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Tal Shutkin

Portrait of Tal taken during fieldwork in the Cordillera Huaytapallana, Peru (2024)

Tal Shutkin

Ph.D. Candidate
(he/him)

shutkin.3@osu.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Glacier Environmental Change

Education

  • BS in Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University (2019)
  • MA in Geogarphy, The Ohio State University (2022)

I am a physical geography PhD student fascinated by the interplay of climate, water, and landscape in social-environmental systems. My research focuses on the high tropical Andean environment, where communities situated in close proximity to glaciers rely on the mountains to provide water. I use field-based and glacier modeling approaches to understand how past climate change drove glacier advances which carved out the tropical Andean landscape and how modern climate change is driving ice loss and altering seasonal water availability.

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