Summer Fieldwork It was a busy summer of fieldwork all over Alaska for the COOL Lab! Camryn and Elizabeth led deployments of pressure transducers in 30+ lakes across Alaska, including in the Fairbanks area, at Toolik Field Station just north … Read More
It’s been a busy few months in the COOL Lab! PI Sarah Cooley was on maternity leave in Fall 2025 but fortunately lab activities continued in her absence. The first COOL Lab PhD defense! First, a huge congratulations to Dr. … Read More
PublicationsPI Sarah Cooley led an international collaborative effort to compare multiple published datasets of satellite-derived global reservoir storage variability. This research was recently published in Environmental Research Letters. Overall, this work found generally good agreement between datasets, but worse agreement … Read More
It is has been an eventful spring semester for the COOL Lab! PublicationsPhD candidate Eric Levenson published his research on permafrost controls on lake distribution in Geophysical Research Letters. By presenting and analyzing a brand-new dataset of >800,000 lakes across … Read More
The COOL Lab is headed to AGU in Washington, DC this December, and several group members will be presenting their research. We are currently hiring a postdoctoral scholar and recruiting PhD student(s), and we encourage prospective applicants to reach out … Read More
In September 2024, I traveled to Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada for a community consultation visit as part of a new interdisciplinary research project titled ‘From the Floe Edge: Visualizing Local Sea Ice Change in Kinngait, Nunavut‘, funded by the British Academy. … Read More
First, the big update: As of July 1, 2024, the Cryo-hydrO Observation Leaders (COOL) Lab has officially arrived at Duke University! Prior to this we were in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon for three years, and … Read More
