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Rachel Glade is an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on sediment transport dynamics, landscape evolution, and fluid mechanics. She holds a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and leads a lab conducting experiments on frozen hillslope mechanics and fluvial processes. Key projects include studying arctic soil patterns as fluid instabilities, sediment diffusion in rivers, and blocky hillslope evolution. Her work bridges granular physics with geomorphological modeling, using climate chambers and laminar flumes. Glade collaborates on landscape evolution models (e.g., terrainbento) and explores applications in planetary science, environmental engineering, and community education through digital tools like ArcGIS StoryMaps.
Research interests span geomorphology, granular physics, and interdisciplinary connections to fluid mechanics. Ongoing experiments include simulating permafrost thaw impacts and analyzing granular segregation in industrial and geophysical contexts. She has published in journals like PNAS, Earth-Science Reviews, and JGR Earth Surface, emphasizing quantitative methods for landscape process representation.
Labs and facilities include a walk-in climate chamber for frozen terrain studies and a specialized flume for sediment transport analysis. Glade's work addresses both Earth's surface processes and extraterrestrial landscapes, contributing to planetary science and climate adaptation strategies.
