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Professor, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
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Associate Professor, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
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Associate Director, Global Change and Sustainability Center
Professional Service
- Frontiers in Earth Science.
Associate Editor - Cryospheric Sciences Section.
10/01/2023 - present
- AGU.
Role: Session chair.
Proposed and chaired conference session.
05/2023 - 12/2023
- NSF.
Role: co-convener.
Sea Level Rise Workshop.
03/01/2023 - 06/28/2024
- NASA.
Organized and facilitated NASA science team meeting. Scholarly Service. 03/01/2022 - 09/09/2022.
01/03/2023 - 05/25/2023
- AGU.
Proposed and chaired conference session. Scholarly Service.
05/01/2022 - 12/16/2022
- American Geophysical Union.
Role: Member.
Cryosphere Section Fellows Committee.
03/07/2022 - present
- NASA.
Organized and facilitated NASA science team meeting.
03/01/2022 - 09/09/2022
- American Geophysical Union.
Role: Member.
Cryosphere Fellows Committee.
01/10/2022 - present
- AGU.
Proposed and chaired conference session.
07/2021 - 12/2021
- NSF.
Role: Organizing committee member and host.
Ice Core Early Career Workshop.
07/01/2021 - 01/08/2022
- NSF.
US Ice Core Working Group, Member.
08/01/2020 - present
- NASA.
HiMAT Science team lead.
07/01/2020 - present
- Frontiers of Earth Science.
Associate Editor for special issue.
07/16/2018 - 11/02/2020
- US-Pakistan USAID.
Visiting Scholar Program, Research Mentor.
01/2018 - 05/2019
- NASA.
HiMAT Science Team, Member.
08/2016 - 08/2019
- GLIMS.
International Advisory Board.
08/2014 - 08/2016
- NASA-CAS.
Glacier Melt Tool Working Groups 1 and 2, Member.
05/2014 - 05/2016
Internal Service
- Global Change and Sustainability Center Associate Director.
08/01/2023 - present.
University service.
- Director of Graduate Studies.
07/01/2023 - present.
Department service.
- Global Change and Sustainability Center Executive committee.
Member,
07/01/2021 - present.
College service.
- Graduate Scholarship Committee.
Member,
07/01/2018 - present.
College service.
- Director of Graduate Studies.
07/01/2018 - 07/01/2022.
Department service.
- GCSC Student Grant Review Committee.
Member,
09/25/2017 - 10/10/2017.
Other service.
- Undergraduate Honors Representative.
08/01/2017 - present.
University service.
- Department Research Committee.
Member,
08/01/2017 - 08/01/2018.
Department service.
- Department Colloquia Committee.
Member,
07/01/2017 - 07/01/2019.
Department service.
- GCSC Strategic Planning Committee.
member,
07/01/2017 - 03/05/2018.
Other service.
- Society, Water, and Climate Executive Committee.
Member,
04/01/2017 - 04/01/2018.
Department service.
- Graduate Certificate in Hydrology Coordinating Committee.
01/03/2017 - present.
Other service.
- Society, Water, and Climate Cluster: Social Science search committee.
member,
08/01/2016 - 04/01/2017.
Other service.
- Society, Water, Climate Cluster: Physical Science Search co-Chair.
08/01/2016 - 04/01/2017.
Other service.
- GCSC Seminar Committee.
04/18/2016 - 04/28/2017.
Other service.
- Graduate Certificate in Hydrology proposal committee.
03/30/2016 - 12/20/2016.
Other service.
- RPT Committee member.
07/01/2015 - present.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Project Advisor for teachers in the Masters of Science for Secondary Science Teachers.
05/2020 - present
- Climate change workshops for Utah Science Teachers Association.
12/13/2013 - present
- CITES Associates Workshops: Improving teacher education and schooling through BYU-Public school partnership.
08/2012 - 06/2013
- State Office of Education expert review committee member for the Utah Science Criterion Reference Tests.
04/2012 - 04/2017
Outreach
- RISE Speaker, Skylikne High School.
09/08/2023 - present
- Speaker, Meet a Scientist, Utah Science Teacher's Association .
02/17/2023 - present
- Workshop on Climate for professional development for Alpine and Provo School District teachers .
10/10/2022 - present
- Presentations for the Citizen's Climate Lobby.
10/22/2020 - 04/15/2021
- Keynote Speaker for Lakeridge Jr High Earth Day Celebrations.
04/2019 - 04/2019
- Keynote Speaker, Utah Science Teacher Association Awards Ceremony.
02/08/2019 - 02/08/2019
- Climate change science and impacts presentations and action planning discussions with religious groups and leadership.
06/01/2016 - present
- Science panelist for Salt Lake City Main Library Series: "Years of Living Dangerously".
01/07/2016 - 01/07/2016
- Keynote speaker at Model UN at Lakeridge Jr High.
12/15/2015 - 03/15/2017
- Media Interviews: NPR, BBC, CNN, Inside Climate NEws, PBS Nova, Australia NPR, Late-LAte EArly-EArly Show in London, BYU TV, The Appleseed, Antarctic Sun, AsianNewsNetwork, Our Amazing Planet, The Daily Universe, The Daily Herald, Salt Lake Tribune, Fox 13, Channel 2 News.
01/2011 - present
- Antarctica blog for elementary and preschool classes.
10/2010 - 01/2011
- Public school lectures/presentations (multiple per year).
07/2009 - present
Honors & Awards
- Superior Research Award.
CSBS, University of Utah,
03/2024
- G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphic Research.
American Association of Geographers,
02/25/2022
- Outstanding Utah Higher Education Science Teacher.
Utah Science Teachers Association,
10/03/2021
- Top Researcher Award, Celebrate U showcase of Extraordinary Faculty Achievements.
University of Utah,
03/2017
- CITES Fellow.
BYU-Public School Partnership,
04/2013
- Young Scholars Award.
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, BYU,
03/2012
- Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.
National Academy of Sciences,
06/2011
- Hamblin Faculty Research Award.
Geology Department, BYU,
04/2011
- Antarctic Service Medal.
USAF,
08/2010
- Ferrel Scholarship for outstanding graduate research.
University of Washington,
05/2005
- George Goodspeed Fellowship.
University of Washington,
08/2004
In the Media
- Expert opinion on published article highlights by other researchers (Lee et al., 2021) in the Wall Street Journal. 12/2021.
- Media coverage from a range of outlets for work on the Chamoli flood (Shugar et al., 2021, Science). 03/2021.
- Media coverage from a range of outlets for work on spy satellite observations of glacier change (Maurer et al., 2021, ScienceAdvances). 12/2019.
- Interview with Derek Muller for science podcast. 03/2019.
- NPR All Things Considered (local) interview. 07/2017.