Field Work
Ski-based ground validation field campaign for ICESat-2 snowpack depth measurements in the Southern California mountains
Independent Research with the UC San Diego Alpine Club ∣ April 2023, San Bernardino National Forest, CA, USA
During the record-breaking California snow year of 2022-23 I planned and independent two-day ICESat-2 snow depth ground validation campaign in the backcountry of the San Bernardino mountains, leading a field team of graduate students that I recruited from the UC San Diego Alpine Club.
This project has been taken over by Scripps Polar Center PhD Student Chance Roberts with funding from the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Anticipating Rates of Deglaciation in Alaska: Controls on The Mass Loss and Morphology of The Debris Covered Terminus of Kennicott Glacier, Wrangell - St. Elias National Park
University of Alaska Fairbanks & National Science Foundation ∣ May 2022 - Jun 2022, McCarthy, AK, USA
During this field project in Summer 2022 I learned how to assemble weather stations in the field and measure ablation rates and meltwater fluxes on mountain glaciers. (Field lead: Eric Petersen)
United States Antarctic Program: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project, 2019-20 Geophysics Team
United States Antarctic Program & National Science Foundation ∣ Oct 2019 - Dec 2019, McMurdo Station / Siple Dome, Antarctica
A field season on the Siple Coast with the SALSA Antarctica geophysics team gave me an introduction to ground-based Antarctic field work using phase-sensitive radar, GPS stations, fibre-optic distributed temperature sensors and terrestrial laser scanners. (Field lead: Matt Siegfied)
