Bio
Charlotte Bate works with Christine McCarthy in the Rock and Ice Mechanics Lab at LDEO. She is broadly interested in earth material deformation and its controls, e.g. the rheology and frictional properties of ice. 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. Most recently, 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. Charlotte likes to be active, spend time with other people, and to think and learn about art history, languages, music, history and policy.