Kimberly Huppert (she/her)
CUNY City College of New York and Graduate Center https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/profiles/kimberly-huppert
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences khuppert@ccny.cuny.edu
Marshak Science Building Room 718 T: (212) 650-6318
160 Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031
Appointments
Assistant professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, CUNY City College of New York 2022 -
Assistant professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center 2022 -
Research group leader, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2021 - 2022
Senior research scientist, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2019 - 2022
Postdoctoral research scientist, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2017 - 2018
Graduate student research and teaching assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011 - 2017
Education
Ph.D. Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2017
Dissertation: Climatic and geodynamic influences on ocean island geomorphology (Advisor: J. Taylor Perron)
S.B. Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2011
Awards & certifications
MIT School of Science Spot Award 2014
MIT Presidential Graduate Fellowship 2011
AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, Earth & Planetary Surface Processes 2011
Engineer-in-Training, National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, State of Massachusetts 2011
Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society 2010
Invited talks
ETH Zürich, Earth Surface Dynamics Seminar 2024
Columbia University Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory Geodynamics Seminar 2023
Montclair State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Sustainability Seminar 2023
CUNY City College of New York, Department of Biology Colloquium 2023
CUNY Queens College, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences Colloquium 2023
CUNY Graduate Center, Geography, Earth Science, & Oceanography Seminar 2022
ETH Zürich, Earth Surface Dynamics Seminar 2022
AGU Earth & Planetary Surface Processes, EPSP Connects Seminar 2022
CUNY City College of New York, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar 2022
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Earth & Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group 2021
Ruhr University Bochum, Institute for Geology, Mineralogy, & Geophysics Colloquium 2021
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geomorphology Seminar 2021
University of Cambridge, Volcanology Seminar 2021
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Geodynamics Program 2021
North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences Colloquium 2021
University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences Colloquium 2020
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Geoscience Weeks Lecture 2020
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Geoscience Research Division Colloquium 2020
University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences Colloquium 2020
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Earth & Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group 2018
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences-PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Workshop 2018
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Earth Surface Process Modelling Seminar 2018
European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Geomorphology Program 2018
University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics Colloquium 2018
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Colloquium 2018
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Geomorphology Seminar 2017
Sediment Experimentalists Network Workshop, Tsukuba, Japan 2017
UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Tectonics & Seismology Seminar 2017
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Volcanology, Geochemistry, & Petrology Focus Group 2016
Field & laboratory experience
Sampling for thermochronology and surface exposure dating, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, CO, USA 2024
Field camera installation, Caspar Creek Experimental Watershed, CA, USA 2019
Rain radar and groundwater monitoring site surveying, Taroko National Park, Taiwan 2019
Shallow subsurface seismic imaging and seismic station installation, Orkney Islands, Scotland 2018 - 2019
Laterite sampling for geochemical analyses, São Miguel and Santa Maria, Azores 2018
Paleoshoreline surveys and lake carbonate sampling for U/Th dating, Altiplano, Chile 2015
Sample preparation and measurements for 3He cosmogenic exposure dating, Harvard University 2012 - 2014
Channel surveys and sediment sampling for cosmogenic exposure dating, Kaua‘i, HI, USA 2012
Geologic mapping of a metamorphic complex, Kilbeck Hills, Mohave Desert, CA, USA 2012
Wave tank construction and experiments, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010 - 2011
External service
AGU Earth and Planetary Surface Processes (EPSP) Fall Meeting Program Committee 2024 -
Search committee member for Editor-in-Chief of JGR: Earth Surface 2024
Faculty mentor for the NSF-funded TRANSPIRE postdoctoral researcher research development training program 2023
Reviews:
Journals: Geology; The Journal of Geology; Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-cubed); Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf); Computers and Geosciences; Nature Geoscience; Geophysical Research Letters; PLOS ONE; Pacific Science; Geomorphology; Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface; Earth Surface Processes and Landforms; Science Advances; Communications Earth and Environment
Funding agencies: NSF Geomorphology and Land-use Dynamics; National Science Centre Poland; NSF Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellowship; NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship; NSF Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation; NSF Geoinformatics; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Conference session convening:
AGU Fall Meeting, Tectonic and geodynamic processes encoded in landscapes 2024
AGU Fall Meeting, Fluid flow, sediment transport, and landscape evolution in fluvial systems across scales 2023
EGU General Assembly, Advances in modelling of erosion, sediment dynamics, and landscape evolution 2020 - 2023
EGU General Assembly, Multidisciplinary perspectives on mantle-surface and plume-plate interactions 2022
EGU General Assembly, Landscape evolution, erosion, and sediment dynamics from source to sink 2022
AGU Fall Meeting, The role and relevance of thresholds and variability across landscapes 2018 - 2021
EGU General Assembly, Sediment transport and channel morphology in mountain rivers 2019
Outreach
Skype a Scientist video chat guest scientist in 51 kindergarten-college classrooms 2018 -
MIT Educational Council undergraduate admissions alumni interviewer 2018 - 2020
Letters to a Pre-Scientist pen-pal to a middle school prospective scientist 2018 - 2020