Andrew Mahoney
- Climate change
- Coastal dynamics
- Ice-ocean interaction
- Relationship between humans and sea ice
- Mahoney, A. R., A. J. Gough, P. J. Langhorne, N. J. Robinson, C. Stevens, M. J. M. Williams, and T. Haskell (2011), The seasonal appearance of ice shelf water in coastal Antarctica and its effect on sea ice growth, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(C11), C11032 10.1029/2011jc007060.
- Mahoney, A. R., J.R. Bockstoce, D.B. Botkin, H. Eicken and R.A. Nisbet, (2011), Sea ice distribution in the Bering and Chukchi seas: information from historical whaleships' logbooks and journals, Arctic,64(4), 465-477.
- Huntington, H. P., S. Gearheard, A. R. Mahoney, and A. K. Salomon (2011), Integrating Traditional and Scientific Knowledge Through Collaborative Natural Science Field Research, Arctic, 64(4), 437-445.
- Meyer, F. J., A. R. Mahoney, H. Eicken, C. L. Denny, H. C. Druckenmiller, and S. Hendricks (2011), Mapping arctic landfast ice extent using L-band synthetic aperture radar interferometry, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 115(12), 3029-3043
- Eicken, H., J. Jones, R. MV, C. Kambhamettu, F. Meyer, A. R. Mahoney, and M. L. Druckenmiller (2011), Environmental security in Arctic ice-covered seas: From strategy to tactics of hazard identification and emergency response, Marine Technology Society Journal, 45(3), 37-48.
- Mahoney, A. R., S. Gearheard, T. Oshima, and T. Qillaq (2009), Sea Ice Thickness Measurements from a Community-Based Observing Network, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90(3), p370-377.
- Holt, B., P. Kanagaratnam, S. P. Gogineni, V. C. Ramasami, A. R. Mahoney, and V. Lytle (2009), Sea ice thickness measurements by ultrawideband penetrating radar: First results, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 55(1), 33-46.
- Mahoney, A. R., R. G. Barry, V. Smolyanitsky, and F. Fetterer (2008), Observed sea ice extent in the Russian Arctic, 1933-2006, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 113, C11005, doi:10.1029/2008JC004830.
Martin Jeffries
Dr. Jeffries is not currently active in research. He is actively involved in publishing as the co-editor of the peer-reviewed, online Arctic Report Card published by NOAA, and the peer-reviewed Arctic chapter in the State of the Climate report published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Hajo Eicken
Dr. Eicken's research includes studies of the growth, evolution and properties of sea ice. Hajo is particularly interested in determining how microscopic and macroscopic properties affect larger-scale sea-ice processes and its role in the climate system. He also investigates different uses of sea ice by indigenous communities, the private sector and the public at large and aims to provide data and information that can help decision-makers adapt to a changing Arctic.
- Louis Agassiz Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2010 Terris and Katrina Moore Prize, Geophysical Institute, 2006
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, January-April 2006
- NASA Group Achievement Award (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Science Definition Team), 2005
- American Geophysical Union, Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing 2004
- Award for Best Presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science, Ventura, 2003
- Medal of Service, University of Helsinki, 2002
- Joint appointment as Professor of Geophysics at the Geophysical Institute, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, (March 2009 - Present)
- Professor of Geophysics / Sea-ice geophysicist at the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, (July 2007 - Present)
- Associate Professor of Geophysics / Sea-ice geophysicist at the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics and the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, (March 1998 - June 2007)
- Senior scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute (Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Physics, head of research group "Sea ice physics and remote sensing"), (October 1995 - February 1998)
- Employment as staff scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute (Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Physics), (August 1992 - September 1995)
- Employment as Postdoctoral scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute (Department of Geophysics and Glaciology), (February 1991 - July 1992)
- Employment as Ph. D. student at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany (Department of Geophysics and Glaciology), (May 1988 - January 1991)
- Visiting Scientist at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, N. H., (January - April 1988)
- Lovecraft, A. L., and H. Eicken (eds., 2011) North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK
- Eicken, H., J. Jones, Rohith MV, C. Kambhamettu, F. Meyer, A. Mahoney, M. L. Druckenmiller (2011) Environmental security in Arctic ice-covered seas: From strategy to tactics of hazard identification and emergency response. Marine Technol. Soc. J., 45(3), 37-48
- Krembs, C., H. Eicken, J. W. Deming (2011) Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic. PNAS, 108(9), 3653-3658
- Haas, C., Hendricks, S., Eicken, H., and Herber, A. (2010) Synoptic airborne thickness surveys reveal state of Arctic sea ice cover. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37: L09501, doi:09510.01029/02010GL042652.
- Pringle, D. J., J. E. Miner, H. Eicken, K. M. Golden (2009) Pore-space percolation in sea ice single crystals. J. Geophys. Res., 114, C12017, doi:10.1029/2008JC005145.
- Eicken, H., R. Gradinger, M. Salganek, K. Shirasawa, D. K. Perovich, M. Leppäranta (eds., 2009) Sea ice field research techniques. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, Alaska, 566pp. (Also author or co-author of four chapters in the book).
- Petrich, C. and H. Eicken (2009) Growth, structure and properties of sea ice, in Sea Ice, edited by D. N. Thomas and G. S. Dieckmann, Wiley-Blackwells, 23-77.
- Deming, J. W. and H. Eicken (2007) Life in ice. In: Baross, J. and W. Sullivan (eds.) Planets and life - The emerging science of astrobiology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 292-312.
The greatest story of man and permafrost
Engineer Elden Johnson, seen here giving a pipeline talk in 2008.
Photo by Ned Rozell.
In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer with a job working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Thirty-five years later, Johnson looked back at what he called “the greatest story ever told of man’s interaction with permafrost.”
Alaska Science Forum: The greatest story of man and permafrost
By Ned Rozell
In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer with a job working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Thirty-five years later, Johnson looked back at what he called “the greatest story ever told of man’s interaction with permafrost.”
Alaska Science Forum: Once again, news of the world from San Francisco
By Ned Rozell
SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.
Here are a few items from the first two days:
Once again, news of the world from San Francisco
Glaciologist Chris Larsen took this photo of surging, cracked-up Bering Glacier in 2010. The glacier may have stopped its several-year period of get-up-and-go.
Chris Larsen photo.
SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.
Here are a few items from the first two days:
Petrich to work at the Northern Research Institute in Narvik, Norway
As of Jan. 1, 2012, Chris Petrich will begin work at the Northern Research Institute (Norut) in Narvik, Norway. Petrich will be working on ice-related issues as part of a team of researchers. For a start, he will continue his work on oil-in-ice and other issues of relevance to Norway, including ice loads in hydropower dams.
