Our Team
Dr. Joseph Shea
Associate Professor of Environmental Geomatics at the University of Northern British Columbia. MOSH Lab lead and principal investigator. Mountain glaciers, snowpacks, meteorology, and remote sensing.
Dr. Brian Menounos
Professor of Geography at UNBC, and Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change. Remote sensing of glacier change.
Dr. Walter Immerzeel
Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Himalayan hydrology, remote sensing, modelling.
Sara Darychuk
PhD candidate at UNBC. Research area: SAR applications for snowmelt monitoring and river forecasting.
Alison Bishop
MSc candidate at UNBC. Research area: LiDAR snow retrievals in forested coastal watersheds
Dr. Valentina Radic
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC. Glacier energy and mass balance.
Vanessa Foord
Climatologist, Government of British Columbia. Mountain meteorology, climate change.
Dr. Stephen Dery
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Northern Hydrometeorology at UNBC. Alpine meteorology, climate change, snow.
Sergio Gallegos
M.Sc. candidate at UNBC. Research topic: Winter snow depth characteristics and variability, Lajoie Basin, British Columbia.
Samiullah Sofizada
PhD student at UNBC. Research area: community adaptation to changing mountain snowpacks and geohazards in the Robson Valley
Mackenzie Ostberg
MA student (UNBC). Research area: Community adaptation and resilience to geohazards in the Robson Valley.
Former Students and Members
Rulan Xiao (MSc, 2023)
Mackenzie MacLean (BSc, 2023)
Kevin Ostapowich (MSc, 2022)
Dr. Anna Chesnokova (PDF, 2021-2022)
Dr. Kriti Mukherjee (PDF, 2020-2022)