Rainey Aberle

Rainey spent her formative years in Washington state, where she received bachelor’s degrees in Geosciences and Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. She 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. When she’s not on her PC, she loves cycling on the Boise Greenbelt, playing in the snow, home gardening, and playing with her cat. 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 focuses 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.