Alice self-describes as a research-adventurer, leveraging skills developed as a guide, teacher and expedition leader in the outdoor industry. She developed an intimate relationship and curiosity for rivers and glaciers by literally living and working on these beautiful resources.
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Her research is motivated by her concern for long term global water availability in the context of changing climate, intensifying land use and increasing populations. Alice's expertise lies at the intersection of mountain geography, cryospheric science (snow and ice), and hydrology.
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Alice is a post doctoral researcher with the CHARIS project (Contributions to High Asia Runoff from Ice and Snow) housed at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. As part of this project she works to clarify the proportional contributions of meltwater, groundwater and rain to downstream river flow in Central Asia's Hindu Kush, Pamir and Tien Shan mountain ranges. More here.
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She was also a founding member and lead hydrologist on The Maranon Project, a research and outreach oriented expedition to collect baseline environmental data and raise awareness about hydropower development on one of the last free flowing connections between the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon jungle. More here.
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Alice is an American Alpine Club Researcher as well as a graduate researcher at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science.
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This page is continually changing as new findings hit the press. Please check back often for updates!
above: Alice collects water samples from a sediment laden tributary of the Maranon River. The Maranon River drains the Peruvian Andes and is a central source to the Amazon.
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below: Fickle weather normally characterizes the Darran Mountains in New Zealand's Fiordland, but not this day as Alice packrafts her way down the Pyke River.
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