Rachel Glade
@rachelglade.bsky.social
Geomorphysicist, musician, puppet enthusiast. Assistant Professor at The University of Rochester in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Mechanical Engineering; PI of the DRIP (Dirt, Rivers, Ice, Particles) Lab; Packard Fellow. https://rachelglade.com
Curious about the glacial geomorphology? Recent undergrad Regan Collins made this amazing ArcGIS Storymap about the formation of the Finger Lakes Region, complete with a map for a self-guided field trip to see some of the best examples of glacial geomorphology in the world! tinyurl.com/7w4asmwc
IT'S SNOW JOKE: THE HISTORY OF GLACIERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK
They Came, They Thawed, They Conquered
storymaps.arcgis.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Curious about the glacial geomorphology? Recent undergrad Regan Collins made this amazing ArcGIS Storymap about the formation of the Finger Lakes Region, complete with a map for a self-guided field trip to see some of the best examples of glacial geomorphology in the world! tinyurl.com/7w4asmwc
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New publication alert! Congratulations to Patel and @rachelglade.bsky.social for their paper "When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York ". Take a look here journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
New publication alert! Congratulations to Patel and @rachelglade.bsky.social for their paper "When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York ". Take a look here journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
We had a great experience publishing with @geomorphica.bsky.social! Using a simple glacial erosion model, recent undergrad Div Patel found that lithologic differences alone may be enough to explain size differences of the Finger Lakes in Western, NY. Check it out! journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York
| Geomorphica
journals.psu.edu
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We had a great experience publishing with @geomorphica.bsky.social! Using a simple glacial erosion model, recent undergrad Div Patel found that lithologic differences alone may be enough to explain size differences of the Finger Lakes in Western, NY. Check it out! journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
This book will change the course of geomorphology as a field- get a head start and see what's here!
eBook Preview
Statistical Physics of Rarefied Sediment Particle Motions and Transport: Applications to Hillslopes and Rivers
Posting this preview of material from my next (unfinished) book might be a mistake. But eh… what the hell.
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Statistical Physics of Rarefied Sediment Particle Motions and Transport: Applications to Hillslopes and Rivers
Posting this preview of material from my next (unfinished) book might be a mistake. But eh… what the hell.
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cdn.vanderbilt.edu/t2-my/my-prd...
cdn.vanderbilt.edu
September 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This book will change the course of geomorphology as a field- get a head start and see what's here!
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Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing:
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
KITP
www.kitp.ucsb.edu
August 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing:
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9!
Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
I'm incredibly proud of PhD student Nacere Mohamed Samassi for submitting her first ever paper, as well as the first experimental paper from the DRIP lab! Check out the preprint here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
July 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm incredibly proud of PhD student Nacere Mohamed Samassi for submitting her first ever paper, as well as the first experimental paper from the DRIP lab! Check out the preprint here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
A beautiful paper about a ubiquitous pattern- I'll never look at ripples the same way again!
Conner Lester and his colleagues offer a clear, thorough rendering of the statistical physics of impact ripples. Conner recently completed his PhD at Duke. His thesis should be available online soon.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Emergence of wind ripples controlled by mechanics of grain–bed impacts - Nature Geoscience
Numerical simulations suggest the wavelength of wind ripples is controlled by the mechanics of grain–bed impacts, not grain hop length, explaining why ripples on Mars and Earth are the same scale desp...
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
A beautiful paper about a ubiquitous pattern- I'll never look at ripples the same way again!
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I am happy to share a fresh out of the oven preprint where we are connecting some granular mechanics to the fabrication and performance of solid state batteries! Check it out!
Granular Creep and Its Role in Optimizing Solid Electrolyte Fabrication for Solid-State Batteries
The densification of solid electrolyte (SE) materials is crucial for improving the performance and stability of solid-state batteries. In this study, the role of granular creep in SE densification is ...
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April 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I am happy to share a fresh out of the oven preprint where we are connecting some granular mechanics to the fabrication and performance of solid state batteries! Check it out!
PhD student JohnPaul also visited DC last week as an AGU Local Science Partner to talk about arctic soil erosion to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Never has there been a more important time in history to talk to congress about science. Way to go JP!
April 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
PhD student JohnPaul also visited DC last week as an AGU Local Science Partner to talk about arctic soil erosion to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Never has there been a more important time in history to talk to congress about science. Way to go JP!
Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2
Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate modulated fluid-like instabilities
Lobate features found on high-latitude slopes on Mars resemble terrestrial cold-climate soil patterns known as solifluction lobes. Whether this provid…
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April 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2
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NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy.
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy.
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973.
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
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Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?
March 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?
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This is essential reading. It is an example of the required, new style of thinking about doing science.
"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
undark.org
March 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is essential reading. It is an example of the required, new style of thinking about doing science.
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Very useful explainer.
There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science.
Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.
Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.
No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding
How Endowments Actually Work
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Very useful explainer.
I'm enjoying this whole special issue about the doing of science: www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122/5
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I'm enjoying this whole special issue about the doing of science: www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122/5
A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!
January 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!
So many rocks! Postdoc Anshul Yadav and helpers have collected and drilled 1000+ rocks for RFID tracking in a local creek. We're measuring shape, size, density and volume of each rock before placing them in the field to see how grain shape affects fluvial sediment transport.
November 22, 2024 at 5:49 PM
So many rocks! Postdoc Anshul Yadav and helpers have collected and drilled 1000+ rocks for RFID tracking in a local creek. We're measuring shape, size, density and volume of each rock before placing them in the field to see how grain shape affects fluvial sediment transport.
Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Viewing Lobate Patterns on Mars and Earth as Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities
eartharxiv.org
November 15, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
The University of Rochester is a highly ranked research university, and the Rochester area's low cost of living and cultural, educational, and recreational assets frequently place it among the best places to live, work, and raise a family in the United States.
September 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
The University of Rochester is a highly ranked research university, and the Rochester area's low cost of living and cultural, educational, and recreational assets frequently place it among the best places to live, work, and raise a family in the United States.
We are especially interested in candidates who use these techniques to interrogate the (1) atmosphere, (2) cryosphere, (3) terrestrial carbon cycle, or (4) surface and interior properties associated with Earth and other planets
September 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
We are especially interested in candidates who use these techniques to interrogate the (1) atmosphere, (2) cryosphere, (3) terrestrial carbon cycle, or (4) surface and interior properties associated with Earth and other planets
We seek applicants whose research lies in the general field of remote sensing, specifically those who apply novel and emerging techniques and/or develop new technologies using ground-based, airborne or satellite platforms to investigate Earth and planetary systems.
September 30, 2024 at 8:27 PM
We seek applicants whose research lies in the general field of remote sensing, specifically those who apply novel and emerging techniques and/or develop new technologies using ground-based, airborne or satellite platforms to investigate Earth and planetary systems.