The Earth’s surface is a constantly evolving interplay between multiple interacting geophysical systems. As a researcher, I am interested in how the cryosphere and landscape systems evolve together over a range of spatial and temporal scales, and how climate can both force and be forced by these interactions in the past, present, and future. This includes paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental investigations from alpine glaciers to rivers to lakes (and much more) as well as field, laboratory, and model-based techniques.
As an educator, I am passionate about using the natural environment to connect students and their daily lives to the earth systems around them. The rocks beneath our feet and the processes operating on them provide an important perspective on our past, present, and future worlds. Through these experiences, students gain skills and critical reasoning approaches to tackle and of life's challenges.
Dr. Pendleton joined collaborators on a 3-week expedition to the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska. Traversing rivers and glaciers, avoiding bears and mosquitoes, collecting ancient plants emerging from underneath retreating glaciers to reconstruct glacier activity.
Several PSU students who took part in NH-LIFT summer research presented their work at a Symposium at the Mount Washington Hotel.
PSU students Brayden White and Chris Shoals (above) presented their undergraduate research projects on the topographic controls of rock glaciers and paleoflooding to the community and state legislators!
PSU Faculty, recent grads, collaborators, and volunteers cored Black SPruce Bogs as part of a larger project aimed at reconstructing wildfire in the White Mountain Region of NH.
PSU student Jennifer Limoges presenting biomarker reconstructions of New Hampshire climate at AGU 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Read how a partnership with Squam Lakes Association is enabling local ice sheet history explorations.