Past cryoGARS Students
Adam Dickson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Adam majored n Geosciences with an emphasis in Geophysics. His first course at Solano Community College during his sophomore year of high school was Physical Geography which drove his interest in geosciences and desire to learn more about the geologic processes of our world. Adam is currently working with Matlab to estimate glacier melt rates.
Alexandra Friel
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Alexandra majored in Geosciences with an emphasis in Geophysics. During her time at CryoGARS, Alexandria determined iceberg size distributions and their melt rates, and she hopes to continue this research for her Master’s degree. She is currently working building a calcimeter case for one of the geoscience labs with the goal of improving the way they conduct experiments.
Chris McCaslin
Ph.D., Geophysics
Chris was a Ph.D. student in Geophysics, McCaslin used a laser ultrasound system to study snow with varying properties and its interaction with wave propagation through snow. McCaslin was awarded the Bridge to Doctorate Fellowship by the National Science Foundation, which supported his first two years. He was then supported by the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship, a part of the National Defense Education Program through the Department of Defense. Upon graduation, McCaslin started working for the Department of Defense’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL).
Gabrielle Antonioli
Technitian
Gabrielle worked as a research technician for BSU and most recently, the 2021 SnowEx campaign during her master's program at MSU. She is currently completing a Master of Science in Snow Science at Montana State University and works for the American Avalanche Institute and Montana Alpine Guides.
Jukes Liu
Ph.D., Geophysics
Jukes Liu researched glacier dynamics and glacier responses to environmental change while pursuing a Ph.D. in Geophysics. Liu’s previous research has involved automation of data analysis workflows for big datasets corresponding to hundreds of glaciers around Greenland’s periphery. Liu manages large datasets produced from these workflows and the code associated with them, with emphasis on providing open-source tools and open-access data for the scientific community.
Maddie Gendreau
Undergraduate Lab Assistant
Madeline ("Maddie") She has since focused her interest on glaciology and understanding how changing ice/snowpack levels are being affected by climate change. Madeline worked on the use of PlanetScope images to track glacier motion.
Maia Chrichlow
Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dartmouth
Maia is an undergraduate at Dartmouth College studying Earth Sciences and Human Centered Design. Her primary research interests are the remote sensing of alpine snow, remote detection of avalanches, and investigating the impact of increased precipitation variability on the frequency, scale, and location of avalanches.
Naheem Adebisi
Ph.D., Geophysics
Naheem holds a bachelor’s degree in Surveying and Geoinformatics from the federal university of Technology Akure, Nigeria and a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Environmental Engineering from the University of Teknology Petronas, Malaysia. For his master thesis, he conducted a holistic evaluation of the current and future trend in coastal sea level and shoreline dynamics across the 21 tide gauge stations along Malaysia coastline using geospatial technology and machine learning. At CryoGARS, is research focuses on investigating InSAR and machine learning techniques for estimating snow.
Phoebe Kinzelman
Master’s Student
Phoebs joined CryoGARS as a Master’s student advised by Dr. Ellyn Enderlin. Her research focused on analysing time series of terminus positions and discharge change of marine-terminating glaciers in Greenland.
Rainey Aberle
Ph.D., Geophysics
Rainey fostered her love for glaciology during her undergraduate research experience at Mount Rainier working with Dr. Claire Todd. Her research interests include glacier and snow cover dynamics, remote sensing, and water resources. She recently finished her MS Geophysics work assessing controls on ice dynamics at Crane Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula using a numerical ice flow model. Her PhD work with Prof. Ellyn Enderlin focused on image processing techniques for analyzing iceberg size distributions in Antarctica, snow cover in mountainous regions, and seasonal trends in mass and stress balance at Wolverine Glacier, Alaska.
Zach Hoppinen
Ph.D., Geophysics
Zachary's research studied radars and infrasound remote sensing of snow and avalanches. Specifically her focuses on using car-mounted, airborne, and satellite-based interferometric Synthetic Aperture radar to measure snow properties, comparing measured and model snow temperature gradients in alpine snowpacks, and evaluating the impact of snow burial on avalanche and earthquake infrasound monitoring. He received his master's degree at Montana State University in the Snow and Avalanche laboratory, where he focused on detecting avalanches using SAR satellites.