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Britney Schmidt
Associate Professor, Cornell University
Professional Experience
Cornell University
Associate Professor
2021 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology
2020 - Present
Georgia Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
2013 - Present
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Education
Doctorate
2010
Doctorate
2010
Honors & Awards
John F. Nye Lecture
Received December 2023
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Current Roles
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Cryosphere Nye and Early Career Award Committee
Publications
Ice‐Ocean Interactions on Ocean Worlds Influence Ice Shell Topography
The freezing point of water is negatively dependent on pressure; therefore in any ocean without external forcing it is warmest at the surface and g...
February 13, 2024
Variable Salinity and Hydrogen Production in Europa's Ocean
November 27, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Quantifying the Surface Deformation of Pingos on the Alaskan North Slope using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
OBSERVING AND MODELING OF EARTH SURFACE CRYOGENIC PROCESSES AND THE STATE OF PERMAFROST II POSTER
cryosphere | 15 december 2023
Venezia Follingstad, Roger J. Michaelides, Matthew...
Pingos are large ice mounds with cores formed of intrusive ice. These ice structures can form in regions of discontinuous permafrost, commonly as hydr...
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Multi-scale Insights into the Geochemical Evolution of Western Australian Transient Lakes – Analogs for Past Environments on Mars
MARTIAN AQUEOUS PROCESSES INFERRED FROM OBSERVATIONS, ANALOGUES, AND EXPERIMENTS I ORAL
planetary sciences | 15 december 2023
Taylor Plattner, Britney Schmidt, Alice Baldridge,...
The Western Australia Transient Lakes (WATL) are located in the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, which is host to hundreds of saline lakes...
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Thermochemolysis by TMAH Releases Organic Biosignature Compounds in the Mars Analog Gypsum Crusts of Western Australia
MARTIAN SULFATES STUDIED USING ORBITAL, GROUND, LABORATORY, AND EARTH DATA II POSTER
planetary sciences | 15 december 2023
Chad Pozarycki, Lydia Kivrak, Amy J. Williams, Tat...
Salt crusts are formed by evaporitic lake systems including the Western Australia Transient Lakes (WATL). These systems were the subject of a field ef...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Member
Cryosphere Nye and Early Career Award Committee
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