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Our team

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Alia Lesnek, PhD

Assistant Professor

Lab Director

Beatrice Capone

PhD Student

Deglaciation of Southeast Alaska

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Jody Creel

PhD Student

Ice streams in the Gulf of Alaska

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Amado Cordova

MA Student

Controls on glacial striation morphology

I am recruiting undergraduate and graduate students to join the Glaciers and Climate Lab. I am looking for students who are motivated, resourceful, and have excellent written and oral communication skills in English. MA thesis students are fully based at Queens College; Ph.D. students split their time between Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

If you have experience with, or are interested in learning more about terrestrial records of glaciation, glacial processes, cosmogenic nuclides, or Quaternary surficial geology, please get in touch with me via email.

See our group research page to learn more about what we are working on.

We're hiring!

Lab alumni

Graduate students

  • Rania Taib (MA Geology, 2025), now Staff Geologist at Roux

  • Devina Kalika (MA Geology, 2025)

Undergraduate students

  • Shane Narine (BS Geology, 2026)

  • Mariia Ihnatiuk (BS Geology, 2025), now pursuing Master's degree, University of Maryland

  • Kimberly Lutchman (BS Environmental Science, 2024), now Laboratory Analyst Technician at KAM Consultants

  • Adrian Sterling (BS Environmental Science, 2024), now Environmental Scientist at TRC Companies

© 2026 by Alia Lesnek

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