His research investigates melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets through the analysis of satellite observations, ice cores, and climate models. He is broadly interested in the impacts of climate change across Earth’s polar regions, and how changes at the poles are linked to the broader Earth system. Prior to joining the faculty at Rowan, Dr. Trusel was a postdoctoral scholar in Geology & Geophysics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and he received a PhD in Geography in 2014 from Clark University where he was a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow.