Research Overview
Our work seeks to quantify the response of glaciers, water resources, and hazards to climate change to inform adaptation and mitigation strategies at local, regional, and global scales. We use computational models informed by remote sensing and field measurements to produce actionable information for decision makers and international policy.
Our work thus advances our process-based understanding of how glaciers are responding to climate change to refine projections and quantifies the resulting impacts associated with changing water resources and natural hazards (e.g., sea-level rise and flooding). Modeled products are used to develop user-focused tools to support adaptation strategies. Additionally, we also leverage our expertise in fieldwork, modeling, and remote sensing and apply them to other challenging systems such as stormwater management in urban systems.
- Facilitating Dynamic Adaptive Pathways for Coastal Decision-Makers through Land Ice and Water Projections (National Academy of Sciences)
- Quantifying Contributions from Glaciers and Terrestrial Hydrology to Sea Level Change (NASA)
- Glacier Extremes: Quantifying the Impact of Wildfires and Heatwaves on Alaska's Glaciers (NSF)
- From Observations to Predictions: Constraining the Future Evolution of Alaska's Glaciers (NPS)
- Peaks to Slopes to Communities: Tropical Glacierized Volcanoes in Ecuador as Sentinels of Global Change (NSF)
- Impact of Future Hydrology on Urban Best Management Practices in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (EPA)
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Sciences and Assessments (MARISA) 2.0: Urban Flood Management in Pittsburgh, PA (NOAA)
- Peak Water in High Mountain Asia: Quantifying Future Cryosphere Change to Understand Downstream Human Impacts (NASA)