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Glacial Meltwater
Glacial Meltwater
My Master's thesis questions how we relate to melting glacial landscapes in a period of accelerated climate change. Specifically, I study glaciers and their meltwater in the North Cascades through three embodied methodologies:
My Master's thesis questions how we relate to melting glacial landscapes in a period of accelerated climate change. Specifically, I study glaciers and their meltwater in the North Cascades through three embodied methodologies:
Kinesthetic: Following the Deming glacier on Koma Kulshan (Mt. Baker) from source to sea. Understanding the political ecology and urban impacts of glacial melt.
Scientific Field Work: In 2025, I joined the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project as a field assistant to study glacier mass balance.
Creative expression: I am producing a poetry and photography collection that parallels global warming's impact on glaciers through literary structure and experimental film.
Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)
Restoring Indigenous Socio-Environmental Systems (RISES)
I am a Graduate Research Assistant working with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation on their digital archive project in collaboration with the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. The larger RISES project is a transdisciplinary study of land use, ethnobotany, species health, and climate in the Bear River Basin. To find out more about the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Nation’s restoration of Wuda Ogwa and the history of the Bear River Massacre, visit their web page.
Environmental Health in the Oquirrhs
Environmental Health in the Oquirrhs
Check out our ArcGIS storymap for more resources on the Oquirrhs.
The Oquirrhs are a 30-mile-long mountain range that silhouettes Salt Lake City’s westward horizon, rendered opaque to the millions of Valley residents not only by the thick smog that occasionally settles in the basin, but also by the privatization, power struggles, and toxicity of the range’s environment. The world’s largest open-pit copper mine spirals downward into the base of the Oquirrh Mountains, whose peaks soar up above ten thousand feet. Largely privately owned, the Oquirrhs are physically and culturally situated at a distinct junction between development and disposability. Through community interviews, political analysis, and field site visits, a research team and I study the environmental health and land access of the mountain range.
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