Roger Creel is a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whose research seeks to understand Sea-level change and impacts on coastal permafrost. To learn more about his work, watch his ACORN Talk presentation from January 2023.
Homebase: Falmouth, MA
Affiliation: Department of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Research focus: Sea-level change in the past and future, and the interactions sea level has with ice sheets, coastlines, permafrost, and continental hydrography
Geographic focus: Alaska North Slope (permafrost) and global (sea level change)
Current challenge: Over the next century, what combined impact will sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and permafrost thaw subsidence have on Arctic coastlines? And how fast will subsea permafrost degrade under high vs. low emissions scenarios?
Recent paper: Creel et al. 2023 preprint. Glacial Isostatic Adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost. Nature Communications DOI:10.31223/X55Q2Z
Recommended reading: Guimond et al. 2023. Wind-modulated groundwater discharge along a microtidal Arctic coastline. Environmental Research Letters 18:094042 DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acf0d8/meta
Finding balance: Dancing, cooking, hiking, and working on low-impact, high-fun academic side projects
