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Dr. Leigh Stearns is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences. Her research focuses on understanding how glaciers and climate interact over a variety of timescales and quantifying the impacts of these changes. Dr. Stearns earned her PhD at the University of Maine, her M.S. at The Ohio State University, and her B.A. at Carleton College. She has authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles and has been awarded 26 competitive grants from NASA, NOAA, NSF, DoD, and the Heising-Simons Foundation. She has been a Faculty Fellow at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) since 2022. Prior to arriving at UPenn, she was a faculty member in the Dept. of Geology at the University of Kansas.