Research Associate

Tim Hill

Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Numerical & statistical modelling of glacier hydrology, ice dynamics, sea level and the interactions of ice sheets with the broader climate system.

tim.hill@wisc.edu

PhD, Simon Fraser University 2026

Portrait of Tim Hill
Why this matters

Modelling unresolved physical processes and interactions

Mountain glaciers and the polar ice sheets are critical components of human and environmental systems that regulate the global Earth system. My work addresses critical challenges in modelling unresolved physical processes and building scalable Earth system models with interactive ice sheets.

At a glance

Current focus

Ice-sheet–climate interactions on glacial cycle timescales

Coupling Parallel Ice-Sheet Model, TRACE-21k climate model, and SELEN sea-level solver for the last 21k years.

Open, reproducible research workflows

Version-controlled, documented, and shareable workflows for numerical ice-sheet and earth-system modelling.

Recent projects

Glacier model emulation and calibration

Accelerating subglacial hydrology forward modelling, Bayesian calibration with field data, and machine-learning parameterizations of expensive physics-based models.

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