keywords
- glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, remote sensing
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Scambos, Theodore A Sr Research Associate
Positions
- Sr Research Associate, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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conference proceeding
- Ice on earth: Change is in the air. ACS National Meeting Book of Abstracts. 2011
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Validation of AVHRR and MODIS ice surface temperature products using in situ radiometers.
Annals of Glaciology.
345-+.
2005
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Satellite monitoring of blue-ice extent near Byrd Glacier, Antarctica.
Annals of Glaciology.
223-230.
2003
- Cryospheric applications of MISR data. 1219-1221. 2001
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An image-enhanced DEM of the Greenland ice sheet.
Annals of Glaciology.
291-298.
2001
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Ice dolines on Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Annals of Glaciology.
283-290.
2001
- New surface features of the Antarctic ice sheet from radar and visible-NIR mapping. 2576-2579. 2000
- Detailed topography of Roosevelt Island and Siple Dome, West Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 61-67. 1997
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DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCED ICE FLOW AT THE SOUTHERN MARGIN OF ICE STREAM-D, ANTARCTICA.
Annals of Glaciology.
313-318.
1993
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journal article
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Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.
The Cryosphere.
397-417.
2022
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Two decades of dynamic change and progressive destabilization on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf.
The Cryosphere.
5187-5203.
2021
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More than Skin Deep: Sea Surface Temperature as a Means of Inferring Atlantic Water Variability on the Southeast Greenland Continental Shelf Near Helheim Glacier.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
2021
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Spectral characterization, radiative forcing and pigment content of coastal Antarctic snow algae: approaches to spectrally discriminate red and green communities and their impact on snowmelt.
The Cryosphere.
133-148.
2021
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Consequences of the 2019 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Episode on Albedo.
Remote Sensing.
2021
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Hydrologic Properties of a Highly Permeable Firn Aquifer in the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2020
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Please consider the effects of storm and tide-driven ocean slope on calving.
2020
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Another useful ice velocity mapping tool using images
2020
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Brief communication: Mapping Greenland's perennial firn aquifers using enhanced-resolution L-band brightness temperature image time series.
The Cryosphere.
2809-2817.
2020
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Ending a Sea of Confusion: Insights and Opportunities in Sea-Level Change Communication.
Environment: science and policy for sustainable development.
4-15.
2020
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Warming reaches the South Pole.
Nature Climate Change.
710-711.
2020
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Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018.
Nature.
233-+.
2020
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Troughs developed in ice-stream shear margins precondition ice shelves for ocean-driven breakup.
Science Advances.
2019
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Current status of Landsat program, science, and applications.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
127-147.
2019
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Benefits of the free and open Landsat data policy.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
382-385.
2019
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Extracting recent short-term glacier velocity evolution over southern Alaska and the Yukon from a large collection of Landsat data.
The Cryosphere.
795-814.
2019
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The Expanding Footprint of Rapid Arctic Change.
Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management.
212-218.
2019
- STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S310. 2018
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Ultralow Surface Temperatures in East Antarctica From Satellite Thermal Infrared Mapping: The Coldest Places on Earth.
Geophysical Research Letters.
6124-6133.
2018
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Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell.
Nature.
383-+.
2018
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Quantifying vulnerability of Antarctic ice shelves to hydrofracture using microwave scattering properties.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
297-306.
2018
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Continent-wide estimates of Antarctic strain rates from Landsat 8-derived velocity grids.
Journal of Glaciology.
321-332.
2018
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Increased West Antarctic and unchanged East Antarctic ice discharge over the last 7 years.
The Cryosphere.
521-547.
2018
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Validating the use of metre-scale multi-spectral satellite image data for identifying tropical forest tree species.
International Journal of Remote Sensing.
3723-3752.
2018
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The changing extent of the glaciers along the western Ross Sea, Antarctica.
Geology (Boulder).
927-930.
2017
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State of the Climate in 2016.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
S1-S277.
2017
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Structural provinces of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Annals of Glaciology.
88-98.
2017
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Active subglacial lakes and channelized water flow beneath the Kamb Ice Stream.
The Cryosphere.
2971-2980.
2016
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Review of Rankl et al.
2016
- State of the Climate in 2015. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. S1-S275. 2016
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Review of Miles et al., 'Simultaneous disintegration of outlet glaciers in Porpoise Bay....'
2016
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Impacts of warm water on Antarctic ice shelf stability through basal channel formation.
Nature Geoscience.
290-+.
2016
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Flow variability and ongoing margin shifts on Bindschadler and MacAyeal Ice Streams, West Antarctica.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
283-293.
2016
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A decade of progress in observing and modelling Antarctic subglacial water systems.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences.
2016
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A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland.
Journal of Glaciology.
62-71.
2016
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Estimating supraglacial lake depth in West Greenland using Landsat 8 and comparison with other multispectral methods.
The Cryosphere.
15-27.
2016
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The modelled surface mass balance of the Antarctic Peninsula at 5.5km horizontal resolution.
The Cryosphere.
271-285.
2016
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Extreme wind-ice interaction over Recovery Ice Stream, East Antarctica.
Geophysical Research Letters.
8064-8071.
2015
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STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2014.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
S1-S267.
2015
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Configuration of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet at LGM based on a new synthesis of seabed imagery.
The Cryosphere.
613-629.
2015
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Estimating supraglacial lake depth in western Greenland using Landsat 8 and comparison with other multispectral methods
2015
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Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
32-41.
2014
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STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2013.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
S1-S257.
2014
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Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
154-172.
2014
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A decade ofWest Antarctic subglacial lake interactions from combined ICESat and CryoSat-2altimetry.
Geophysical Research Letters.
891-898.
2014
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Detailed ice loss pattern in the northern Antarctic Peninsula: widespread decline driven by ice front retreats.
The Cryosphere.
2135-2145.
2014
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Mapping blue-ice areas in Antarctica using ETM plus and MODIS data.
Annals of Glaciology.
129-137.
2014
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On the formation of blue ice on Byrd Glacier, Antarctica.
Journal of Glaciology.
41-50.
2014
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Recent changes in the flow of the Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
54-62.
2013
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State of the Climate in 2012.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
S1-S240.
2013
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Influence of persistent wind scour on the surface mass balance of Antarctica.
Nature Geoscience.
367-371.
2013
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A camera and rnultisensor automated station design for polar physical and biological systems monitoring: AMIGOS.
Journal of Glaciology.
303-314.
2013
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Kinetic fractionation of gases by deep air convection in polar firn.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
11141-11155.
2013
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Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing.
The Cryosphere.
515-535.
2013
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A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance.
Science.
1183-1189.
2012
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Ice velocity mapping of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica by matching surface undulations measured by ICESat laser altimetry.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
251-258.
2012
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Mass loss of Larsen B tributary glaciers (Antarctic Peninsula) unabated since 2002.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2012
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STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2011 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 93, No. 7, July 2012.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
S1-S263.
2012
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Borehole temperatures reveal details of 20th century warming at Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula.
The Cryosphere.
675-686.
2012
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Extent of low-accumulation 'wind glaze' areas on the East Antarctic plateau: implications for continental ice mass balance.
Journal of Glaciology.
633-647.
2012
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Variability in the mass flux of the Ross ice streams, West Antarctica, over the last millennium.
Journal of Glaciology.
741-752.
2012
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Recent surface temperature trends in the interior of East Antarctica from borehole firn temperature measurements and geophysical inverse methods.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2011
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2001-2009 elevation and mass losses in the Larsen A and B embayments, Antarctic Peninsula.
Journal of Glaciology.
737-754.
2011
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From ice-shelf tributary to tidewater glacier: continued rapid recession, acceleration and thinning of Rohss Glacier following the 1995 collapse of the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.
Journal of Glaciology.
397-406.
2011
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The triggering of subglacial lake drainage during rapid glacier drawdown: Crane Glacier, Antarctic Peninsula.
Annals of Glaciology.
74-82.
2011
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Ice sheet change detection by satellite image differencing.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
1353-1362.
2010
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Deep air convection in the firn at a zero-accumulation site, central Antarctica.
Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
359-367.
2010
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Twentieth-century Changes in the Thickness and Extent of Arapaho Glacier, Front Range, Colorado.
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
198-209.
2010
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Mapping the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using ICESat laser altimetry.
Annals of Glaciology.
71-79.
2010
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Mapping the grounding zone of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica using InSAR, MODIS and ICESat.
Antarctic Science.
515-532.
2009
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Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.
Journal of Glaciology.
400-410.
2009
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Rates of southeast Greenland ice volume loss from combined ICESat and ASTER observations.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2008
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Patterns of glacier response to disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.
Global and Planetary Change.
1-8.
2008
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West Antarctic Peninsula sea ice in 2005: Extreme ice compaction and ice edge retreat due to strong anomaly with respect to climate.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
2008
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A structural glaciological analysis of the 2002 Larsen B ice-shelf collapse.
Journal of Glaciology.
3-16.
2008
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Synchronous retreat and acceleration of southeast Greenland outlet glaciers 2000-06: ice dynamics and coupling to climate.
Journal of Glaciology.
646-660.
2008
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MODIS-based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) data sets: Continent-wide surface morphology and snow grain size.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
242-257.
2007
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Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2007
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Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers.
Science.
1559-1561.
2007
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Sequential stagnation of Kamb Ice Stream, West AntarcticaL.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2006
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Evidence for floatation or near floatation in the mouth of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, prior to stagnation.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.
2006
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Topography of streaklines on an antarctic ice shelf from photoclinometry applied to a single advanced land imager (ALI) image.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
736-742.
2005
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Surface morphology and internal layer stratigraphy in the downstream end of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica.
Journal of Glaciology.
423-431.
2005
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Glacier acceleration and thinning after ice shelf collapse in the Larsen B embayment, Antarctica.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2004
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A record minimum arctic sea ice extent and area in 2002.
Geophysical Research Letters.
2003
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Ground-based and satellite-derived measurements of surface albedo on the North slope of Alaska.
Journal of Hydrometeorology.
77-91.
2003
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Catastrophic ice-shelf break-up by an ice-shelf-fragment-capsize mechanism.
Journal of Glaciology.
22-36.
2003
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Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice stream.
Nature.
465-467.
2002
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Surface roughness characterizations of sea ice and ice sheets: Case studies with MISR data.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
1605-1615.
2002
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Ice-stream-related patterns of ice flow in the interior of northeast Greenland.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
34035-34045.
2001
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Snow megadune fields on the East Antarctic Plateau: extreme atmosphere-ice interaction.
Geophysical Research Letters.
3719-3722.
2000
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A millennium of variable ice flow recorded by the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
Journal of Glaciology.
652-664.
2000
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Changes in the margin of Ice Stream C, Antarctica.
Journal of Glaciology.
102-110.
2000
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The link between climate warming and break-up of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Journal of Glaciology.
516-530.
2000
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Improving AVHRR resolution through data cumulation for mapping polar ice sheets.
Remote Sensing of Environment: an interdisciplinary journal.
56-66.
1999
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Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations.
Nature.
58-62.
1998
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Improving digital elevation models over ice sheets using AVHRR-based photoclinometry.
Journal of Glaciology.
97-103.
1998
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Changes in the configuration of ice stream flow from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth.
5499-5504.
1996
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BASAL FRICTION OF ICE-STREAM-E, WEST ANTARCTICA.
Journal of Glaciology.
247-262.
1995
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Satellite-image-derived velocity field of an antarctic ice stream..
Science.
242-246.
1991
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AN OUTGASSING RELEASE FACTOR FOR NONRADIOGENIC VOLATILES ON MARS.
Journal of Geophysical Research.
14779-14787.
1990
- THE CENTER POND PLUTON - THE RESTITE OF THE STORY (PHASE-SEPARATION AND MELT EVOLUTION IN GRANITOID GENESIS) - REPLY. American Journal of Science: an international earth science journal. 284-287. 1988
- CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE REFINEMENT OF HIGH SANIDINE FROM THE UPPER MANTLE. American Mineralogist: an international journal of earth and planetary materials. 973-978. 1987
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THE CENTER POND PLUTON - THE RESTITE OF THE STORY (PHASE-SEPARATION AND MELT EVOLUTION IN GRANITOID GENESIS).
American Journal of Science: an international earth science journal.
241-280.
1986
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Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.
The Cryosphere.
397-417.
2022
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- Argentina Country
- Australia Country
- Austria Country
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- Chile Country
- France Country
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