CV
Download slightly dated short-form CV here (last update: 19 Jan 2022).
Longer-form CV here (last update: 8 Aug 2024).
Current appointment
- 2021–: Middlebury College
- Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
- Scholarly focus: Glaciology and modern climate
- Assistant Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
Major awards
- Early Career Scientist Award – International Glaciological Society, 2021
Education
- Ph.D in Climate science, University of Michigan, 2018
- Dissertation title: Constraints on the dynamic contribution to 21st century sea level rise from Greenland outlet glaciers
- B.Sc.H. in Mathematical physics, Queen’s University, 2013
- Honours thesis title: Energy conditions with nonzero cosmological constant
Past appointments
- 2021: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Areas of focus: Ice sheet surface mass balance, stochastic modelling
- Advisor: Alex Robel
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- 2018–2021: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Postdoctoral Associate
- Areas of focus: Ice fracture, remote sensing analysis, glacial water resources
- Advisor: Brent Minchew
- Postdoctoral Associate
- 2014–2018: University of Michigan
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Areas of focus: Numerical modelling of glacier dynamics, sea level change
- Advisor: Jeremy Bassis
- Course instructor, “Knowing Climate Change”
- Course consultant, Office for Community-Engaged Academic Learning
- Supervisor: Denise Galarza Sepulveda
- Graduate Research Assistant
- 2013-2014: AIESEC UK
- National Vice President for Organizational Development
- 2010–2012: Queen’s University
- Mathematics Tutor, Dept. of Athletics
- Courses tutored: Differential & integral calculus, Calculus for the life sciences, Elementary linear algebra, Ordinary differential equations
- Mathematics Tutor, Dept. of Athletics
- 2011: University of Toronto
- Undergraduate Research Intern, Centre for Global Change Science
- Area of focus: Influence of surface hydrology on gravimetry estimates of polar ice loss
- Advisor: W. Richard Peltier
- Undergraduate Research Intern, Centre for Global Change Science
Specialized training and certifications
- Wilderness First Aid (SOLO certified through 2024)
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA USA certified through 2025)
- Polar safety:
- Crevasse rescue and glacier travel (Ice Journey Iceland, trained 2022)
- NSF OPP Polar Risk Management (workshop co-organizer, 2021)