My co-authors’ and my 2008 paper on subglacial hydrology and basal motion, published in Nature Geoscience, has now received over 100 citations. In Bartholomaus et al. (2008), we showed how the Kennicott Glacier flows fastest when water storage within and … Continued
My final AGU talk as a graduate student has been awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award. Thanks to all of the judges and administrators for the time volunteered to run this program.In my talk, I described how seismic waves produced … Continued
The UAF Center for Global Change (CGC) has recently published a short profile about my work, while the Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR) reported on a new publication they supported.In 2010, I received a research grant from the CGC, … Continued
I successfully passed my defense on Oct. 17th, and had a wonderful celebration with many friends and family. I expect to receive my Ph.D. in several weeks, after completing revisions to my dissertation. Many thanks to all those who supported … Continued
I’ll be defending my Ph.D. dissertation in just two weeks–on Thursday, October 17th, at 8:30 am, in the Elvey Auditorium of the Geophysical Institute at UAF. My title is “Seismicity, seawater and seasonality: new insights into iceberg calving from Yahtse … Continued
My friend, Bob McNabb, has written a summary of the paper Chris Larsen, Shad O’Neel, and I just published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. You can read Bob’s review here. In his summary, Bob describes some of the more … Continued
The Yahtse Glacier Project’s latest study will be published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.In this study, Chris Larsen, Shad O’Neel and I show that melting below the sea surface can control the rate at which ice is … Continued
We’re mid-way through 2.5 weeks of work at three adjacent ocean-terminating outlets of the Greenland Ice Sheet and our project is off to a great start. I’m presently working with researchers from the Univ of Texas at Austin and the … Continued
Last weekend, I had the great pleasure of spending time on the Kennicott Glacier with students from the Wrangell Mountains Center‘s environmental studies program. While standing between streams of glacier meltwater, I lectured to our undergraduate students on the importance … Continued