Outreach & Media

Study: Sinking ground in parts of Chesapeake Bay area will worsen flooding from rising sea levels and storm surges, Virginia Tech, Press, 2023 Issue 

Article Link

• Sherpa, S. F., Shirzaei, M., & Ojha, C. (2023). Disruptive Role of Vertical Land Motion in Future Assessments of Climate Change-Driven Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Hazards in the Chesapeake Bay, Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025993.

GLOF Risk Perception in Nepal, Himalaya Article Link

• Sherpa, S.F., Shrestha, M., Eakin, H. et al. Cryospheric hazards and risk perceptions in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Nat Hazards 96, 607–626 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-018-3560-0 

• Story and research featured in the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere (MAHB) of Stanford University , Article Link.

2024 Fox Weather live interview about rising seas.

2023 Institute at Brown for Environment and Society Feature, November Newsletter.

2023 The Brown Daily Herald, November Issue.

2019 NPR News: Spy, Via Spy Satellite: Melting Himalayan Glaciers

2019 Land-Sat-8 Sattelites for Minerals: Uncharted- Lost Dutchman Documentary Episode (Available on Amazon Prime)

2016 In Nepal National Newspaper, The Himalayan Times, Nepal (2016): When Melting Mountain Shakes.

• We created a podcast to communicate space-borne satellite (remote sensing), flooding hazards, and solid earth change-related research to children by creating a magical world of 'Geodesa and the Magic Crystal.' You can listen to our podcast at the link below. 

  • The podcast features me (Sonam Sherpa), Em Blackwell, and Logan Jensen in Episode 2 from Arizona State University. 

     Geodesa and Magic Crystal

2024 Interaction with middle school students in Garden Spot Middle School in New Holland,             Pennsylvania.

2023 NASA Earth Science Early Career Proposal Reviewer Panel Executive Secretary

2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Early Career Reviewer Group review of the Second Order Draft of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth  Assessment Report Climate Change 2021: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Water Section.

2021 Student organizer and moderator for Annual Geosciences Student Research Symposium (GSRS), Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, USA (2021).

2019 Student Volunteer at Geological Society of America at GSA Conference held in Phoenix, USA. 

2018-2020 Vice President at Nepalese Student Association at Arizona State University, USA (2018- 2020).

2011-2015 Vice President (2014-2015) , Secretary (2011-2014) Khumjung School Alumni Association. A non-profit     organization that provides mentoring and career counseling to students from remote high mountain areas, such as             Khumbu, the Everest region and provides career counseling and scholarships for higher school education 

2013 Nominated as one of the twenty youth leaders in the service-learning program “School on Wheels” Servicing communities and learning from Nepal’s Terai up to the Mountains, Organized by  Anuvuti International, Nepal, sister     organization of Teach for Nepal.