Kniya Duncan

Hi! My name is Kniya Duncan and I am a first-year MS/PhD student at the University at Buffalo working with Dr. Kristin Poinar in the Glacier Modeling Lab. I am currently interested in studying and understanding icequakes in Eastern Greenland and if they can be caused by crevasse openings.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Geology at Binghamton University. During my time at Binghamton, I was a part of their Paleoclimate lab under the guidance of Dr. Molly Patterson studying Late Miocene to Pleistocene lithostratigraphic changes from IODP Site U1522 on the Ross Sea Continental Shelf. Throughout my undergraduate career I was also apart of two REU’s; At Tulane University where I analyzed coastal ice cores from Mt. Murphy in Antarctica, and at Columbia University LDEO where I traced a subglacial Precambrian geologic boundary in Greenland through gravity and magnetic anomalies. I have presented my work at WAIS Workshop, AGU, and GSA.