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Riley Culberg holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science with a focus on Geospatial Information Science from the United States Military Academy. He obtained both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Previously, he was a Hess Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. In July 2023, Riley joined the Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department as an Assistant Professor. His research interests primarily revolve around near-surface hydrology and the internal structure of ice sheets on icy planetary bodies, utilizing ice-penetrating radar. He is particularly focused on understanding the role that shallow water systems play in modulating sea-level contributions from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. His work adopts a quantitative hydrogeophysics approach, combining situ observations with electromagnetic models and geophysical inverse methods to characterize the physical properties and subsurface dynamics of englacial water systems through radar observations. Furthermore, he integrates geophysical observations and field measurements with surface remote sensing methods and numerical models to analyze the links between near-surface processes, climate, and ice sheet hydrology and mass balance. Additionally, he is interested in using terrestrial observations and analogs to study near-surface cryo-hydrologic processes on icy satellites like Europa.
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