaciers in the Peruvian Andes.
High Resolution Photogrammetric DEM and Orthomosaic of Rock Glacier at Great Basin National Park
UAV Surveys at Llaca Glacier, Huascaran National Park, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, 2015
Post survey joyrides with the hexacopter at Llaca Glacier ~5000m above sea level in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca. A component of ongoing UAV based research at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University.
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Latin America Night 2015 - Understanding Watershed Complexity in Latin America
This presentation by Oliver Wigmore was part of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center's 2015 Latin America Night.