I am currently seeking graduate and undergraduate students to join my research group. 

Please get in touch at LJLarocc@asu.edu

Laura Larocca, PI. Laura is an Assistant Professor in the School of Ocean Futures and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University.  She received her PhD at Northwestern University and was a recipient of the NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her work focuses on understanding how the Arctic cryosphere evolves and interacts with other components of the global climate system under sustained warming. 

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Student mentorship 

Current 

Hunter Allen, NAU PhD student (co-advised with Darrell Kaufman, Nick Mckay, and Erik Schiefer). Hunter is a PhD student in Earth Science & Environmental Sustainability at Northern Arizona University. He is researching proglacial lakes in Alaska, using rockflour as a proxy for glacial change in the Holocene. 

Eli Allred, NAU MSc student (co-advised with Nick Mckay and Darrell Kaufman). Eli is and Environmental Science & Policy Masters Student (ES&P) in the School of Earth & Sustainability at Northern Arizona University. He is researching proglacial Summit Lake in Alaska.

Sydney Parkinson, ASU undergraduate research assistant. Sydney is an undergraduate student in Biological Sciences (Conservation Biology and Ecology) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. They are mapping recent glacier snowlines in Alaska using Sentinel-2 imagery and Google Earth Engine tools. 

Taylor Schultz,  NAU undergraduate research assistant. Taylor is an undergraduate student completing her Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science with an Emphasis in Climate at Northern Arizona University. Taylor is using glacial landforms identified in high-resolution satellite imagery and GIS softwares to map the extents of glaciers during the Little Ice Age across Alaska. 

Former

Mason Merillat (2024-2025; Undergraduate research assistant, Arizona State University)

Megan Phillips (2022-2023; Capstone research project, Northern Arizona University) 

Jeremy Brooks (2019-2022; Undergraduate research grant and senior thesis project, Northwestern University). Jeremy is now a PhD candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Regan Steigleder (2018-2019; Laboratory assistant, Northwestern University)

Christine Lee (2018; Laboratory assistant, Northwestern University)