Our work is collaborative and interdisciplinary. These are people who have contributed to the Quaternary Geology team at Dartmouth:
Former Postdocs
Max Cunningham (NASA Space Grant Postdoc) – Past glaciation in Costa Rica and tropical equilibrium line altitudes; now at the U.S. Department of Defense
Alice Doughty (Dartmouth Neukom Postdoc and NSF-Funded Postdoc) – Modeling of tropical glaciers, past glaciation in the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa; now at University of Maine
Carly Peltier (NSF-Funded Postdoc) – Reconstructing past glacial extents and equilibrium line altitudes across the tropics to understand the magnitude of past climate change; now a Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy
Former Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory Manager
Jennifer Howley – Managed the lab from 2009 to 2017; now at New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Service
Current Graduate Students
Caleb Okpala (MS, expected 2024) – Past glaciation in Costa Rica
Liesel Robbins (MS, expected 2024) – Past glaciation in Costa Rica
Former Graduate Students
Jordan Herbert (MS, 2022) – Past glaciation in Colombia and the influence of topography on tropical glacial extents
Nathan Anderson (MS, 2020) – “A new low-latitude, high-altitude 10Be production-rate calibration in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda”; now at Alaska Pacific University
Margaret Jackson (PhD, 2019) – “Glacial history of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda”; now at Trinity College Dublin
Lauren Farnsworth (MS, 2017) – “Late glacial and Holocene history of the Greenland Ice Sheet margin in Nunatarssuaq, Northwestern Greenland”; now at CRREL
Justin Stroup (PhD, 2015) – “Holocene fluctuations of Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru”; now at SUNY Oswego
Sam Beal (PhD, 2014) – “Determining anthropogenic and natural controls on the global mercury cycle using lake sediment and ice cores”, co-advised with Brian Jackson and Erich Osterberg; now at CRREL
Matt Bigl (MS, 2014) – “Late stage lowering and drainage of Glacial Lake Hitchcock in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire”; now at CRREL
Laura Levy (PhD, 2014) – “Late-glacial and Holocene fluctuations of local glaciers and teh Greenland Ice Sheet, eastern and western Greenland”; now at Humboldt State University
Margaret Baber (MS, 2013) – “Surface-exposure (10Be) dating of the Omurubaho moraines in the Rwenzori Mountains of Uganda”; now at Fullstack
Current Undergraduate Students
Evan Barrett ’24, Sophomore Research Scholar, Independent Research; Modeling the Laurentide Ice Sheet (co-advised with Mathieu Morlighem)
Alexandra Farnell ’24, E.E. Just Fellow, Sophomore Research Scholar, Independent Research; Mapping glacial geology in tropical mountains
Lauren Kayari ’25, Women in Science Program, Mapping glacial geology in tropical mountains
Sophie Lewis ’25, Undergraduate Research Assistantship, Hanover glacial geology
Grace Mendolia ’24, Undergraduate Research Assistantship; Cosmogenic nuclide dating
Former Undergraduate Students
Senior Honors Thesis Students
George Geier ’21, “The surficial geology of Mount Moosilauke, New Hampshire, and an investigation of slope-parallel ridges: A LiDAR-based approach”
Alex Derenchuk ’19, “Severe Holocene climate change in the Upper Valley: The 8.2 ka event, paleostorms, and drought”
Laura Hutchinson ’19, “Constraining the rate of recent glacier changes in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains”
Kate Salamido ’19, “Greenland Ice Sheet retreat, lowering, and seasonality during Termination 1 in the Scoresby Sund region, East Greenland”
Zach Plante ’18, “10Be dating of glacial moraines in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California”
Daniel Propp ’18, “Dating relict rock glaciers in the eastern Sierra Nevada, CA”
Loring Schaible ’17, “Historic atmospheric deposition of mercury from a former chlor-alkali facility: a lake sediment study”, co-advised with Devon Renock
David Cavagnaro ’17, “Cosmogenic 10Be exposure dating of a post-glacial landslide in the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda”
Margaret Ramsden ’15, “Holocene environmental conditions in the Upper Valley region based on lake sediments and accompanying climate-science community outreach with the Montshire Museum”
Amanda Duchesne ’13, “K/Ar dating on fine-grained glacio-marine sediments new Prydz Bay, Antarctica”, co-advised with Ed Meyer
Ellen Roy, Dartmouth ’13, “Developing a Holocene Temperature Record from Lake Sediments in Northwest Greenland”; co-advised with Yarrow Axford, Northwestern University
Hannah Baranes ’12, “Surface exposure dating of the Huancane III moraines in Peru: A record of Quelccaya Ice Cap’s maximum extent during the last glacial period”
Laura Reynolds ’11, “10,000 Years of Environmental Change in Hanover: pollen, macrofossil, and charcoal analyses from the Occom Pond sediment core”
Andrew Smith ’10, “Late-glacial to present day sediment record from Occom Pond, Hanover, NH”
Senior Project Students
Margaret Shufflebarger ’22, Senior Project
Grayce Gibbs ’22, Senior Project
Claire Arthur ’14, Senior Project, co-advised with Laura Levy
Other Undergraduate Research Projects
Ryan Boyle ’24; Undergraduate Research Assistantship
Samantha Loffman ’24, Independent Research
Sonia Eckstein ’23, Presidential Scholar
Samantha Newman ’22, Sophomore Research Scholar
Sydney Towle ’22, Women in Science Program
George Geier ’21, Presidential Scholar, Sophomore Research Scholar
Alex Derenchuk ’19, Presidential Scholar, Sophomore Research Scholar
Laura Hutchinson ’19, Presidential Scholar, Independent Research
Kate Salamido ’19, Presidential Scholar, Sophomore Research Scholar
Cara Piske ’18, Independent Research
Daniel Propp ’18, Presidential Scholar
Audrey Putnam ’18, Presidential Scholar, Sophomore Research Scholar
David Cavagnaro ’17, Independent Research
Sarah Hammer ’14, Women in Science Program, co-advised with Laura Levy
Ivy Ddamba ’13, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Hannah Baranes ’12, Independent Research
Laura Hempel ’12, Independent Research
Hanul Kim ’12, Presidential Scholar
Michael Swartz ’12, Northern Studies Internship
Florence Ling ’11, Presidential Scholar