Research Interests:

• Applications of geospatial technology and geophysics to study permafrost-affected landscape changes and geo-hazard, and assessing their societal and environmental impacts
• Thermal modeling of ground temperature dynamics at decade to century time scale
• Development of a sustainable socio-ecological observation network in the Arctic through citizen science
• Applications of geospatial technology and geophysics on river processes (e.g. erosion, channel shift, and bathymetry)
• Applications of geospatial technology and geophysics on freshwater ice hazard (i.e. phenology, ice thickness dangerous ice conditions, overflow ice, and spring flooding)

Projects:

• Collaborative Research: Community based permafrost and climate monitoring in rural Alaska. Funded by NSF. Role: Co-PI, Total funding: $388,641
• Sixty-five years of Colville River dynamics and its impact on the present river navigability near Nuiqsut, North Slope of Alaska. Funded by Alaska EPSCoR Seed Grant 2016. Role: PI, Total funding: $44,493
• Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic. Funded by the U. S. Department of Energy. Role: Co-Investigator, Total funding: $2,970,000
• Hot Times in Cold Places: The Hidden World of Permafrost. Funded by NSF. Role: Collaborator, Total funding: $1,560,405