Naomi Ochwat

Naomi is a PhD student working on Antarctic glacier dynamics. She is utilizing multiple remote sensing datasets (Landsat, SPOT, ICEsat-1 and 2, DEMs, and more) to evaluate the changes of tributary glaciers post-ice shelf collapse. Her main research focus is to help crack the mystery of Marine Ice Cliff Instability by analyzing hypothesized ice cliff failure events at Crane, Hektoria, Dinsmoor-Bombardier-Edgeworth, and Röhss glaciers in the Antarctic Peninsula. Her past research has involved studying the last Arctic-style ice shelf in Greenland (Hunt Fjord Ice Shelf) and discovering a firn aquifer and subsequent firn dynamics on Kaskawulsh Glacier, Yukon. After earning her MSc. at the University of Calgary, Naomi was in Svalbard working as a hiking guide and research assistant at UNIS. When she is not oogling over satellite imagery or in the field, she is found organizing Girls on Rock expeditions, a branch of the Inspiring Girls Expeditions, connecting underprivileged highschool girls to STEM and backcountry activities.