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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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. 

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.