Our Team
Dr. Joseph Shea
Associate Professor of Environmental Geomatics at the University of Northern British Columbia. MOSH Lab lead and principal investigator. Mountain glaciers, snowpacks, meteorology, and remote sensing. [CV]
Dr. Brian Menounos
Professor of Geography at UNBC, and Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change. Remote sensing of glacier change.
Dr. Walter Immerzeel
Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Himalayan hydrology, remote sensing, modelling.
Dr. Sara Darychuk
Recently graduated PhD. Satellite remote sensing of snowpacks and watershed snow storage reconstructions.
Dr. Valentina Radic
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC. Glacier energy and mass balance.
Vanessa Foord
Climatologist, Government of British Columbia. Mountain meteorology, climate change.
Dr. Stephen Dery
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Northern Hydrometeorology at UNBC. Alpine meteorology, climate change, snow.
Samiullah Sofizada
PhD student at UNBC. Research area: community adaptation to changing mountain snowpacks and geohazards in the Robson Valley.
Ahmad Gulbekov
MSc student at UNBC. Research area: InSAR landslide detection and geohazards in British Columbia.
Ruslan Rikamov
MSc student at UNBC. Research area: Glacier change in the Saukdara Basin, Eastern Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan
Ben Legree
MA student (UNBC). Research area: Food security, land use, and climate change in the Robson Valley.
Kaleb Martin
MSc student (UNBC, co-supervised by Dr. Jason Leach, CFS). Hydrological change attribution in northeastern BC.
Madison Seely
NSERC Undergraduate Research Associate (UNBC). Research area: annual recessional moraines, glacier geomorphology, and RPAS.
Former Students and Team Members
Sara Darychuk (PhD, 2021 - 2026)
Alison Bishop (MSc, 2022 - 2024)
Sergio Gallegos (MSc, 2019 - 2024)
Rulan Xiao (MSc, 2021 - 2023)
Mackenzie MacLean (BSc, 2022 - 2023)
Kevin Ostapowich (MSc, 2020 - 2022)
Dr. Anna Chesnokova (PDF, 2021-2022)
Dr. Kriti Mukherjee (PDF, 2020-2022)
Reece Milliner (BSc, 2020)
Alivia Cavallin (BSc, 2019)