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Dr. Pelto has spent four decades monitoring the response of glaciers to climate change, including being in the field every summer since 1981. He is an Associate Editor for several journals focused on glaciers, water resources, and climate change. Since 1983, he has also served as the Director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project, which measures the mass balance of three reference glaciers for the World Glacier Monitoring Service. He is responsible for writing the chapter on “Alpine Glaciers” each year in the State of the Climate report for the Bulletin American Meteorological Society. Additionally, Dr. Pelto is a Member of the Science Advisory Board for NASA Earth Observatory.

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Dr. Panday is a broadly trained geographer with expertise in environmental modeling, hydro-climatology, remote sensing, and geospatial technologies. His research and intellectual interests focus on using a systems approach to determine linkages between climate variability, anthropogenic changes, and land–water interactions. His research also utilizes field-based observations, satellite remote sensing, geospatial data, and process-based modeling to understand terrestrial and hydrological processes across various spatial and temporal scales. Much of his work thus far has focused on the monitoring and modeling of various components of the hydrological cycle in some of the fastest-changing regions of the world such as the Himalayas and the Amazon. Dr. Panday is also currently working with local watershed organizations in the cities of Worcester and Webster to facilitate water quality monitoring activities.

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Dr. Thomson grew up enjoying the wonderful community of Williams Lake in the central interior of British Columbia before heading east to study in the Department of Earth Sciences at Western University as a Loran Scholar (’04). Here, she received her BSc and MSc degrees in Geophysics and Planetary Science, while also completing a one-year research internship in glacier mapping at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her PhD research at the University of Ottawa focused on the glaciers of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, where she now maintains the long-term (>50 year) glacier monitoring program. She has been fortunate to hold fellowships with the Western Canada Cryospheric Network, with the European Space Agency’s Earth Observation Team, and to work as a visiting scientist at the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) at the University of Zürich. She pursued postdoctoral studies in Glaciology at Simon Fraser University under the mentorship of Dr. Gwenn Flowers, where they investigated the impact of changing ice temperatures on ice motion and the long-term stability of Arctic glaciers. She was thrilled to join the Queen’s Geography and Planning community in 2018 and is looking forward to fostering new collaborations in the years to come.