Brief bio

Dr. Kelly MacGregor is a professor of Geology at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. She has a B.A. in Geology from Williams College, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from UC Santa Cruz. She is a geomorphologist with a focus on glacial erosion in alpine landscapes, with expertise in numerical modeling of glacial erosion and field work on alpine glaciers in Alaska, British Columbia and Montana. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA, examining historical changes in water and sediment transport in the Columbia River Basin. Professor MacGregor is currently working on several projects, including environmental change in Glacier National Park, and the effects of sediment on native mussels in the St. Croix and Minnesota River basins in Minnesota. She teaches courses in Environmental Geology, Geomorphology, Dynamic Earth and Global Change, Geocinema, and Surface and Groundwater Hydrology.

Dr. MacGregor spent summers in graduate school conducting research on glaciers in south-central Alaska, with the majority of her time spent on Bench Glacier, located near the Richardson Highway about a 15-minute helicopter ride from Valdez in the Chugach Range. She once spent 8 weeks on the glacier without leaving (and without taking a shower). She has also spent time in Denali National Park, the Wrangell-St. Elias range, the Kenai Peninsula, the Talkeetna Mountains, and the Washmawaptas of Alberta/British Columbia. She also spent three years working for an environmental consulting firm in New Jersey, conducting preliminary investigations and monitoring on hazardous waste sites in NY and NJ (and wearing tyvek suits!).

Outside of work, Dr. MacGregor enjoys spending time with her family and friends, long runs, cross-country skiing, seeing live music, drinking coffee, reading YA and fiction, and relaxing!