Graduate students
Mario Angarita
Ph.D. Geophysics, Soild Earth Geopysics
Email: mfangaritasr@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ronni Grapenthin
Committee member(s): David Fee, Carl Tape, Franz Meyer
Areas of research: SAR analysis
Stephen Austria
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: saaustria@alaska.edu
Advisor: Dmitry Nicolsky
Committee member(s): Kevin Bjella, Vladimir Romanovsky, Simon Zwieback
Areas of research: Permafrost
Joshua Barna
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: jbarna2@alaska.edu
Advisor: Sarah Fowell
Committee member(s): Nancy Bigelow, Daniel Mann, Matthew Wooller
Areas of research: Palynology, biogeography, climate change processes
Michael Barrera
M.S. Geoscience
Email: mlbarrera@alaska.edu
Advisor: Sean Regan
Areas of research: Igneous petrology, Magmatic and hydrothermal ore formation processes, Geochronology
Reyce Bogardus
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: rcbogardus@alaska.edu
Advisor: Chris Maio
Committee member(s): Daniel Mann, Andrea Hawkes, Jeffrey Donnelly
Areas of research: sedimentological reconstructions of intense storms on millennial time scales
Kyra Bornong
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: ksbornong@alaska.edu
Advisor: Louise Farquharson
Areas of research: Permafrost landslides
Bryan Bosserman
M.S. Geoscience
Email: bpbosserman@alaska.edu
Advisor: Mike Whalen
Committee member(s): Sarah Fowell, Paul McCarthy
Yitian Cheng
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: ycheng4@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ronni Grapenthin
Committee member(s): David Fee, Franz Meyer, Pavel Izbekov
Areas of research: Volcano Deformation Analysis
Seth Classen
M.S. Earth System Science, Geospatial Science
Email: sjclassen@alaska.edu
Advisor: Chris Maio
Julian Dann
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: jdann@alaska.edu
Advisor: Bob Bolton and Simon Zweiback
Committee member(s): Kristin Timm, Paul Leonard
Areas of research: Permafrost hydrology and remote sensing with a focus on aufeis on the Arctic Coastal Plain.
Sara Datson
M.S. Geoscience
Email: sdatson@alaska.edu
Advisor: Chris Maio
Committee member(s): Nancy Bigelow, Sarah Fowell
Gabrielle Davy
M.S. Geophysics
Email: gdavy@alaska.edu
Advisor: Michael West
Committee member(s): Ronni Grapenthin, John Lyons
Areas of research: Landslide seismic signals
Victor Devaux-Chupin
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: vdevauxchupin@alaska.edu
Advisor: Martin Truffer
Committee member(s): Carl Tape, Mark Fahnestock, Christopher Larsen
Areas of research: Remote sensing, Glaciology
David Doorenbos
M.S. Geoscience
Email: dddoorenbos@alaska.edu
Advisor: Patrick Druckenmiller and Sarah Fowell
Committee member(s): Paul McCarthy
Lindsey Dorn
M.S. Geophysics, Remote Sensing
Email: ldorn@alaska.edu
Advisor: Robert Herrick
Committee member(s): Franz Meyer, Catherine Neish
Areas of research: Planetary Remote Sensing
Emily Fedders
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: erfedders@alaska.edu
Advisor: Andy Mahoney
Committee member(s): Franz Meyer, Chris Polahenski, Jenny Hutchings, Jackie Richter-Menge
Areas of research: sea ice dynamics and kinematics
Emily Graham
Ph.D. Earth System Science, Geospatial Science
Email: edgraham@alaska.edu
Advisor: Franz Meyer and Simon Zwieback
Committee member(s): Ken Tape, Christine Waigl
Areas of research: Remote Sensing of Permafrost
Mariah Graham
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: mgraham17@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ronni Grapenthin
Committee member(s): Társilo Girona, Franz Meyer, Carl Tape
Emily Graves
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: egraves4@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ronni Grapenthin
Committee member(s): David Barnes, Franz Meyer, Carl Tape
Areas of research: Geodesy
Aakash Gupta
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: agupta7@alaska.edu
Advisor: Carl Tape
Committee member(s): Geoffrey Abers, Bryant Chow, Ryan Modrak, Michael West
Areas of research: Seismology, Anisotropy
David Harvey
M.S. Geoscience
Email: daharvey3@alaska.edu
Advisor: Jessica Larsen
Committee member(s): David Damby, Sean Regan
Areas of research: Volcanology
Khawaja Javed
M.S. Geoscience
Email: kjaved@alaska.edu
Advisor: Elisabeth Nadin
Committee member(s): Carl Schmitt, Martin Stuefer
Areas of research: Hyperspectral data analysis
Amy Jenson
Ph.D. Geophysics, Snow, Ice and Permafrost
Email: ajjenson@alaska.edu
Advisor: Martin Truffer
Committee member(s): Jason Amundson, Franz Meyer, Lizz Ultee
Areas of research: Glacial flow
Cristofer Jiminez
Ph.D. Geoscience
Advisor: Taryn Lopez
Sebin John
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: sjohn19@alaska.edu
Advisor: Michael West
Committee member(s): Ronni Grapenthin, Martin Stuefer, Carl Tape
Areas of research: Observational seismology
Kaytan Kelkar
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: kakelkar@alaska.edu
Advisor: Louise Farquharson and Simon Zwieback
Committee member(s): Maragret Darrow, Benjamin Gaglioti, Dmitry Nicolsky
Areas of research: Periglacial geomorphology
Kyungmin Kim
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: kkim39@alaska.edu
Advisor: Társilo Girona
Committee member(s): Kyle Anderson, Matt Haney, Carl Tape
Areas of research: Volcano Seismology and Modeling
Brooke Kubby
M.S. Geoscience
Email: bkubby@alaska.edu
Advisor: Franz Meyer
Committee member(s): David McAlpin, Christine Waigl
Areas of research: Remote Sensing
Cameron Kuhle
Ph.D. Earth System Science, Cryosphere
Email: crkuhle@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ben Jones and Eric Klein
Deidre LaBounty
M.S. Geology
Email: djlabounty@alaska.edu
Advisor: Mike Whalen
Committee member(s): Sarah Fowell, Rainer Newberry
Areas of research: Carbonate Depositional Environments
Alexandru Mihai Lapadat
M.S. Geophysics
Email: alapadat@alaska.edu
Advisor: Ronni Grapenthin
Committee member(s): Carl Tape, Christian Tiberius, Michael West
Areas of research: Earthquakes and early warning
Joseph "Zeb" Maharrey
M.S. Geology
Email: jzmaharrey@alaska.edu
Advisor: Jim Beget
Committee member(s): Pavel Izbekov, Jessica Larsen
Areas of research: Volcanic Seismology
Amanda McPherson
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: ammcpherson@alaska.edu
Advisor: Carl Tape
Committee member(s): Natalia Ruppert, Michael West
Areas of research: Alaska tectonics and seismic imaging
McKenzie Miller
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: mmiller42@alaska.edu
Advisor: Sean Regan
Committee member(s): Marisa Acosta, Florian Hofmann, Trevor Waldien
Areas of research: Structural geology, tectonics, metamorphic petrology, and geochronology
Sarah Noel
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: sknoel@alaska.edu
Advisor: Michael West
Committee member(s): Ronni Grapenthin, Natalia Ruppert, Carl Tape
Areas of research: Analzing seismic data
Ryan Oeste
Ph.D. Earth System Science, Geoscience
Email: raoeste@alaska.edu
Advisor: Sarah Fowell
Committee member(s): Nancy Bigelow, Beth Caissie, Matthew Wooller
Areas of research: Paleoclimate and paleoecology
Charles Parr
M.S. Geoscience
Email: cparr4@alaska.edu
Advisor: Matthew Sturm
Committee member(s): Matthew Balazs, Chris Larsen
Areas of research: Snow cover
Anika Pinzner
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: apinzner@alaska.edu
Advisor: Matthew Sturm
Committee member(s): Jeffrey Falke, Chris Maio, Melinda Webster
Areas of research: Snow Physics
Annegret Pohle
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: apohle@alaska.edu
Advisor: Andy Aschwanden
Committee member(s): Douglas Brinkerhoff, Carl Tape, Martin Truffer
Areas of research: Ice sheet modeling
Wisnu Priyanto
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: wspriyanto@alaska.edu
Advisor: Bernard Coakley
Committee member(s): Ronni Grapenthin, Chris Johnson, Elisabeth Nadin, Mike Whalen
Areas of research: Ocean tectonics
Claire Puleio
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: cepuleio@alaska.edu
Advisor: Jessica Larsen
Committee member(s): Claudia Cannatelli, Taryn Lopez, Erika Rader
Areas of research: Volcanic geochemistry
Austin Routt
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: aroutt@alaska.edu
Advisor: Kynan Hughson and Paul McCarthy
Committee member(s): Daniel Mann, Brandon Vogt
Aeon Russo
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: arusso3@alaska.edu
Advisor: Lee Ann Munk
Committee member(s): David Boutt, Jordan Jenckes, Sean Regan
Sergei Rybakov
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: srybakov@alaska.edu
Advisor: Dmitry Nicolsky and Simon Zwieback
Committee member(s): Baptiste Dafflon, Louise Farquharson, Vladimir Romanovsky
Areas of research: Permafrost
Eyal Saiet
M.S. Geoscience, Geology
Email: ejsaiet@alaska.edu
Advisor: Franz Meyer
Committee member(s): Catherine Cahill, Mark Fahnestock
Areas of research: Remote sensing and photogrammertry
Logan Scamfer
M.S. Earth System Science, Solid Earth Geophysics
Email: ltscamfer@alaska.edu
Advisor: David Fee
Committee member(s): Bryant Chow, Carl Tape
Areas of research: Seismoacoustics
Ozzy Schneider
M.S. Geoscience
Email: anschneider4@alaska.edu
Advisor: Jessica Larsen
Committee member(s): Marisa Acosta, Pavel Izbekov
Areas of research: Volcanology
Tate Rachow
M.S. Geophysics
Email: tfsenden@alaska.edu
Advisor: Dmitry Nicolsky
Committee member(s): Esther Babcock, Matthew Bray, Ronni Grapenthin, Beez hazen, Vladimir Romanovsky
Isabella Seppi
M.S. Earth System Science, Solid Earth Geophysics
Email: irseppi@alaska.edu
Advisor: Carl Tape
Committee member(s): David Fee, Natalia Ruppert, Michael West
Areas of research: Seismo-acoustics
Jill Shipman
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: jsshipman@alaska.edu
Advisor: Pavel Izbekov
Committee member(s): John Eichelberger, Jon Dehn, Jeff Freymueller, Jessica Larsen
Areas of research: Volcanology
Nealey Sims
Ph.D. Geophysics, Solid Earth Geophysics
Email: nesims@alaska.edu
Advisor: Carl Tape
Committee member(s): Elisabeth Nadin, Natalia Ruppert, Michael West
Areas of research: Seismology
Emilie Sinkler
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: esinkler@alaska.edu
Advisor: Erin Pettit and Martin Truffer
Committee member(s): Andy Aschwanden, Ed Bueler, Elisabeth Nadin
Areas of research: Glaicology
Celine Smith
M.S. Geoscience
Email: cnsmith13@alaska.edu
Advisor: Bernard Coakley and Louise Farquharson
Soumitra Sakhalkar
Ph.D. Geophysics
Email: ssakhalkar@alaska.edu
Advisor: Franz meyer and Simon Zwieback
Committee member(s): Margaret Darrow, Benjamin Jones
Areas of research: Remote Sensing, Permafrost
Kitrea Takata-Glushkoff
M.S. Geoscience
Email: pltakataglushkoff@alaska.edu
Advisor: Andy Mahoney
Committee member(s): Shauna Burnsilver, Tatiana Degai
Indie Talbot
M.S. Geoscience
Email: ihtalbot@alaska.edu
Advisor: Marisa Acosta and Florian Hofmann
Areas of research: geochemistry, geochronology, and economic geology
Darren Tan
Ph.D. Geophysics, Solid Earth Geophysics
Email: ptan@alaska.edu
Advisor: David Fee
Committee member(s): Társilo Girona, Jeremy Pesicek, Carl Tape
Christopher Tran
M.S. Geoscience
Email: cctran@alaska.edu
Advisor: Chris Maio
Committee member(s): Lauren Divine, Sonia Ibarra
Areas of research: Coastal erosion impacts and planning
Natalie Tyler
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: natyler@alaska.edu
Advisor: Franz Meyer and Katey Walter Anthony
Committee member(s): Melanie Engram, Guido Grosse, Santosh Panda
Valerie Wasser
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: vkwasser@alaska.edu
Advisor: Taryn Lopez
Committee member(s): Pavel Izbekov, Jessica Larsen, Matthew Loewen
Areas of research: volcanology
Logan Wieland
Ph.D. Geoscience
Email: lrwieland@alaska.edu
Advisor: Benjamin Jones and Eric Klien
Areas of research: Cryosphere geomorphology, hydrogeochemistry, and hydroclimatology
Michael Willis
M.S. Geoscience
Email: mdwillis@alaska.edu
Advisor: Matthew Balazs and Chris Maio
Areas of research: Topobathymetric mapping
Thomas "Colby" Wright
M.S. Geoscience, Geology
Email: tcwright2@alaska.edu
Advisor: Paul McCarthy
Committee member(s): Patrick Druckenmiller, Tony Fiorillo, Sarah Fowell
