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FACULTY AND STAFF
Eric Steig
Professor. PHD, University of Washington, 1996. UW faculty since 2001. Climate and paleoclimate, glaciology, isotope geochemistry.
Andrew Schauer
Lab manager and technician extraordinaire. M.S. University of Denver. Current Research: Advanced techniques in isotope geochemistry, and helping the rest of us with just about everything. Some of Andy's publications can be found on the Δ*IsoLab web site.
Mira Berdahl
Staff Scientist. PhD, Atmospheric Science, Rutgers University. Postdoc, LANL. Current research: Quantifying uncertainties in Antarctic sea level rise using the Community Ice Sheet Model.
Noah Brown
Post-bacc lab assistant. B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, UW. Working on water-isotopologue measuremens in ice cores, among other things.
CURRENT POSTDOCS & GRADUATE STUDENTS
Sonja Wahl
Postdoctoral researcher. PhD, University of Bergen. Current research: water isotope exhange between snow surface and atmosphere.
Liam Kirkpatrick
Graduate Student. B.E. Engineering and B.A. Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College. Current research: Alpine and Antarctic ice cores. Co-advised with TJ Fudge.
Lindsey Davidge
Graduate Student. B.S. in Chemical Engineering and B.S. in Environmental Science, University of Rochester. Current research: Ice-core continuous-flow analysis techniques.
Olivia Truax
Postdoctoral researcher. PhD, University of Otago. Current research: Data assimulation methods with application to Greenland surface mass balance; Antarctic paleoceanography. Olivia has recenty been appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Canterbury, NZ, but continues to be closely involved with our work.
RECENT FOLKS
Gemma O'Connor
Graduate Student. Defended PHD in July 2023. B.S. Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech. NSF Graduate Fellowship. Current research: Paleoclimate data assimilation and Antarctic climate and ocean modeling. Now a postdoc in UW Oceanography, supported by the Washington Research Foundation. ⟹Website
Jessica Badgeley
Graduate Student. Successfully depended PHD in July, 2022. B.A. Geology, Colorado College. NSF Graduate Fellowship. Research: Data assimilation for pasleoclimate and past ice sheets. Currently a postdoc at Dartmouth College, supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation.
Andrew Pauling
Graduate Student. PHD defesnse scheduled for December 2022. M.S. Physics, Univerity of Otago. Fulbright New Zealand Science and Innovation Award. UW Program on Climate Change Graduate Fellowship. Current research: Paleoclimate, climate sensitivity, climate modeling, sea ice. ⟹Website
Marina Dütsch
Postdoctoral researcher. PHD, ETH Zurich. Modeling stable water isotopes in polar regions with the Community Atmosphere Model. Now at the University of Vienna.
FORMER FOLKS
Haley Lowes-Bicay, B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, UW. Worked with us on COLDEX. Now at Scripps.
Vigash Ravi, B.S. Earth and Space Sciences, UW. Working on vairous things including isotopes of pangolins (!). Now working in industry.
Brad Markle, PHD 2017. Now at University of Colorado. ⟹Website
Meredith Hastings, Postdoc. Now at Brown University.
Summer Rupper, ESS PHD. Now at University of Utah.
Joel Pedro, Postdoc. Now at University of Tasmania.
Ailie Gallant, Postdoc, now at Monash University.
Qinghua Ding, Postdoc, now at University of California Santa Barbara.
Spruce Schoenemann, ESS PHD, now at University of Montana Western.
Lora Koenig, ESS PHD, now at University of Colorado.
Peter Neff, ESS MS. Now at University of Minnesota.
Julia Jarvis, ESS PH. Now living the good life outside academia.
Shelley Kunasek, ESS PHD. Now at The Seattle Academy.
Emma KahleESS PHD, 2020. Now pursuing Organic farming and regenerative agriculture.
Joe Flaherty, ESS MS. Now at Boeing.
Mai Winstrup , Postdoc, now at Danish Technical Univeristy.
Kathryn Matthews, EES (U. Penn) MS. Now at Oceana.
Marcel Küttel, Postdoc. Now at Swiss RE.
David Schneider, ESS PHD. Now at NCAR. ⟹Website
Chris Yarnes, IsoLab manager, now at UC Davis.