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Kyeore (Holly) Han

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4800 Oak Grove Drive, M/S 300-323

Pasadena, CA 91109

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Earth Surface and Interior

NASA Postdoctoral Fellow

Biography

Dr. Holly Han is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow whose primary research interest lies in understanding interactions between ice sheet, solid Earth and sea level over a range of timescales. She explored the physical mechanism in the context of the Northern Hemispheric Ice Sheet evolution through the last glacial cycle during her Ph.D., and in the context of future Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution under different climate change scenarios during her postdoc at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At JPL, Holly will focus on understanding the ongoing solid Earth deformation in Greenland due to the past and current ice mass changes, a research topic that encompasses ice sheet and solid Earth dynamics from past to present and incorporating a variety of observation data and modeling tools. Other than doing science, Holly loves exploring cafes with good vibes and coffee, going to the gym, playing soccer, training taekwondo, writing, and exploring nature and the world in any possible form.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Canada, 2021
  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics, University of Toronto, Canada, 2015

Professional Experience

  • NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2024-
  • Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2024-
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2021-2023

Community Service

  • Early Career Researcher Volunteer through an NGO International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) at 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC; COP28; Dubai, UAE) 12/2023
  • Science workshop presenter, "Ice Sheet Dynamics" session, GEAR UP New Mexico Girls STEM Pathways conference (Albuquerque, NM, USA), 02/2023
  • Science workshop presenter, "Arctic Sea Ice" session, STEM Pathways for Girls Workshop for students in 5th-8th grades (Santa Fe, NM, USA), 11/2022

Research Interests

  • ice sheet-solid Earth-sea level interactions
  • paleoclimate
  • ice-sheet dynamics
  • sea-level change
  • glacial isostatic adjustment

Selected Awards

  • LANL postdoc SPOT Award, 2023
  • Academic All-Canadian, Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS; now re-named as U-Sport), 2016
  • Academic All-Star (2015-2016 and 2016-2017), Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ)
  • The Hymie and Roslyn Mida Student Award in Theoretical Physics, University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2015
  • Don Salt Scholarship, Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS), 2015

Selected Publications

  1. (In revision in Nature Comms.) Lowry, D., Han, H.K., Golledge, N., Gomez, N., Johnson, K., and McKay, R. Ocean cavity regime shift reversed West Antarctic grounding line retreat in the late Holocene. (2023), 16, 2203-2223.
  2. Roffman, J., Gomez, N., Yousefi, M., Han, H.K. ,and Nowicki, S. Spatial and temporal variability of twenty-first century sea-level changes. Geophysical Journal International, 235, 1, 342-352. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad170
  3. Wan, J.X.W. ,Gomez, N. ,Latychev, K .and Han, H.K. Resolving glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) in response to modern and future ice loss at marine grounding lines in West Antarctica. The Cryosphere (2022), 16, 2203-2223. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2203-202
  4. Han, H.K., Gomez, N., and Wan, J.X.W. Capturing the Interactions Between Ice Sheets, Sea Level and the Solid Earth on a Range of Timescales: A new" time window" algorithm. Geoscientific Model Development (2022), 15, 1355-1373, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1355-202
  5. Han, H.K., Gomez, N., Pollard,D., and DeConto, R.M. Modeling Northern Hemispheric ice sheet dynamics, sea level change and solid Earth deformation through the last glacial cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2021), 126, 4, e2020JF006040, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF006040
  6. Gomez, N., Weber, M., Clark, P.U., Mitrovica, J.X., and Han, H.K. Antarctic ice dynamics amplified by Northern Hemisphere sea-level forcing. Nature (2020), 587, 600-606, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2916-2
  7. Hayden, A., Wilmes, S., Gomez, N., Green, M., Pan, L., Han, H.K., and Golledge, N. Multi-century impacts of ice sheet retreat on sea level and ocean tides in Hudson Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans (2020), 125, e2019JC015104, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015104
  8. Pollard, D., Gomez, N., DeConto, R.M., and Han, H.K. Estimating modern elevations of Pliocene shorelines using a coupled ice sheet-earth-sea level model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2018), 123, 9, 2279-2291, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004745
  9. Han, H.K., and Gomez, N. The impact of water loading on postglacial decay times in Hudson Bay. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. (2018), 489, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.043