Education
B.A. Geosciences/Business, Franklin and Marshall College (2020)
- Thesis: Properties and mechanisms of transport of colluvial sediment in relict lobate landforms on hillslopes south of the Last Glacial Maximum ice margin, Pennsylvania, and possible associations with Late Pleistocene permafrost
Research Group
Jerolmack Group
Research Interests
Rheology of ice-debris mixtures and permafrost thaw
Using robotics to measure intrusion/shear forces in granular media
Mechanical controls on soil strength
Courses Taught
EESC2600 - Stratigraphy
Selected Publications
Ruck, J. G., Wilson, C. G., Shipley, T., Koditschek, D., Qian, F., & Jerolmack, D. (2024). Downslope weakening of soil revealed by a rapid robotic rheometer. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106468. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106468
Affiliations
Pennsylvania Council of Professional Geologists
Geoscience Founders Society
American Geophysical Union