Yongmei Gong
About
With over nine years of experience in glaciology and climate change research, I am currently the project manager and senior researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). I work with a team of four researchers in a groundbreaking project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, investigating the drivers and societal impacts of freshwater discharge from glacial systems in Norway and the Karakoram region.
I use computer models and field observations to study the interaction between climate and glacial systems and its implications for local and global water resources, ecosystems, and human well-being. I am also interested in using multidisciplinary approaches combining natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts to assess the plural values of human-nature relationship. My mission is to advance the scientific understanding and public awareness of the critical role of glaciers in the Earth system and society.
Competencies
Research
GOTHECA-NOCK: Glacier impacts On The Hydrological systems in Europe and Central Asia -A pilot study of drivers and societal impacts of freshwater discharge from glacial systems in Norway and the Chinese Karakoram
Changing perspectives: The dynamics of nature’s contribution to people in a changing Arctic
NATURICE - Changing social and cultural values of nature: Exploring plural values of human ature relationships in glacierized environments
Publications
2018
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Gong, Yongmei;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Åström, Jan;
Altena, Bas;
Schellenberger, Thomas;
Gladstone, Rupert.
(2018)
Simulating the roles of crevasse routing of surface water and basal friction on the surge evolution of Basin 3, Austfonna ice-cap.
The Cryosphere
Academic article
2016
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Gong, Yongmei;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Cornford, Stephen L;
Gladstone, Rupert;
Schafer, Martina;
Moore, John C..
(2016)
The importance of basal and surface boundary conditions in transient simulations - A case study of a fast-flowing marine terminated glacier in Austfonna, Svalbard.
Journal of Glaciology
Academic article
2014
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Gong, Yongmei;
Cornford, Stephen L;
Payne, Tony.
(2014)
Modeling the response of Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice shelf system, East Antarctic, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st and 22nd centuries .
The Cryosphere
Academic article
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Greve, Ralf;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Gong, Yongmei.
(2014)
On the pressure dependence of the rate factor in Glen’s flow law .
Journal of Glaciology
Academic article
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Gladstone, Rupert;
Schafer, Martina;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Gong, Yongmei;
Strozzi, Tazio;
Mottram, Ruth.
(2014)
Importance of basal processes in simulations of a surging Svalbard outlet glacier.
The Cryosphere
Academic article
Journal publications
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Gong, Yongmei;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Åström, Jan;
Altena, Bas;
Schellenberger, Thomas;
Gladstone, Rupert.
(2018)
Simulating the roles of crevasse routing of surface water and basal friction on the surge evolution of Basin 3, Austfonna ice-cap.
The Cryosphere
Academic article
-
Gong, Yongmei;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Cornford, Stephen L;
Gladstone, Rupert;
Schafer, Martina;
Moore, John C..
(2016)
The importance of basal and surface boundary conditions in transient simulations - A case study of a fast-flowing marine terminated glacier in Austfonna, Svalbard.
Journal of Glaciology
Academic article
-
Gong, Yongmei;
Cornford, Stephen L;
Payne, Tony.
(2014)
Modeling the response of Lambert Glacier-Amery Ice shelf system, East Antarctic, to uncertain climate forcing over the 21st and 22nd centuries .
The Cryosphere
Academic article
-
Greve, Ralf;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Gong, Yongmei.
(2014)
On the pressure dependence of the rate factor in Glen’s flow law .
Journal of Glaciology
Academic article
-
Gladstone, Rupert;
Schafer, Martina;
Zwinger, Thomas;
Gong, Yongmei;
Strozzi, Tazio;
Mottram, Ruth.
(2014)
Importance of basal processes in simulations of a surging Svalbard outlet glacier.
The Cryosphere
Academic article
Teaching
Lecturing
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2020 Autumn and 2022 Spring
Weather- and Climate-related Natural Hazards in GEOG2020 Geophysical and biological natural hazards
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2021 Spring
The physical science basis of climate change in climate policies in GEOG3529 Signatures of glaciations and climate evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene
Supervision
2021.04 - 2025.03: Ph.D candidate co-supervisor, NTNU
2023.01 - 2024.05: Master's candidate supervisor, NTNU