The MAGIC team includes researchers, students, science communicators selected on the base of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) principles. The transdisciplinary team of PIs will be mentoring and enabling a core group of junior interdisciplinary scholars prepared to push forward the inclusive study of earth science, social impacts, and adaptation strategies related to earth system change. 

People

PI Team

  • Joerg Schaefer

    Lead PI, Lamont Professor, Columbia University

    Specialty: Glacier and climate change on different time-scales

  • Summer Rupper

    Co-PI, Professor, University of Utah

    Specialty: Glaciers, climate, mountain hydrology, remote sensing, numerical modeling

  • Jacqueline Austermann

    Co-PI, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

    Specialty: Sea level and glacial isostatic adjustment modeling

  • Simon Brewer

    Co-PI, Professor, University of Utah

    Specialty:

  • Jennifer Givens

    Co-PI, Associate Professor, Utah State University

    Specialty: Social science, sociology, risk and adaptation

Early Career

  • Husile Bai

    Postdoc, University of Utah

    Specialty:

  • Allie Balter-Kennedy

    Postdoc Fellow, Columbia University

    Specialty: Ice sheet stability, Subglacial erosion, Cosmogenic-nuclide chronology

  • Savanna Wolvin

    PhD Student, University of Utah

    Specialty: Statistical downscaling, machine learning, and mountain meteorology

  • Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed

    PhD Student, Utah State University

    Specialty: Climate change perception, social impacts of climate change and natural disasters, gender dimensions in coping and adaptation strategies, environmental dimensions of fertility and migration

  • Lauren Lewright

    PhD Student, Columbia University

    Specialty: Calculating changes in sea level caused by mountain glacier melt

  • Ekaterina Bashkova

    PhD Student, University of Utah

    Specialty: Glaciology, Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

  • Aditya (Adit) Venkataraman

    Graduate Student, University of Utah

    Specialty: Spatial Data Science, Machine Learning, Glaciology, Climate Change

  • Fabian Riquelme

  • Maria Jose Puentes Nazal

Storytelling Team

Collaborators

  • Court Strong

    Professor, University of Utah

    Specialty: Climate dynamics, atmosphere-cryosphere interactions. Computational methods to study and model the atmosphere at the sometimes fine spatial and temporal scales required for understanding changes in the cryosphere.

  • Amanda Bertana

  • Esteban Sagredo

    Associate Professor, Universidad Católica

    Specialty: Paleoclimatology, glacial geomorphology, quaternary geochronology, climate and glacial modeling

  • Fernando Briones

    Anthropologist, University of Colorado Boulder

    Specialty: Disaster risk reduction, social vulnerability, resilience and climate change adaptation