Maximilian Lowe

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Maximilian Lowe

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Maximilian Lowe

Biography

Hello, I am Max, a SENSE CDT PhD student in geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Edinburgh. I work on lithospheric properties and surface heat flow in Antarctica using mainly airborne and satellite gravity and magnetic measurements combined with sparse petrological data. I investigate crustal and lithospheric structures by inverse modelling and forward modeling in 2D and 3D.

 

PhD supervisors: Robert Larter, Tom Jordan, Chris Green, Jörg Ebbing and Daniel Goldberg.

 

Research interests:

  • Heat flow in polar regions
  • 3D Lithospheric modelling with satellite and airborne gravity & magnetic data
  • Solid Earth – Cryosphere interactions
  • Probabilistic modelling and inversion
  • Tectonophysics

 

Grants awarded:

 

Experiences:

  • 07/2023: IHFC Heat Flow Summer School 2023
  • 03/2021: ESA 3D Earth Spring School – Geodynamics and Solid Earth
  • 10/2020 – present: PhD student, University of Edinburgh & British Antarctic Survey.
  • 11/2019 – 09/2020: Researcher, Kiel University, working group: Satellite and Aerogeophysics.
  • 10/2016 – 09/2019: Msc. Geophysics, University of Kiel.
  • 10/2013 – 09/2016: Bsc. Geosciences, University of Kiel.

 

Teaching:

  • Winter term (Lent term) 2024, demonstrator for cartography and GIS practicals, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Winter term 2018/2019, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic practical’s, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
  • Winter term 2018/2019, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic field measurements, Kiel University, Germany.
  • Winter term 2017/2018, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic practical’s, Kiel University, Germany.
  • Winter term 2017/2018, demonstrator for gravimeter and magnetic field measurements, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.

 

Memberships:

2023 -present: Royal Astronomical Society Fellow

2023 – present: British Geophysical Association 

2020 – 2022: American Geophysical Union

2020 – present: European Geosciences Union

2018 – present: Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft (German Geophysical Association)

Google Scholar, ORCID,  ResearcherID, scopus, GitHub, ResearchGate, LinkedIn.

 

Research articles:

  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R. (2023): Anomalously high heat flow regions beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica inferred from Curie depth, JGR: Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025423.
  • Lowe, M., Ebbing, J., El-Sharkawy, A. and Meier, T. (2021): Gravity effect of Alpine slab segments based on geophysical and petrological modelling, Solid Earth, 12, 691–711, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-691-2021.

 

Under review:

  • Lowe, M., Jordan T., Moorkamp M., Ebbing J., Green C., Lösing, M. and Larter R. (2023): The 3D crustal structure of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, based on joint inversion of gravity and magnetic data using variation of information, JGR: Solid Earth, [Preprint].
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Koglin, N., Ruppel, A., Moorkamp, M., Läufer, A., Green, C., Liebsch, J., Ginga, M. and Larter, R. (2024), Verification of susceptibility and density relationship based on joint inversion of gravity and magnetic data with petrological laboratory measurements in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, Geophysical Journal International.

 

Data sets: 

  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Koglin, N., Ruppel, A., Moorkamp, M., Green, C., Laufer, A., Liebsch, J., Ginga, M., & Larter, R. (2024). Density and susceptibility catalogue of 320 rock samples from northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9ac70954-80aa-45af-b70f-e4e45efa8293
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Koglin, N., Ruppel, A., Moorkamp, M., Green, C., Laufer, A., Liebsch, J., Ginga, M., & Larter, R. (2024). 3D susceptibility distribution model derived from 2010 BGR magnetic survey of the Mesa Range in northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/ff3798b8-146f-42c2-870e-64c738970350
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Green, C., Losing, M., & Larter, R. (2023). 3D density and susceptibility distribution of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin and Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctica. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/5e1424e7-124d-4cc3-ba06-b2285c0b458c
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., & Larter, R. (2022). Curie Point Depths  and Geothermal heat flow estimates from spectral analysis of magnetic data in the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin region. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b8dcbaa9-3ac0-42bd-95a5-6b5961cbcb7e

 

Talks (first author only)

  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T,. Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Koglin, N., Ruppel A., Green, C., Liebsch, J., Ginga, M. and Larter, R.: Verification of susceptibility and density relationship from 3D joint inversion of airborne magnetic and gravity data in northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica, with petrophysical measurements, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2024. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Constraining subglacial geology with geophysical joint inversion of airborne gravity and magnetic data combined with petrophysical measurements in Victoria Land and the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, Geo-Seminar at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland, 9th of April 2024. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Constraining subglacial geology with geophysical joint inversion of airborne gravity and magnetic data combined with petrophysical measurements in Victoria Land and the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, Earth Science Research Group Seminar, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 3rd of April 2024. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Moorkamp, M., Green C., Koglin N., Ruppel A., Läufer, A., Liebsch, J., Lösing M., Liebsch, J., Ginga, M., and Larter R.: Constraining subglacial geology with airborne geophysics, SENSE CDT x British Antarctic Survey Networking Day, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 02/2024.
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Green C., Koglin N., Liebsch, J., Lösing M., Ruppel A. and Larter R.: Constraining subglacial geology with geophysical joint inversion and petrophysics in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin and Transantarctic Mountains, SCAR INSTANT, Trieste, Italy, 09/2023. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Anomalously high heat flow regions beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica inferred from Curie depth, Antarctica heat flow workshop, Potsdam, Germany, 07/2023. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Green, C., Lösing, M., and Larter, R.: The 3D crustal structure of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica and its implication on local geothermal heat flow, BAS Science symposium, Cambridge, UK, 06/2023. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Anomalously high heat flow regions beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica inferred from Curie depth, Palaeo Environments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change team (PICC) seminar, Cambridge, UK, 06/2023. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Jordan, T., Moorkamp, M., Ebbing, J., Ruppel, A., Koglin, N., Green, C., Lösing, M., and Larter, R.: Constraining subglacial geology using mutual information inversion of gravity and magnetic data in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin and Transantarctic Mountains of East Antarctica, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 2023. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Goldberg, D., and Larter, R.: Constraining geothermal heat flow beneath the Antarctic ice sheet using gravity and magnetic data, SENSE Industry Symposium, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2022. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Hot Mountains in Antarctica: high heat flow imaged beneath the northern Transantarctic Mountains from Curie Point depths estimations, BAS Student Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom, October 2022. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Hot Mountains in Antarctica, The British Geophysical Association (BGA) Postgraduate Research in Progress (PGRiP), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2022. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Mather, B., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Elevated heat flow beneath the northern Transantarctic Mountains imaged by spectral analyses of high-resolution aeromagnetic measurements, SCAR Open Science Conference (digital), 2022. [Slides]
  • Lowe, M., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Geothermal heat flux in Wilkes Subglacial Basin and Transantarctic Mountains, Working group: Satellite and Aerogeophysics, Kiel University, 2022.
  • Lowe, M., Green, C., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J., Goldberg, D. and Larter, R.: Unveiling lithosphere heterogeneity and thermal structures beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, Postgraduate Research Conference, School of GeoScience, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, digital, 2021.
  • Lowe, M., Ebbing J., El-Sharkawy A. and Meier T., From seismological imaging to geophysical and petrological modelling of the subducting lithosphere in the Alpine region, DGG General Assembly, Germany, digital, 2020.
  • Lowe, M., Sudhaus, H. and Ebbing, J.: Searching regional slow ground motion using velocities of German SAPOS stations, Arbeitskreis Geodäsie/Geophysik, Zugspitze, Germany, 2018
  • Lowe, M., Sudhaus, H. and Ebbing, J.: Searching regional slow ground motion using velocities of German SAPOS stations, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 2018

 

Poster (first author only)

  • Lowe, M.: Imagining crustal properties using gravity and magnetic data coupled with petrological information in East Antarctica, SENSE Industry Symposium, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, November 2023.
  • Lowe, M., Green, C., Mather, B., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Geothermal heat flow beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin, SENSE Industry Symposium, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2022. [Poster]
  • Lowe, M., Green, C., Mather, B., Jordan, T., Ebbing, J. and Larter, R.: Geothermal heat flow beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, May 2022. [Poster]
  • Lowe, M., Ferraccioli, F., Later, R., Green, C., Goldberg, D. and Ebbing, J.: Estimating geothermal heat flow in Antarctica based on integrated geophysical modelling, BAS Student Symposium, Cambridge, United Kingdom, October 2021.  [Poster]
  • Lowe, M., Ferraccioli, F., Young, D., Blankenship, D., Armadillo, E., Siegert, M. and Ebbing, J.: Unveiling lithosphere heterogeneity beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin, EGU General Assembly, digital, 2021. [Poster]
  • Lowe M.,  Ferraccioli F., Armadillo E., Young D. A., Blankenship D. D., Siegert M. J. and Ebbing J. – New study targets modelling crust and lithosphere heterogeneity in the Wilkes Subglacial Basin of East Antarctica, AGU General Assembly, digital, 2020. [Poster]
  • Lowe M., Ebbing J., El-Sharkawy A. and Meier T. – Gravity effect of Alpine slab segments based on geophysical and petrological modelling, EGU General Assembly, digital, 2020. [Poster]
  • Lowe M., Ebbing J., Szwillus W., Spooner C., El-Sharkawy A. and Meier T. – Testing the Alpine slab hypotheses with gravity data, AlpArray & SPP 4DMB Scientific Meeting, Frankfurt (Main), Germany, 2019. [Poster]
  • Lowe M., Ebbing J., El-Sharkawy A. and Meier T. – Sensitivity study on separation of crustal and mantle contribution to the Alpine gravity Field, DGG General Assembly, Braunschweig, Germany, 2019. [Poster]

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2023

Lowe, Maximilian ORCIDORCID record for Maximilian Lowe, Mather, Ben, Green, Chris, Jordan, Tom A. ORCIDORCID record for Tom A. Jordan, Ebbing, Jörg, Larter, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Larter. (2023) Anomalously high heat flow regions beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica inferred from Curie depth. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128. 20 pp. 10.1029/2022JB025423

2021

Lowe, Maximilian ORCIDORCID record for Maximilian Lowe, Ebbing, Jörg, El-Sharkawy, Amr, Meier, Thomas. (2021) Gravity effect of Alpine slab segments based on geophysical and petrological modelling. Solid Earth, 12. 691-711. 10.5194/se-12-691-2021