Dr. Dustin Schroeder holds faculty appointments in Geophysics and Electrical Engineering, is a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and a faculty affiliate in the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). In 2023, Dr. Schroeder was named a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University and currently serves as the Associate Chair of Geophysics.
Dr. Schroeder’s research focuses on advancing the scientific and technical foundations of geophysical ice penetrating radar and its use in observing and understanding the interaction of ice and water in the solar system. He is primarily interested in the subglacial and englacial conditions of rapidly changing ice sheets and their contribution to global sea level rise. However, a growing secondary focus of his work is the exploration of icy moons. He also works on the development and application of science-optimized geophysical radar systems and approaches problems from both an earth system science and a radar system engineering perspective. He is actively engaged with the flow of information through each step of the observational science process; from instrument and experiment design, through data processing and analysis, to modeling and inference. This allows him to draw from a multidisciplinary set of tools to test system-scale and process-level hypotheses.
Dr. Schroeder earned his B.A. in Physics, and his B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from Bucknell University in 2007, and then earned his Ph.D., in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014.