Maximilian Lowe
PhD Student
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, Chris Green, Jörg Ebbing and Daniel Goldberg.
Research interests:
- Geothermal heat flow
- 3D Lithospheric modelling with satellite and airborne gravity & magnetic data
- Solid Earth – Cryosphere interactions
- Probabilistic modelling and inversion
- Glacial isostatic adjustment
- Tectonophysics
Grants awarded:
- Small IT grant, School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh, £ 1000, March 2022.
- Gray-Milne Travel Bursary, British Geophysical Association, £ 500, September 2021.
- Covid-19 Support Fund, British Geophysical Association, £ 900, June 2021.
- Student conference travel support fund, Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft, 100 €, 2019.
Experiences:
- 07/2023: IHFC heat flow summer 2023
- 03/2021: ESA 3D Earth Spring School – geodynamic 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.
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.
Talks (first author only)
- 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., 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 ORCID record for Maximilian Lowe, Mather, Ben, Green, Chris, Jordan, Tom A. ORCID record for Tom A. Jordan, Ebbing, Jörg, Larter, Robert ORCID 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 ORCID 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