Publications


Magruder, L. A., Farrell, S. L., Neuenschwander, A., Duncanson, L., Csatho, B., Kacimi, S., & Fricker, H. A. (2024). Monitoring Earth’s climate variables with satellite laser altimetry. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5(2), 120–136. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00508-8
Freer, B. I. D., Marsh, O. J., Hogg, A. E., Fricker, H. A., & Padman, L. (2023). Modes of Antarctic tidal grounding line migration revealed by Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) laser altimetry. The Cryosphere, 17(9), 4079–4101. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-4079-2023
Paolo, F. S., Gardner, A. S., Greene, C. A., Nilsson, J., Schodlok, M. P., Schlegel, N.-J., & Fricker, H. A. (2023). Widespread slowdown in thinning rates of West Antarctic ice shelves. The Cryosphere, 17(8), 3409–3433. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3409-2023
Mosbeux, C., Padman, L., Klein, E., Bromirski, P. D., & Fricker, H. A. (2023). Seasonal variability in Antarctic ice shelf velocities forced by sea surface height variations. The Cryosphere, 17(7), 2585–2606. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2585-2023
Siegfried, M. R., Venturelli, R. A., Patterson, M. O., Arnuk, W., Campbell, T. D., Gustafson, C. D., Michaud, A. B., Galton-Fenzi, B. K., Hausner, M. B., Holzschuh, S. N., Huber, B., Mankoff, K. D., Schroeder, D. M., Summers, P. T., Tyler, S., Carter, S. P., Fricker, H. A., Harwood, D. M., Leventer, A., … the SALSA Science Team. (2023). The life and death of a subglacial lake in West Antarctica. Geology, 51(5), 434–438. https://doi.org/10.1130/G50995.1
Davis, C. L., Venturelli, R. A., Michaud, A. B., Hawkings, J. R., Achberger, A. M., Vick-Majors, T. J., Rosenheim, B. E., Dore, J. E., Steigmeyer, A., Skidmore, M. L., Barker, J. D., Benning, L. G., Siegfried, M. R., Priscu, J. C., Christner, B. C., the SALSA Science Team, Barbante, C., Bowling, M., Burnett, J., … Zook, B. (2023). Biogeochemical and historical drivers of microbial community composition and structure in sediments from Mercer Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica. ISME Communications, 3(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00216-w
Venturelli, R. A., Boehman, B., Davis, C., Hawkings, J. R., Johnston, S. E., Gustafson, C. D., Michaud, A. B., Mosbeux, C., Siegfried, M. R., Vick‐Majors, T. J., Galy, V., Spencer, R. G. M., Warny, S., Christner, B. C., Fricker, H. A., Harwood, D. M., Leventer, A., Priscu, J. C., Rosenheim, B. E., & SALSA Science Team. (2023). Constraints on the Timing and Extent of Deglacial Grounding Line Retreat in West Antarctica. AGU Advances, 4(2), e2022AV000846. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000846
Gustafson, C. D., Key, K., Siegfried, M. R., Winberry, J. P., Fricker, H. A., Venturelli, R. A., & Michaud, A. B. (2022). A dynamic saline groundwater system mapped beneath an Antarctic ice stream. Science, 376(6593), 640-+. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm3301
Livingstone, S. J., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R. J., Winter, K., Mikucki, J. A., Bjornsson, H., Bowling, J. S., Chu, W. N., Dow, C. F., Fricker, H. A., McMillan, M., Ng, F. S. L., Ross, N., Siegert, M. J., Siegfried, M., & Sole, A. J. (2022). Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00246-9
Spergel, J. J., Kingslake, J., Creyts, T., van Wessem, M., & Fricker, H. A. (2021). Surface meltwater drainage and ponding on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, 1973-2019. Journal of Glaciology, 67(266), 985–998. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.46
Priscu, J. C., Kalin, J., Winans, J., Campbell, T., Siegfried, M. R., Skidmore, M., Dore, J. E., Leventer, A., Harwood, D. M., Duling, D., Zook, R., Burnett, J., Gibson, D., Krula, E., Mironov, A., McManis, J., Roberts, G., Rosenheim, B. E., Christner, B. C., … Salsa Sci Team. (2021). Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations. Annals of Glaciology, 62(85–86), 340–352. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2021.10
Becker, M. K., Howard, S. L., Fricker, H. A., Padman, L., Mosbeux, C., & Siegfried, M. R. (2021). Buoyancy-driven flexure at the front of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, observed with ICESat-2 laser altimetry. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl091207
Adusumilli, S., Fish, M., Fricker, H. A., & Medley, B. (2021). Atmospheric river precipitation contributed to rapid increases in surface height of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in 2019. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl091076
Walker, C. C., Becker, M. K., & Fricker, H. A. (2021). A high resolution, three-dimensional view of the D-28 calving event from Amery Ice Shelf With ICESat-2 and satellite imagery. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl091200
Fair, Z., Flanner, M., Brunt, K. M., Fricker, H. A., & Gardner, A. (2020). Using ICESat-2 and Operation IceBridge altimetry for supraglacial lake depth retrievals. Cryosphere, 14(11), 4253–4263. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4253-2020
Klein, E., Mosbeux, C., Bromirski, P. D., Padman, L., Bock, Y., Springer, S. R., & Fricker, H. A. (2020). Annual cycle in flow of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica: contribution of variable basal melting. Journal of Glaciology, 66(259), 861–875. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.61
Khalsa, S. J. S., Borsa, A., Nandigam, V., Phan, M., Lin, K., Crosby, C., Fricker, H., Baru, C., & Lopez, L. (2020). OpenAltimetry-rapid analysis and visualization of Spaceborne altimeter data. Earth Science Informatics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-020-00520-2
Scambos, T. A., Stammerjohn, S., Abrahamsen, E. P., Barreira, S., Bitz, C. M., Butler, A., Clem, K. R., Colwell, S., Coy, L., de Laat, J., du Plessis, M. D., Fogt, R. L., Fricker, H. A., Fyfe, J., Gardner, A. S., Gille, S. T., Gorte, T., Gregor, L., Hobbs, W., … Wang, L. (2020). Antarctica and the Southern Ocean [in “State of the Climate in 2019]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(8), S287–S320. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0090.1
Mosbeux, C., Wagner, T. J. W., Becker, M. K., & Fricker, H. A. (2020). Viscous and elastic buoyancy stresses as drivers of ice-shelf calving. Journal of Glaciology, 66(258), 643–657. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.35
Venturelli, R. A., Siegfried, M. R., Roush, K. A., Li, W., Burnett, J., Zook, R., Fricker, H. A., Priscu, J. C., Leventer, A., & Rosenheim, B. E. (2020). Mid-Holocene Grounding Line Retreat and Readvance at Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(15). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088476
Adusumilli, S., Fricker, H. A., Medley, B., Padman, L., & Siegfried, M. R. (2020). Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0616-z
Smith, B., Fricker, H. A., Gardner, A. S., Medley, B., Nilsson, J., Paolo, F. S., Holschuh, N., Adusumilli, S., Brunt, K., Csatho, B., Harbeck, K., Markus, T., Neumann, T., Siegfried, M. R., & Zwally, H. J. (2020). Pervasive ice sheet mass loss reflects competing ocean and atmosphere processes. Science, 368(6496), 1239-+. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz5845
Begeman, C. B., Tulaczyk, S., Padman, L., King, M., Siegfried, M. R., Hodson, T. O., & Fricker, H. A. (2020). Tidal pressurization of the ocean cavity near an Antarctic ice shelf grounding line. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 125(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015562
Das, I., Padman, L., Bell, R. E., Fricker, H. A., Tinto, K. J., Hulbe, C. L., Siddoway, C. S., Dhakal, T., Frearson, N. P., Mosbeux, C., Cordero, S. I., & Siegfried, M. R. (2020). Multidecadal basal melt rates and structure of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using airborne ice penetrating radar. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 125(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005241
Smith, B., Fricker, H. A., Holschuh, N., Gardner, A. S., Adusumilli, S., Brunt, K. M., Csatho, B., Harbeck, K., Huth, A., Neumann, T., Nilsson, J., & Siegfried, M. R. (2019). Land ice height-retrieval algorithm for NASA’s ICESat-2 photon-counting laser altimeter. Remote Sensing of Environment, 233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111352
Gudmundsson, G. H., Paolo, F. S., Adusumilli, S., & Fricker, H. A. (2019). Instantaneous Antarctic ice sheet mass loss driven by thinning ice shelves. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl085027
Borsa, A. A., Fricker, H. A., & Brunt, K. M. (2019). A terrestrial validation of ICESat elevation measurements and implications for global reanalyses. Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 57(9), 6946–6959. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2019.2909739
Tinto, K. J., Padman, L., Siddoway, C. S., Springer, S. R., Fricker, H. A., Das, I., Tontini, F. C., Porter, D. F., Frearson, N. P., Howard, S. L., Siegfried, M. R., Mosbeux, C., Becker, M. K., Bertinato, C., Boghosian, A., Brady, N., Burton, B. L., Chu, W., Cordero, S. I., … Bell, R. E. (2019). Ross Ice Shelf response to climate driven by the tectonic imprint on seafloor bathymetry. Nature Geoscience, 12(6), 441-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0370-2
Shepherd, A., Fricker, H. A., & Farrell, S. L. (2018). Trends and connections across the Antarctic cryosphere. Nature, 558(7709), 223–232. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0171-6
Adusumilli, S., Fricker, H. A., Siegfried, M. R., Padman, L., Paolo, F. S., & Ligtenberg, S. R. M. (2018). Variable basal melt rates of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves, 1994-2016. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(9), 4086–4095. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl076652
Siegfried, M. R., & Fricker, H. A. (2018). Thirteen years of subglacial lake activity in Antarctica from multi-mission satellite altimetry. Annals of Glaciology, 59(76), 42–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2017.36
Minchew, B. M., Gudmundsson, G. H., Gardner, A. S., Paolo, F. S., & Fricker, H. A. (2018). Modeling the dynamic response of outlet glaciers to observed ice-shelf thinning in the Bellingshausen Sea Sector, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 64(244), 333–342. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2018.24
Padman, L., Siegfried, M. R., & Fricker, H. A. (2018). Ocean tide influences on the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Reviews of Geophysics, 56(1), 142–184. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016rg000546
Paolo, F. S., Padman, L., Fricker, H. A., Adusumilli, S., Howard, S., & Siegfried, M. R. (2018). Response of Pacific-sector Antarctic ice shelves to the El Nino/Southern Oscillation. Nature Geoscience, 11(2), 121-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-017-0033-0
Damsgaard, A., Suckale, J., Piotrowski, J. A., Houssais, M., Siegfried, M. R., & Fricker, H. A. (2017). Sediment behavior controls equilibrium width of subglacial channels. Journal of Glaciology, 63(242), 1034–1048. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2017.71
Sun, X. L., Abshire, J. B., Borsa, A. A., Fricker, H. A., Yi, D. H., DiMarzio, J. P., Paolo, F. S., Brunt, K. M., Harding, D. J., & Neumann, G. A. (2017). ICESAT/GLAS Altimetry Measurements: Received Signal Dynamic Range and Saturation Correction. Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55(10), 5440–5454. https://doi.org/10.1109/tgrs.2017.2702126
Markus, T., Neumann, T., Martino, A., Abdalati, W., Brunt, K., Csatho, B., Farrell, S., Fricker, H., Gardner, A., Harding, D., Jasinski, M., Kwok, R., Magruder, L., Lubin, D., Luthcke, S., Morison, J., Nelson, R., Neuenschwander, A., Palm, S., … Zwally, J. (2017). The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2): Science requirements, concept, and implementation. Remote Sensing of Environment, 190, 260–273. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.029
Carter, S. P., Fricker, H. A., & Siegfried, M. R. (2017). Antarctic subglacial lakes drain through sediment-floored canals: theory and model testing on real and idealized domains. Cryosphere, 11(1), 381–405. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-381-2017
Paolo, F. S., Fricker, H. A., & Padman, L. (2016). Constructing improved decadal records of Antarctic ice shelf height change from multiple satellite radar altimeters. Remote Sensing of Environment, 177, 192–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.026
Alley, K. E., Scambos, T. A., Siegfried, M. R., & Fricker, H. A. (2016). Impacts of warm water on Antarctic ice shelf stability through basal channel formation. Nature Geosci, advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2675
Siegfried, M. R., Fricker, H. A., Carter, S. P., & Tulaczyk, S. (2016). Episodic ice velocity fluctuations triggered by a subglacial flood in West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(6), 2640–2648. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl067758
Mikucki, J. A., Lee, P. A., Ghosh, D., Purcell, A. M., Mitchell, A. C., Mankoff, K. D., Fisher, A. T., Tulaczyk, S., Carter, S., Siegfried, M. R., Fricker, H. A., Hodson, T., Coenen, J., Powell, R., Scherer, R., Vick-Majors, T., Achberger, A. A., Christner, B. C., Tranter, M., & Wissard Sci Team. (2016). Subglacial Lake Whillans microbial biogeochemistry: a synthesis of current knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2059). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0290
Marsh, O. J., Fricker, H. A., Siegfried, M. R., Christianson, K., Nicholls, K. W., Corr, H. F. J., & Catania, G. (2016). High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(1), 250–255. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl066612
Fricker, H. A., Siegfried, M. R., Carter, S. P., & Scambos, T. A. (2016). A decade of progress in observing and modelling Antarctic subglacial water systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 374(2059). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0294
Bougamont, M., Christoffersen, P., Price, S. F., Fricker, H. A., Tulaczyk, S., & Carter, S. P. (2015). Reactivation of Kamb Ice Stream tributaries triggers century-scale reorganization of Siple Coast ice flow in West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20), 8471–8480. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015gl065782
Walker, C. C., Bassis, J. N., Fricker, H. A., & Czerwinski, R. J. (2015). Observations of interannual and spatial variability in rift propagation in the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2002-14. Journal of Glaciology, 61(226), 243–252. https://doi.org/10.3189/2015JoG14J151
Paolo, F. S., Fricker, H. A., & Padman, L. (2015). Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating. Science, 348(6232), 327–331. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa0940
Holland, P. R., Brisbourne, A., Corr, H. F. J., McGrath, D., Purdon, K., Paden, J., Fricker, H. A., Paolo, F. S., & Fleming, A. H. (2015). Oceanic and atmospheric forcing of Larsen C Ice-Shelf thinning. Cryosphere, 9(3), 1005–1024. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-9-1005-2015
Massom, R. A., Giles, A. B., Warner, R. C., Fricker, H. A., Legresy, B., Hyland, G., Lescarmontier, L., & Young, N. (2015). External influences on the Mertz Glacier Tongue (East Antarctica) in the decade leading up to its calving in 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 120(3), 490–506. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014jf003223
Holt, T. O., Glasser, N. F., Fricker, H. A., Padman, L., Luckman, A., King, O., Quincey, D. J., & Siegfried, M. R. (2014). The structural and dynamic responses of Stange Ice Shelf to recent environmental change. Antarctic Science, 26(6), 646–660. https://doi.org/10.1017/s095410201400039x