Member Since 2018
Allison Chartrand
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland College Park
Professional Experience
University of Maryland College Park
Postdoctoral Research Associate
2023 - Present
University of Maryland College Park
Postdoctoral Research Associate
2023 - Present
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center
Graduate Student
2017 - 2023
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Education
Ohio State University Main Campus
Doctorate
2023
Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences
Masters
2019
Northwestern University
Bachelors
2015
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Voices for Science
Received April 2024
"Allison Chartrand is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Allison was awarded a PhD from the Ohio State University in August 2023,...
"Allison Chartrand is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Allison was awarded a PhD from the Ohio State University in August 2023, where her dissertation was focused on remote sensing of ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica. As a NASA FINESST-supported student at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Allison investigated the evolution of ice shelf structure and stability due to the presence of sub-ice shelf meltwater plumes called basal channels. At ESSIC and GSFC, she continues to investigate subglacial conditions, but has shifted her focus to inverse numerical modeling of the Greenland ice sheet to investigate the subglacial topography as part of the Greenland-scape team.
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Basal Channel Evolution on the Getz Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

Ice shelves regulate the ice‐ocean boundary by buttressing the flux of grounded ice into the ocean and are vulnerable to basal melt, which ca...

August 28, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Imaging Grounding Line Change using Repeat, High-resolution DEMs
ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ICE-SHELF PROCESSES III ORAL
cryosphere | 13 december 2022
Allison Chartrand, Thomas R. Chudley, Ian Howat
Ice discharge across the grounding lines of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is modulated by the conditions of ice shelves at the margins, including ice thickn...
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Examining the relationships between basal channels and ice shelf structural evolution with repeat, high-resolution elevation models and altimetry
UNDERSTANDING ICE-SHELF PROCESSES I ORAL
cryosphere | 17 december 2021
Allison Chartrand, Ian Howat
Ice shelves control the stability of ice sheets and regulate ice sheet contribution to sea level rise by buttressing ice flow. Most of Greenlands ice ...
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Constraining Ice Shelf Basal Channel Melt Rates and Evolution
UNDERSTANDING ICE SHELF PROCESSES III POSTERS
cryosphere | 09 december 2020
Allison Chartrand, Ian Howat
Meltwater channels that incise into the base of ice shelves remain among the most poorly understood features in the ice shelf/ocean system. Ice shelve...
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