I am currently seeking graduate and undergraduate students to join my research group.
Please get in touch at LJLarocc@asu.edu
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Laura Larocca, PhD | Lab director & principal investigator
Laura is an Assistant Professor in the School of Ocean Futures and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. She is the director and principal investigator of the ASU Climate and Cryosphere (C&C) research group.
Laura received her PhD at Northwestern University and was a recipient of the NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her work focuses on understanding how the Arctic cryosphere evolves and interacts with other components of the global climate system under sustained warming.
Student mentorship:
Current students (ASU)
Travis Zalesky, ASU PhD student
Travis is studying the impacts of warming on snow and ice, with a focus on lake ice phenology and peripheral glacier change in Greenland.
Victoria Moix, ASU MSc student
Victoria is researching intra-seasonal snowline altitude change on Alaskan mountain glaciers.
Miguel Arteaga, ASU BS student
Miguel is manually classifying points in Landsat imagery to support machine-learning–based classification of glacier surfaces.
Current co-advised students
Lucas Carter, ASU PhD student (co-advised with SESE faculty)
Lucas is investigating techniques to collect and characterize communities of atmospheric-dwelling microorganisms.
Hunter Allen, NAU PhD candidate (co-advised with Darrell Kaufman, Nick McKay, and Erik Schiefer).
Hunter is researching proglacial lakes in Alaska, using rockflour as a proxy for glacial change in the Holocene.
Eli Allred, NAU MSc student (co-advised with Nick McKay and Darrell Kaufman).
Eli is investigating the deglacial and Holocene evolution of proglacial Summit Lake in Alaska.
Taylor Schultz, NAU undergraduate student (co-advised with Nick McKay).
Taylor is mapping the LIA extents of glaciers across Alaska.
Former students
Sydney Parkinson (2024-2025; Undergraduate research assistant, Arizona State University).
Mason Merillat (2024-2025; Undergraduate research assistant, Arizona State University).
Megan Phillips (2022-2023; Capstone research project, Northern Arizona University).
Jeremy Brooks (2019-2022; Undergraduate research grant and senior thesis project, Northwestern University). Jeremy is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Regan Steigleder (2018-2019; Laboratory assistant, Northwestern University)
Christine Lee (2018; Laboratory assistant, Northwestern University)
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