Current members
Brittany Main
Postdoctoral Researcher (Grant Coordinator)
Brittany Main is a Postdoctoral Researcher affiliated with the
University of Waterloo and Yukon Research Centre, Yukon University.
Her research focuses on glacier dynamics in the Yukon, Alaska, and
northern British Columbia, with an emphasis on surge-type glaciers
and interactions between glaciers and proglacial lakes.
Raven Quilestino-Olario
PhD Researcher (Email Coordinator)
Raven is a PhD scholar of the Antarctic working group of the University of Cologne in Germany, working on Quaternary interrelationships between sea ice, ocean surface temperatures, and polar seabirds (Raven loves penguins!).
Harley R. McCourt
PhD Researcher (Treasurer)
Harley is a 3rd year PhD Researcher at Northumbria University who models the extent and zonation of permafrost at a global scale from 1960-Present in an effort to help predict future permafrost degradation.
Sharman Jones
PhD Researcher (Social Event Coordinator)
Sharman is a PhD researcher at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her research focuses on the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age in Southern Africa using data analysis at multiple scales. She collects and processes UAV and ground-based photogrammetry for macro-scale geomorphological mapping, as well as processing and analysing geological samples using thin sections and 3D micro CT methods.
Nathaniel Baurley
PhD Student
Nathaniel is a PhD Student at the University of Southampton, UK. He is currently investigating the changing dynamics of Fjallsjökull, a lake-terminating glacier in southeast Iceland, using high-resolution UAV imagery.
Tomos Morgan
PhD Researcher (IGS ECR Representative for the IGS British Branch)
Tomos Morgan is a PhD Researcher working on remote sensing the changes in lake-calving glacier area and dynamics through using Google Earth Engine. He is developing an Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) code that allows the automatic detection in glacial lake area and subsequent changes from satellite imagery Landsat 4-9 and Sentinel 2 in different glaciated regions in the world.
Tirthankar Ghosh
PhD Student (Social Media Coordinator)
Tirthankar is a PhD student at IITB-Monash joint PhD Program and is a part of the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, and the School of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Monash University, where his research focuses on how the glaciers in the Ladakh region would evolve with climate change using satellite datasets, climate data, and numerical modelling techniques and exciting field works around the high-altitude terrains in the Himalayas.
Javier Norambuena
Master Student (Web Coordinator)
Javier is a 1st year master student at the university of Magallanes in Chile, also working as a software engineer in Nodo project at the Chilean Antartic Institute.
Emily Adams
Prospective Master's Student (Social Media Coordinator)
Emily has completed her Bachelor's degree in Physical Geography at Lancaster University, and is currently applying to Master's programmes across the UK. Her research interests so far have included glacier frontal variation in Jostedalsbreen, Norway; glacial interactions with atmospheric indices; and glaciology in the polar regions.
Michael Shahin
Postdoctoral Researcher
Michael is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. His research uses remote sensing and numerical models to study iceberg calving, ice-ocean interactions, and icebergs
Peter Wray
PhD Candidate
Peter Wray is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo and collaborates with the University of Ottawa and Yukon University. His research focus is on helicopter-borne radioglaciology, where he collects and processes regional ice thickness data in the Yukon St. Elias Mountains. Peter’s research aims to determine the ability of dense helicopter-borne radar grids to reveal subglacial bed topography for large polythermal mountain glaciers.
Past members
- Adrien Wehrle
- Rebecca Schlegel
- Lauren Vargo
- Johannes Landmann
- Falk Oraschewski
- Clara Henry
