Joan M. Ramage Assistant Professor Remote Sensing of Glaciers, Snow and Ice The Cryosphere Contact Information Earth & Environmental Sciences 31 Williams Hall (#406) Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015   Tel. 610.758.6410 Dept. Office. 610.758.3660 Fax. 610.758.3677 Email ramage@lehigh.edu

Education	Courses
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2001 M.S. The Pennsylvania State University, 1995 B.A. Carleton College, 1993	EES090 • Lands of the Midnight Sun (college seminar) EES317 • Remote Sensing of Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments  EES 491 • Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing EES 109 • Geographic Analysis of our Changing World (Intro to GIS)

Research Interests

I am interested in using satellite observations to understand questions in geomorphology, geoarchaeology, glacial records, land use and land use change, and environmental science. Most of my work has used microwave observations to study snow and glacier melt in Alaska, USA and the Yukon Territory, Canada. I am also working on glacial and paleoenvironmental questions in the Peruvian Andes.

My specific interests include:

• Satellite remote sensing of ice and snow
• Glacier change and relation to 20th - 21st century climate
• Last Glacial Maximum equilibrium lines in the Andes
• Geoarchaeology
• Volcanic hazards and deposits - in particular, Minoan eruption of Thera, Greece
• Glacial lakes: deposits and hazards
• Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of the Loess Hills, Nebraska

Current Research Projects and Opportunities for Students

• AMSR - E Derived Snow Melt Timing in the Yukon River Basin (with Dr. R.A. McKenney, Pacific Lutheran University) • YUKON PROJECT SITE
• Glacier and ELA reconstruction in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Ancash, Peru (with Dr. D.T. Rodbell, Union College, and others) • PERU PROJECT SITE
• Hyperspectral mapping of invasive species, effects of bison grazing and remnant native prairies in the Loess Hills, Nebraska and Iowa (With Dr. M.A. Vinton, Creighton University) • PRAIRIE PROJECT SITE

EES Dept. at Lehigh

Lehigh Earth Observatory (LEO)

Environmental Initiative (EI)

 

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