Curriculum Vitae

A copy of my CV can be found here.

Positions

2021 -

  • Assistant Professor

  • Department of Geography, University of Oregon, USA

2019 - 2021

  • Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, USA

  • Advisor: Prof. Laurence Smith

2017 - 2019

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University, USA

  • Advisor: Prof. Laurence Smith

Education

2013 - 2017

  • PhD Geography

  • Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK

  • Thesis title: Processes of Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss using unmanned aerial systems

  • Advisors: Profs. Alun Hubbard and Neal Snooke

2012 - 2013

  • MPhil Polar Studies

  • Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Thesis title: Submarine geomorphology of the continental shelves of Southeast and Southwest Greenland from Olex data

  • Advisor: Prof. Julian Dowdeswell

2009 - 2012

  • BSc Geography

  • School of Geography, University of Nottingham, UK

  • Thesis title: Dynamics of large woody debris in mountain streams, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

  • Advisor: Prof. Colin Thorne

Funding

2021 - 2024

  • NASA, The Science of Terra, Aqua, and Suomi-NPP

  • Role of clouds on Greenland Ice Sheet surface melt (#80NSSC21K1973)

  • PI: Jonathan Ryan

  • Total award: $284,167

2020-2023

  • NASA, Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science

  • Observationally constrained simulations of the evolution of polar snow using a multi-sensor approach (#80NSSC20K1727)

  • PI: Brooke Medley, Co-I: Jan Lenaerts, Jonathan Ryan, Matthew Siegfried, Tyler Sutterly

  • UO portion: $34,984

2019 - 2022

  • NASA, Studies with ICESat-2

  • Towards global characterization of inland water reservoir use from space (#80NSSC20K0963).

  • PI: Jonathan Ryan, Co-I: Laurence C. Smith (Brown University)

  • Total award: $363,554

2018 - 2022

  • NSF, Office of Polar Programs - Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)

  • Co-production of shorefast ice knowledge in Uummannaq Bay, Greenland (NSF #1836473).

  • PI: Jonathan Ryan, Co-Is: Amanda Lynch and Laurence C. Smith (both Brown University)

  • Total award: $479,377