Asmara Lehrmann

Asmara Lehrmann stands on a boat in front of a big ice shelf in Antarctica with ocean in between. Asmara wears a big red jacket and smiles at the camera.
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Asmara Lehrmann (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Houston, Texas, where she researches the paleoclimate of Thwaites Glacier and surrounding glaciers through the sedimentary record, supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. She holds a BS in Geology from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she completed an undergraduate thesis on the effects of sea level and climate change on hurricane intensity and severity in the Gulf of Mexico over the last 12,000 years. Being half Indonesian, Asmara's awareness of sea level rise and flooding impacts on her family inspired her to explore the major drivers of sea level change.