Kai Hu(He/Him)
Postdoctoral Researcher Integrating ice sheet dynamics, glacial isostatic adjustment, Earth surface processes, and geodynamics to better understand Earth system evolution. Website |
Elena Savidge(she/her)
Trottier Space Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-2027) Antarctic ice–ocean interactions and the connections between ice dynamics, sea level science, and policy. |
Konstanze Haubner(She/Her)
SEAS postdoctoral fellow within ClimateNarratives at the University of Bergen (2023-2026) Assessing Greenland’s sea Level change Impact on Coastal Communities (emplyoing ice and sea level models) Website |
Sarah Silverman(she/her)
MSc Student, Trottier Space Institute (2024-present) Coupled climate-ice sheet modeling to study ice sheet formation on exoplanets |
research Group Alumni
Postdocs
Erica Lucas
(2022 - 2025) TSI and Wares Postdoctoral Fellow Influence of mantle heterogeneity on glacial isostatic adjustment in West Antarctica Current Position:
Maryam Yousefi
(2020 - 2023) Polenet-ANET postdoctoral fellow Research: The influence of the solid Earth on Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics |
Tomas Navarro
(2019 - 2025) Trottier Space Institute Researcher Research: Climate-glacier coupling on tidally locked exoplanets Current Position: Environment and Climate Change Canada doing climate modeling. website
Erik Chan
(2017 - 2019) Trottier Space Institute Post Doctoral Fellow Research: Investigating sea level and ice on Mars, sea level code development and 3-D planetary structure and deformation modeling with applications on Earth and other planetary bodies Website Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Postdam University in Germany |
Graduate Students
Anna-Mireilla Hayden
(2017 - 2019) M.Sc. Student Thesis title: Multi-century impacts of ice sheet retreat on sea level and ocean tides in Hudson Bay Current position: PhD student at Waterloo University |
Jeremy Roffman
(2021 - 2023) MSc Student Physics and Atmospheric Science major. Temporal variations in the pattern of sea level change following ice loss during the 21st century
Jeannette Wan Xiu Wen
(2020 - 2021) MSc Student Research: Viscoelastic Earth structure and deformation Current Position: Associate in the impact investing team at Temasek, with the goal to achieve both strong financial returns and a positive social and environmental impact.
Holly Han
(2015 - 2021) PhD Student Research: Ice-sheet evolution, glacial isostatic adjustment and solid Earth deformation Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at NASA JPL Previously: Postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Labs Website |
Recent Undergradate Researchers
Laura Reumont
(Summer 2024) Undergraduate Summer Researcher McGill SURA (Science Undergraduate Research Award) Future global sea level changes due to Antarctic ice loss
Eva Clancy
(Summer 2023) NSERC - USRA recipient Sea level changes associated with Greenland ice loss
Natasha Kelly
(2023) Honours Earth System Science Undergraduate student Constraining past and ongoing ice changes in Antarctica using cosmogenic exposure age data.
Isabelle Mcintyre
(2021 - 2022) Undergraduate Student Honours Earth System Science Major. Research: Climate Change in Saint Lawrence River Water Levels, Discharge and Tides Current Position: JD candidate at the University of Victoria |
Kripa Vyas
(Summer 2024) NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Future Global Sea Level Change due to Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting
Alexandra Rochon
(2023 - 2024) TSI Undergraduate Summer Research Intern Project: Coupled climate and ice sheet models for exoplanets
Christopher Barbarie
(Fall 2023) Undergraduate Researcher Data analysis for sea level changes using GNSS reflectometry
Natalie Hardin
2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Geophysics and Physics major Optimization of remote sensing techniques for water level measurement |
Undergraduate StudentsTomas Milla-Knoch (2019)
Earth System Science Major Research: Using Sediments to reconstruct paleo sea levels Linda Pan (2018) Honours Planetary Science Major Honours Thesis Project: Spatial variability and impacts of future sea level change Current position: PhD student at Harvard University Clovis Vinant-Tang (2018) Physics Major Physics Research Course Project: Application of neural networks to detect features in satellite images of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Post graduation: Data analytics developer in California, USA Katarina Kuhnert (2017 - 2018) Sustainability, Science and Society Major SURA Summer Research Project: Arctic sea level change and community response Current position: Working with Inuit youth in Kangirsuk, Nunavik on a program called Science of the Land. Previously worked with Students on Ice. Gabriel Tseng (2017 - 2018) Physics Major Physics Research Course Project: 3-D Sea level and earth deformation modeling Current position: Machine learning engineer at Okra Solar. Previously worked on using machine learning to predict drought at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting. Asia Murphy (2018) Physics Major Physics Research Course Project: Evaluation of multiple GNSS antennae for sea level monitoring Current Position: Attending Law School at Dalhousie University. Jake Casselman (2016 - 2017) Honours Geology Major Honours Thesis Project: Global and local sea level projections and coastal adaptation Post graduation: completed an M.Sc. in Earth and Environmental Science from Columbia University in New York, now a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at ETH Zurich |
Visiting ResearchersJannette Wan Xiu Wen (2018-2019)
Visiting Researcher Visiting form Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under CN Yang Scholarship Research: Influence of 3D Earth Structure on sea level change in Antarctica Current position: MSc student in Gomez group (see above) Morgane Flament (2018) Visiting Masters Researcher Visiting international student from the Polytechnic Institute UniLaSalle, France Research: Sensitivity Analysis of Sea Level Model Predictions to Ice History |
Gomez Group Spring 2019 research celebration, Skál!
Top Row (left to right): Natalya Gomez, Anna-Mireilla Hayden, Jeannette Wen, Dave Purmell, Holly Han, Tomas Milla-Koch
Bottom Row (left to right): Linda Pan, Asia Murphy
Top Row (left to right): Natalya Gomez, Anna-Mireilla Hayden, Jeannette Wen, Dave Purmell, Holly Han, Tomas Milla-Koch
Bottom Row (left to right): Linda Pan, Asia Murphy



















