UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Mandala Pham is a geophysics (B.S.) and history (B.A.) student at The University of Texas at Austin. Originally an undergraduate research associate within the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences studying speleothems and tree rings to reconstruct paleoclimate conditions, Mandala found herself enamoured by the cryosphere following an REU with Woodwell Climate Research Center’s Polaris project where she got to see a glacier in person for the first time.
Her research interests surround the consequences of climate change on glacier dynamics and the effects of rising sea levels on coastal communities. Currently, she works with Dr. Ginny Catania at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics expanding a terminus-driven numerical model to determine and categorize terminus velocity driving factors over periods of seasonal variability on all of Greenland’s glaciers.
Mandala is also the founder of the Collaboration for Undoing Racism in Environmental Sciences (CURES) organization at UT. After finishing her Bachelor’s, she plans to pursue a doctorate degree in geophysics with a focus on glaciology.
INTERESTS
Glaciology, polar geophysics, glacial modeling, ice dynamics, climate, oceanography, environmental justice
SUPERVISOR
Ginny Catania
ACADEMICS
B.S., Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin
B.A., History, The University of Texas at Austin
CONTACTS AND LINKS
mandaphm@utexas.edu
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