Water as a History Book: Stories Hidden in Alaska’s Glaciers

Name: Water as a History Book: Stories Hidden in Alaska’s Glaciers
Start: 2026-01-28T19:30:00-08:00
End: 2026-01-28T20:30:00-08:00
Location: 320 Nova Albion Way, Innovation Hub, San Rafael, CA, United States, California 94903

Schedule

Wed Jan 28 2026 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

320 Nova Albion Way, Innovation Hub, San Rafael, CA, United States, California 94903 | San Rafael, CA

Marin Science Seminar presents another free science event for teens and community at Terra Linda High School in San Rafael:
(Please NOTE: Tickets and Registration are NOT required. The link is simply for more information on the event and locale.)
"Water as a History Book: Stories Hidden in Alaska’s Glaciers"
with Paloma Siegel (TLHS MSEL ’18) PhD candidate at U. of Colorado Boulder
https://marinscienceseminar.com/water-as-history-stories-hidden-in-alaskas-glaciers/
Description:
What does it take to study glaciers in the mountains of Alaska? What do we learn about the climate from glacial ice? Paloma will share her path towards becoming an ice core scientist and explore the lessons we can learn from water molecules. Her talk will connect water isotopes to past temperature and atmospheric circulation in Southeast Alaska and broadly focus on melt-impacted mountain glaciers.
Bio:
Paloma is a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder currently studying water isotope dynamics in a temperate alpine ice core drilled on the Juneau Icefield, in Alaska. She grew up in San Rafael and graduated from Terra Linda High School (and MSEL) in 2018. In 2023, she received her BA in Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Through her current work with Dr. Markle and the Stable Isotope Lab (SIL), she combines modeling with snow and ice data to examine temperature and climate variability trends across surface samples and deep ice core data.
Join us and learn!
(Image from alaskaguide.com "Flying over Glacier Point, looking at the Davidson Glacier near Haines, Alaska." https://alaska.guide/article/what-are-glaciers-and-why-do-they-matter)