I am an Alaska-raised, Europe-educated, and now California-based glaciologist. I work in the Rignot Research Group at the University of California Irvine and specialize in SAR interferometry. I am currently working with data from the recently launched NASA-ISRO NISAR mission to produce continent-wide maps of ice sheet velocity in Antarctica.

I also work on debris-covered mountain glaciers, both in the field and with satellite data. My field program is based in the Eastern Alaska Range and I have expertise using both satellite and field-based thermal data for glaciology applications.

I’ve done some long distance trail racing (see resume below), but then took some time off from racing while bouncing around the globe as post doc and becoming shomer Shabbat. In the interim I’ve written articles about running (see below) and even wrote a short album about running (see music section), but this season I’m getting back to just running. I have a marathon and a few ultras on the 2026, 2027, 2028 schedule.

Before the running and the black hat and the science, there was music. In high school my friends were buying cars and I bought a piano. Most recently I wrote and filmed a straight playthrough of an album I wrote in New Jersey about running. It was on a beautiful Young Chang baby grand that I had to sell to move to California. When I buy a new piano I will write something new and start playing shows again. Maybe I’ll post it here and maybe you’ll come.