I am a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA working with Prof. David Rounce (for more, see the CryoTartans research group).

My research is focused on understanding current and future glacier mass changes through in-situ measurements, remote sensing, and modeling. Specifically, I am interested in:

• glacier field methods at high spatiotemporal resolution (e.g., GNSS, ice-penetrating radar, time-lapse systems)
• glacier reconstruction from historical photographs (e.g., structure-from-motion photogrammetry, image feature-tracking)
• glacier evolution model calibration with disparate datasets (e.g., glacier modeling)

Background

I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA before attending Brown University for my undergraduate studies and returning to Pittsburgh for graduate school. I came to Carnegie Mellon to study glaciology as it combined my background in engineering with my passion for the environment. Outside of research, I enjoy playing soccer, chess, hiking, and supporting the Pittsburgh sports teams.

Latest research and news

2025/10
Presented at Northwest Glaciologists meeting in Kananaskis, Alberta. "Seasonal progression of melt and snowlines in Alaska from SAR reveals impacts of warming"

2025/10
Excited to be a co-chair for a new IACS Working Group entitled "Continuity approaches for mass balance Intercomparison eXercise (ContinuIX)." The working group is aimed at developing methodologies to invert glacier surface mass balance from remote sensing datasets!

2025/08
New paper out in Nature Communications! "An 85-year record of glacier change and refined projections for Kennicott and Root Glaciers, Alaska" [doi]

2025/08
Successful fall trip to Gulkana Glacier! We took seasonal mass balance measurements and removed 5 GNSS systems from the field.

2025/04
Attended FieldEX workshop on glacier safety and preparedness in Finse, Norway. Great to brush up on field safety skills and meet new people!

2025/03
Dissertation proposal defense. Officially a PhD candidate!

2024/12
Presented research at AGU24 in Washington, DC. "Parsing glacier mass balance and flux divergence: challenges and implications of direct field measurements on remote sensing solutions" [abstract]

2024/11
New paper out in the Journal of Glaciology! "GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence" [doi]

2024/10
Presented at Northwest Glaciologists meeting in Fairbanks, AK. "Understanding past and future change through historical aerial photographs on Kennicott and Root glaciers, Alaska"

2024/08
Successful fall field campaign on Gulkana Glacier! We serviced 6 GNSS sites and prepped them for measurements in the winter.