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KAITLIN M KEEGAN
+1 440-412-6966
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, June 2014
Doctorate of Materials Science and Engineering
John C. Woodhouse Environmental Engineering Prize
University of Cincinnati, June 2009
Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering
EXPERIENCE
Visiting Scientist, September 2016 – December 2016
Department of Earth Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Postdoctoral Researcher, June 2014 – June 2016
Center for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
PUBLICATIONS
K. Keegan, M. Albert, J. McConnell, I. Baker, “Climate change and forest fires synergistically drive widespread melt of the
Greenland Ice Sheet,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 111:7964-7967, 2014.
K.M. Keegan, M.R. Albert, and I. Baker, “The impact of ice layers on gas transport through firn at the North Greenland Eemian
Ice Drilling (NEEM) site, Greenland,” The Cryosphere, 8:1801-1806, 2014.
NEEM Community Members, “Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core,” Nature 493:489-494, 2013.
S. V. Nghiem, D. K. Hall, T. L. Mote, M. Tedesco, M. R. Albert, K. Keegan, C. A. Shuman, N. E. DiGirolamo, G. Neumann,
“The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 39, L20502, doi:10.1029/2012GL053611, 2012.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, S. Gregory, “Timing of CO2 and temperature rises during abrupt climate transitions,” (in prep).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
K. Keegan, M. Albert, J. McConnell, I. Baker, “Climate change and forest fires synergistically drive widespread melt of the
Greenland Ice Sheet,” Oral presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2014.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Cruel summer: forest fires, climate, and the enigmatic melting of the Greenland ice sheet,” Oral
presentation, Physics & Astronomy Lecture, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, September 2013.
PRESENTATIONS
K. Keegan, D. Dahl-Jensen, M. Montagnat, I. Weikusat, “Deformation of NEEM, Greenland basal folded ice,” Poster
Presentation, International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences 2nd Open Science Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, March 2016.
K. Keegan, D. Dahl-Jensen, M. Montagnat, I. Weikusat, “Deformation studies of NEEM, Greenland basal folded ice,” Oral
presentation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2015.
K. Keegan, D. Dahl-Jensen, M. Montagnat, I. Weikusat, S. Kipfstuhl, “Deformation of Eemian and glacial ice at NEEM,
Greenland,” PICO presentation, European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 2015.
K. Keegan, I. Baker, M. Albert, “The Effect of Impurities on Firn Layering at NEEM, Greenland,” Poster presentation,
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2013.
K. Keegan, S. Gregory, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Firn Microstructure Near Pore Close-off at NEEM and WAIS-Divide,” Poster
presentation, WAIS-Divide Science Meeting, La Jolla, CA, September 2013.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Firn Microstructure Near Pore Close-off,” Oral presentation, PIRE-ICEICS workshop, La
Jolla, CA September 2013.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Relationship Between NEEM Firn Permeability and Diffusivity,” Poster presentation,
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 2012.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, J. McConnell, I. Baker, “NEEM Firn Ice Layers,” Poster presentation, International Partnerships in Ice
Core Sciences Open Science Conference, Giens, France, October 2012.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “NEEM Firn Physical Properties,” Oral presentation, Partnerships in International Research
and Education-International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science Workshop, Giens, France, September 2012.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Progress on NEEM Firn Structure Studies,” Oral Presentation, Center for Ice and Climate,
May 2012.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, J. McConnell, “Analysis of Ice Layers in the NEEM Firn Column,” Poster presentation,
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA December 2011.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, J. McConnell, “NEEM Firn Ice Layers,” Poster presentation, NEEM Steering Committee
Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2011.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, J. McConnell, “Ice layers in the NEEM firn core,” Poster presentation, WAIS-Divide Science
Meeting, La Jolla, CA September 2011.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Outline of Studies of NEEM Firn Structure,” Oral presentation, Partnerships in International
Research and Education-International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science Workshop, La Jolla, CA September
2011.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Properties of Near-Surface Firn at NEEM,” Poster presentation, IGERT Workshop:
Understanding Rapid Environmental and Social Change in the Arctic, Juneau, AK March 2011.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Preliminary Physical Properties in Near-Surface Firn at NEEM,” Poster presentation, AGU
Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA December 2010.
K. Keegan, “Snow”, Oral Presentation, Katuaq Cultural Center, Nuuk, Greenland, August 2010.
K. Keegan, M. Albert, I. Baker, “Early NEEM Firn Progress Report,” Oral Presentation, Sunday Science Lecture, Summit
Station, Greenland July 2010.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
01/15 – 05/15
01/11 – 03/11
July 2010
Co-teacher, Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Copenhagen, DK
Course: Climate Change and Human Impacts
Teaching Assistant, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Course: Science of Materials
Guest Lecturer, Summit Station, Greenland
Lecture: Introduction to Snow and Ice Studies, IGERT Field Seminar 2010
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2013-2014
July 2012
Jan-Sept 2011
July 2010
July 2009
03/06-08/08
Mentoring
 Helped undergraduate students design and execute ice experiments
Instructor, Joint Science and Education Program
 Designed, taught curriculum to group of international high school students
Mentor for Dartmouth Women in Science Program
 Helped undergraduate student design, execute, and present an ice experiment
Project Leader
 Lead IGERT data collection campaign at Summit Station, Greenland
Field Assistant
 Assisted in firn core retrieval campaign, collected on site measurements
Co-op Student Researcher, Battelle Memorial Institute
Hanover, NH
Summit, Greenland
Hanover, NH
Summit, Greenland
NEEM, Greenland
Columbus, Ohio
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Contributed to many advanced materials applications research projects
OUTREACH
May 2013
1/13, 1/12, 1/11
April 2011
October 2010
May 2010
Panelist at Women in Science and Technology Forum, White Mountains College
Ice core seminar, Dickey Center’s Great Issues Seminar Series
Thayer School Open House ice core laboratory presentation
USA Science and Engineering Festival, Ice Core Science Booth
Women in Engineering presentation, St. Johnsbury Academy
Berlin, NH
Hanover, NH
Hanover, NH
Washington, D.C.
St. Johnsbury, VT
FELLOWSHIPS
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New Generation of Polar Researchers Symposium participant (2015)
Recipient of International Collaboration and Education in Ice Core Science NSF-PIRE Fellowship to visit the
Center for Ice and Climate in Copenhagen, Denmark (2011).
Recipient of Polar and Environmental Change NSF-IGERT Fellowship at Dartmouth College (2010).