People

CLIM Lab Members

Faculty

Andrew M. Carleton, Ph.D.

 

Position:

  • Director, CLIM Lab
  • Professor of Geography
  • Affiliate Faculty, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI)
  • Affiliate Faculty, Polar Center

Research Interests:

  • climatology
  • paleo-climates
  • climate dynamics
  • climate impacts of aviation contrails
  • human impacts on climate
  • climate variability and change
  • land surface-climate interactions
  • polar climatology
  • polar lows
  • Southern Ocean and Antarctica

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/andrew-carleton

Email:

amc7@psu.edu

Luke D. Trusel, Ph.D.

Position:

  • Director, CryoLab
  • Assistant Professor of Geography

Research Interests:

  • climate variability and change
  • ice sheet surface mass balance
  • ice core paleoclimatology
  • remote sensing

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/luke-d-trusel

Email:

trusel@psu.edu

 

Helen Greatrex, Ph.D.

Position:

  • Assistant Professor in Geography and Statistics
  • Faculty fellow in the Institute for Computational Data Sciences
  • Faculty fellow in CLIMA

Research Interests:

  • rainfall analysis
  • remote sensing
  • rainfall and humanitarian response
  • adaptation policy
  • rainfall impacts on agriculture
  • rainfall influenced disease modelling
  • weather and climate perceptions

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/helen-greatrex

Dr. Shujie Wang

Position:

  • Assistant Professor in Geography
  • Associate in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
  • Associate in the Institute for Computational Data Sciences

Research Interests:

  • Remote sensing
  • Ice sheet dynamics and stability
  • Snow and ice albedo
  • Supraglacial microbiome
  • Machine learning

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/shujie-wang

Email:

skw5660@psu.edu

Graduate Students

Julie Sanchez 

 

Position:

  • Ph.D. student

Research Interests:

  • Arctic Amplification
  • climate change
  • synoptic climatology
  • Arctic Climate Change
  • Greenland Ice Sheet melt

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/julie-sanchez

Email:

jms1286@psu.edu

Mikael Hiestand

 

Position:

  • Ph.D. student

Research Interests:

  • ecosystem dynamics
  • surface energy fluxes
  • atmospheric convection
  • remote sensing

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/mikael-hiestand

Email:

mph21@psu.edu

Connor Chapman

 

Position:

  • Ph.D. student

Research Interests:

  • synoptic climatology
  • land surface-climate interactions
  • climate variability and change

Homepage:

https://www.geog.psu.edu/directory/connor-chapman

Email:

cjc358@psu.edu