Joshua Himmelstein

Graduate Student

Rodriguez Lab

Education

B.S. Geology, College of William and Mary, 2018

Research Interests

Landscape change in the Anthropocene Remote Sensing Scientific communication and education

Research and Activities

My research interests lie in coastal sediments – their origins and fates. Marshes act as metronomes of sea-level rise, recording changes in inundation within their soils. By tracking the pace of North Carolina’s rapidly shifting wetlands through time and space, I aim to better explain feedbacks between topography and sedimentation. Which areas of our coast are naturally resilient to rising tides – and how can these areas inform preservation efforts?

GitHub

Selected Publications

“Onset of runaway fragmentation of salt marshes“