Laboratory Research Technician Senior

Lee Corbett is a research scientist specializing in understanding the evolution of Earth's surface over time. Her research interests include exploring how glaciers shape the underlying landscape, how Arctic landscapes develop over millions of years, and how past climate variations have impacted the size of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

At UVM, Lee runs the Community Cosmogenic Facility, a laboratory open to the scientific community that focuses on teaching and training visitors from around the world to prepare samples for cosmogenic nuclide analysis. Through her role in the Community Cosmogenic Facility, Lee collaborates on a wide variety of projects all over the world and gets to work on everything from climate change to rivers to landslides to erosion. Lee is a proud native Vermonter and has done all of her education in Vermont.

Lee Corbett

Education

  • PhD, Natural Resources, University of Vermont, 2016
  • MS, Geology, University of Vermont, 2011
  • BA, Geology, Middlebury College, 2007

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