Principal Investigator
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Dr. Lauren Simkins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia. She graduated with a BS from Oklahoma State (2009), a PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara (2014), and was a post-doc at Rice University prior to arriving at the University of Virginia in 2018. Lauren uses the geologic record to inform contemporary glacial processes and marine-based ice sheet behavior. Lauren is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and is also of Cherokee, Chickasaw, and European (white) descent.
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Graduate Researchers
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Cesar Garcia is PhD student, LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Scholar, and Dean's Doctoral Fellowship Scholar. His project focuses on the causes of spatially variable seafloor radiocarbon ages on the Antarctic continental shelf. He holds a BS in Geology from Indiana University Northwest (2019) and has expertise in beach sediments and microplastics.
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Allison Lepp is a PhD student working on the Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research (THOR) project, part of the US-UK International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. She holds a MS degree in Earth and Environmental Science from Montclair State University (2018) and a BS degree in Geology with a concentration in Environmental Geology from Georgia State University (2014).
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Marion McKenzie is a PhD student studying the glacial and sea level history of the Puget Lowlands in Washington State using LiDAR, outcrops, coastal sediment cores, and geochronology. She has a BS from Gettysburg College (2019) and comes to UVA with experience working on subglacial bedforms and Arctic permafrost degradation.
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Santiago Munevar Garcia is a PhD student studying the sensitivity of ice streams to subglacial topography by integrating geological observations and numerical models. He has a BS in Geography and Environmental Sciences from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (2018) and has research experience with fluvial hydrology and modelling.
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Undergraduate Researchers
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Delaney Buskard is an Undergraduate Researcher characterizing meltwater plume deposits across the Antarctic continental shelf, and developing methodological methods of grain size and shape.
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Jake Slawson is an Undergraduate Researcher working on patterns of Cordilleran Ice Sheet behavior across heterogeneous solid earth rheology and topography.
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Medha Prakash is an Undergraduate Researcher exploring the characteristics of clasts within subglacial and ice-proximal sediments deposited by the southernmost Cordilleran Ice Sheet.
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Elizabeth Eareckson is an Undergraduate Researcher quantifying magnitudes of grounding line retreat from ice-marginal landforms across time and space.
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Alumni
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Mackenzie Carter investigated spatial differences in seafloor radiocarbon ages in the Antarctic Peninsula as an Undergraduate Researcher in 2019.
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Sarah Lang used trace elemental composition of glacial-marine sediment to track spatial variable sediment sources on the Antarctic continental shelf as an Undergraduate Researcher in the Spring 2020 semester.
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Catherine Leigh documented subglacial channel morphology and channel distribution across glaciated continental shelves as an Undergraduate Researcher in 2019.
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Sean Penaparanda mapped moraine morphology changes in the tri-state region of the US East Coast as an Undergraduate Researcher in Fall 2019.
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Alan Zhai worked on spatial variability in roughness of a paleo-ice sheet bed as an Undergraduate Researcher during the Spring 2019 semester.
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Hannah Leigh is worked on data preparation for bed roughness analysis on the deglaciated Antarctic continental shelf.
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