I am an Alaska-raised, Europe-educated, and now California-based glaciologist, writer, runner, and musician.

I specialize in debris-covered mountain glaciers and am now expanding into SAR interferometry. Specifically, I am using data from the recently launched NASA-ISRO NISAR mission to produce continent-wide maps of ice sheet velocity in Antarctica.

I’ve raced 5Ks on the track to 100-mile mountain ultras, but my passion is solo multi-day adventure running. I’ve blended my Alaskan alpine climbing roots with European-style mountain racing to strip overnight camping gear down to the absolute bare minimum. My loaded vest weights and runs about the same as carrying the mandatory UTMB gear, but instead of taking unused gear for a lap around the mountains, I use every piece to cover a lot of distance with complete freedom.

I like to write articles about these adventures and tie running together with wider aspects of life. For me, one of the more unusual themes is figuring out how to integrate the intensity of glacier research and endurance running with Shabbat-observant Orthodox Jewish life. A large work on this topic is in preparation. I am also writing an open-source, executable Torah commentary in Jupyter notebooks which can be found below, along with my weekly vort (requiring an advanced understanding of Hebrew, math, physics, and computer science).