About Me

Hello! My name is Danielle Grau. I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the University at Buffalo in the Ice Sheet and Sea Level Lab. I’m originally from Fort-Lauderdale, Florida, an area that will be highly impacted by sea-level rise and climate change.

My love of Physics and Mathematics in grade school led me to pursue a BS in Physics at Florida International University. After completing a summer REU in glaciology during my undergraduate studies, I decided to pursue graduate studies focused on how terrestrial glaciers affect the evolving climate and sea-level rise predictions.

My current research focuses on the relationship between glacial surface roughness and supraglacial melt lake formation, and the impact of supraglacial melt lakes on large-scale climate and glacial model predictions/porjections. During my graduate studies, I’ve used a variety of tools such as satellite observations, Monte-Carlo simulations, and HPC techniques.