Established in the 1950s, the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) takes college and postgraduate students across the Juneau Icefield over the course of eight weeks during the summer. Students learn mountaineering, science, and art, and the program culminates in presentations of their work in Atlin, Canada. Many graduates of this program have gone on to careers in glaciology and climate science as well as mountain guides, writers, and policy makers.
I serve on the program’s Academic Council and have been faculty on JIRP for five years (2018, 2019, 2023, 2025, 2026). In 2018 and 2019, I studied a transient firn aquifer using firn cores and an autonomous phase-sensitive radio echo sounder (ApRES). In 2023, I taught artist Hannah Perrine Mode and I taught a 4-part art-science workshop on UAV surveying, photogrammetry, printmaking, and sewing. In 2025, I led a student project on surface energy balance, using both meteorological and artistic methods. In 2026, I taught introduction to climate and earth systems, creative writing, and glaciology.
I serve on the program’s Academic Council and have been faculty on JIRP for five years (2018, 2019, 2023, 2025, 2026). In 2018 and 2019, I studied a transient firn aquifer using firn cores and an autonomous phase-sensitive radio echo sounder (ApRES). In 2023, I taught artist Hannah Perrine Mode and I taught a 4-part art-science workshop on UAV surveying, photogrammetry, printmaking, and sewing. In 2025, I led a student project on surface energy balance, using both meteorological and artistic methods. In 2026, I taught introduction to climate and earth systems, creative writing, and glaciology.