Charlotte Bate

Charlotte Bate works with Christine McCarthy in the Rock and Ice Mechanics Lab at LDEO. She investigates fault mechanics and glaciology via ice deformation experiments. More specifically, she studies frictional mechanisms and the effect of temperate ice on the basal dynamics of ice streams. Charlotte graduated with a joint major in physics and geophysics from McGill University and earned an MSc in structural geology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before starting at Columbia, she worked as instrumentation specialist in the Rock Mechanics Lab at UW–Madison. She also worked in the Rock and Soil Mechanics Lab at Penn State and the Experimental Glaciology Lab at Iowa State.