PUBLICATIONS

Proshutinsky, A., M. Steele, and M.-L. Timmermans, Forum for Arctic Modeling and Observational Synthesis (FAMOS): Past, current, and future activities, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JC011898, 2016.

Pope, A., Scambos, T.A., Moussavi, M., Tedesco, M., Willis, M., Shean, D.E., Grigsby, S., Estimating Supraglacial Lake Depth with Landsat 8, with Implications for Multispectral-derived Lake Depth Using Other Sensors, The Cryosphere, 9, 3257-3292, doi:10.5194/tcd-9-3257-2015, 2015.

Schweiger, A. J., and J. Zhang (2015), Accuracy of short-term sea ice drift forecasts using a coupled ice-ocean model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1002/2015jc011273.

Bieniek, P., U. Bhatt, D. Walker, M. Raynolds, J. Comiso, H. Epstein, J. Pinzon, C. Tucker, R. Thoman, H. Tran, N. Mölders, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and W. Ermold, The role of climate drivers in the seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation change, Earth Interactions, doi:10.1175/EI-D-15-0013.1, 2015.

Steele, M. and W. Ermold, Loitering of the retreating sea ice edge in the Arctic Seas, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2015JC011182, 2015.

Light, B., D. K. Perovich, M. A. Webster, C. Polashenski, and R. Dadic (2015), Optical properties of melting first-year Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 7657–7675, doi:10.1002/2015JC011163.

Carns, R. C., R. E. Brandt, and S. G. Warren (2015), Salt precipitation in sea ice and its effect on albedo, with application to Snowball Earth, J. Geophys. Res. Ocean., 120(3), 2370–2384, doi:10.1002/2014JC010516.

Doherty, S., M. Steele, I. Rigor, and S. G. Warren, Interannual variations of light-absorbing particles in snow on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD024018, 2015

Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., R. I. Cullather, W. Wang, J. Zhang, and C. M. Bitz, Model forecast skill and sensitivity to initial conditions in the seasonal Sea Ice Outlook, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 8042-8048, doi:10.1002/2015GL0658, 2015.

Toner, J. D., D. C. Catling, and B. Light (2015), A revised Pitzer model for low-temperature soluble salt assemblages at the Phoenix site, Mars, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 166, 327–343, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.011.

Bieniek, P. A., U. S. Bhatt, D. A. Walker, M. K. Raynolds, J. C. Comiso, H. E. Epstein, J. E. Pinzon, C. J. Tucker, R. L. Thoman, H. Tran, N. Mölders, M. Steele, J. Zhang, and W. Ermold, Climate drivers linked to changing seasonality of Alaska coastal tundra vegetation productivity. Earth Interactions, 19, No. 19, 2015.

Allstadt, K.E., Shean, D.E., Campbell, A., Fahnestock, M., Malone, S.D., Observations of seasonal and diurnal glacier velocities at Mount Rainier, Washington using terrestrial radar interferometry, The Cryosphere, 9, 4067-4116, doi:10.5194/tcd-9-4067-2015, 2015

Stevens, L.A., Behn, M.D., McGuire, J.J., Das, S.B., Joughin, I., Herring, T., Shean, D.E., M. A. King, Greenland supraglacial lake drainages triggered by hydrologically induced basal slip, Nature, 522, 7554, 73-76, doi:10.1038/nature14480, 2015.

Webster, M. A., I. G. Rigor, D. K. Perovich, J. A. Richter-Menge, C. M. Polashenski, and B. Light (2015), Seasonal evolution of melt ponds on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 5968–5982, doi:10.1002/ 2015JC011030.

Cameron, K.A., B. Hagedorn, M. Dieser, B.C. Christner, K. Choquette, R. Sletten, B. Crump, C. Kellogg, and K. Junge. 2015. Diversity and potential sources of microbiota associated with snow on western portions of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Environmental Microbiology, 17:594-609.

Dieser, M., E.L.J.E. Broemsen, K.A. Cameron, G.M. King, A. Achberger, K. Choquette, B. Hagedorn, R. Sletten, K. Junge, and B.C. Christner. 2014. Molecular and biogeochemical evidence for methane cycling beneath the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet. ISME Journal, 8:2305-2316.

Woodgate, R.A., K.M. Stafford, and F.G. Praha, “A synthesis of year-round interdisciplinary mooring measurements in the Bering Strait (1990–2014) and the RUSALCA years (2004–2011),” Oceanography,28,46-67, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2015.57, 2015.

Overeem, Irina, Hudson, B.D., Welty, E., Mikkelson, A., Pederson, D., LeWinter, and A., Hasholt, B., 2015, River Inundation Suggests Ice-Sheet Runoff Retention, Journal of Glaciology 61 (228): 776-788. doi.org/10.3189/2015JoG15J012

C.M. Frantz, V.A. Petryshyn, F.A. Corsetti (2015) “Grain trapping by filamentous cyanobacterial and algal mats: implications for stromatolite microfabrics through time.” Geobiology, V.13:409-423, doi:10.1111/gbi.12145

Collow, T.W., W. Wang, A. Kumar, and J. Zhang, Improving Arctic sea ice prediction using PIOMAS initial sea ice thickness in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model, Mon. Wea. Rev., 143, 4618-4630, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-15-0097.1, 2015.

Liu, Z., A. Muhlbauer, and T. Ackerman (2015), ‘Evaluation of high-level clouds in cloud resolving model smulations with ARM and KWAJEX observations’, J. Adv. Model. Earth. Syst., 7, doi: 10.1002/2015MS000478.

Light, B., R. C. Carns, and S. G. Warren (2015), “Albedo dome”: a method for measuring spectral flux-reflectance in a laboratory for media with long optical paths, Appl. Opt., 54(17), 5260–5269.

Zhang, J., A. Schweiger, M. Steele, and H. Stern, Sea ice floe size distribution in the marginal ice zone: Theory and numerical experiments, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JC010770, 2015

Patyk, K.A., C. Duncan, P. Nol, C. Sonne, K. Laidre, M. Obbard, Ø. Wiig, J. Aars, E. Regehr, L.L. Gustafson, and T. Atwood. 2015. Establishing a definition of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) health: A guide to research and management activities. Science of the Total Environment 514:371-378.

Toner, J. D., D. C. Catling, and B. Light (2015), Modeling salt precipitation from brines on Mars : Evaporation versus freezing origin for soil salts, Icarus, 250, 451–461, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.013.

Light, B., S. Dickinson, D. K. Perovich, and M. M. Holland (2015), Evolution of summer Arctic sea ice albedo in CCSM4 simulations: Episodic summer snowfall and frozen summers, J. Geophys. Res., 120, 284–303, doi:10.1002/2014JC010149

Joughin, I., Smith, B.E., Shean, D.E., Floricioiu, D., Brief Communication: Further summer speedup of Jakobshavn Isbrae, The Cryosphere, 8, 209-214, doi:10.5194/tc-8-209-2014, 2014.

Polashenski, C., D. K. Perovich, K. E. Frey, L. W. Cooper, C. I. Logvinova, R. Dadic, B. Light, H. P. Kelly, L. D. Trusel, and M. Webster (2015), Physical and morphological properties of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during the 2010 and 2011 NASA ICESCAPE missions, Deep. Res. Part II Top. Stud. Oceanogr., 118, 7–17, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.04.006.

Poinar, K., I. Joughin, S. B. Das, M. D. Behn, J. T. M. Lenaerts, and M. R. van den Broeke (2015). Limits to future expansion of surface‐melt‐enhanced ice flow into the interior of western Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1002/2015GL063192.

Alkire, M.B., J. Morison, A. Schweiger, J. Zhang, M. Steele, C. Peralta-Ferriz, S. Dickinson (2017). A meteoric water budget for the Arctic Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.

Alkire, M. B., A. D. Jacobson, G.O Lehn, and R.W. Macdonald (2015). Small rivers could have big impact on Arctic Ocean, Eos 96, doi:10.1029/2015EO034005.

Alkire, M.B., F. Nilsen, E. Falck, J. Søreide, and T. Gabrielsen (2015). Tracing sources of freshwater contributions to first-year sea ice in Svalbard fjords, Continental Shelf Research 101, 85-97.

Alkire, M.B., J. Morison, and R. Andersen (2015). Variability in the meteoric water, sea-ice melt, and Pacific water contributions to the central Arctic Ocean, 2000-2014, Journal of Geophysical Research 120, doi:10.1002/2014JC010023.

Alkire, M.B., E. D’Asaro, C. Lee, M.J. Perry, I. Cetinic, N. Briggs, and A. Gray (2014). Net community production and export from Seaglider measurements in the North Atlantic after the spring bloom bloom, Journal of Geophysical Research 119, doi:10.1002/2014JC010105.

Alkire, M.B., M.J. Perry, E. D’Asaro, and C. M. Lee (2013). Using sensor-based, geochemical measurements from autonomous platforms to estimate biological production and export of carbon during the 2008 North Atlantic spring bloom, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry News 6(2), 1-6.

Whiteman, J. P., H. J. Harlow, G. M. Durner, R. Anderson-Sprecher, S. E. Albeke, E. V. Regehr, S. C. Amstrup, and M. Ben-David. 2015. Summer declines in activity and body temperature offer polar bears limited energy savings. Science 349:295-298.                     DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa8623

Rode KD, Wilson RR, Regehr EV, St. Martin M, Douglas DC, Olson J (2015) Increased Land Use by Chukchi Sea Polar Bears in Relation to Changing Sea Ice Conditions. PLoS ONE 10(11): e0142213. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142213

Regehr, E. V., R. R. Wilson, K. D. Rode, and M. C. Runge. 2015. Resilience and risk—A demographic model to inform conservation planning for polar bears. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1029, 56 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1029/pdf/ofr2015-1029.pdf.

Peacock, E., S. A. Sonsthagen, M. E. Obbard, A. Boltunov, E. V. Regehr, N. Ovsyanikov, J. Aars, S. N. Atkinson, G. K. Sage, A. G. Hope, E. Zeyl, L. Bachmann, D. Ehrich, K. T. Scribner, S. C. Amstrup, S. Belikov, E. W. Born, A. E. Derocher, I. Stirling, M. K. Taylor, O. Wiig, D. Paetkau, and S. L. Talbot. 2015. Implications of the Circumpolar Genetic Structure of Polar Bears for Their Conservation in a Rapidly Warming Arctic. Plos One 10(1): e112021. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112021

Crait, J.C., E.V. Regehr, and M. Ben-David. 2015. Indirect effects of bioinvasions in Yellowstone Lake: The response of river otters to declines in native cutthroat trout. Biological Conservation 191:596-605. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2015.07.042

Bromaghin, J. F., T. L. McDonald, I. Stirling, A. E. Derocher, E. S. Richardson, E. V. Regehr, D. C. Douglas, G. M. Durner, T. Atwood, and S. C. Amstrup. 2015. Polar bear population dynamics in the southern Beaufort Sea during a period of sea ice decline. Ecological Applications 25:634-651. DOI: 10.1890/14-1129.1

Steele, M., S. Dickinson, J. Zhang, and R.W. Lindsay, Seasonal ice loss in the Beaufort Sea: Toward synchrony and prediction, J. Geophy. Res., 120, 1118-1132, doi: 10.1002/2014JC010247, 2015.

Laidre, K. L., Stern, H., Kovacs, K. M., Lowry, L., Moore, S. E., Regehr, E. V., Ferguson, S. H., Wiig, Ø., Boveng, P., Angliss, R. P., Born, E. W., Litovka, D., Quakenbush, L., Lydersen, C., Vongraven, D. and Ugarte, F. (2015), Arctic marine mammal population status, sea ice habitat loss, and conservation recommendations for the 21st century. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12474

Miller, R.L. and others including J. Zhang, CMIP5 historical simulations (1850-2012) with GISS ModelE2, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, no. 2, 441-477, doi:10.1002/2013MS000266, 2014.

Schmidt, G.A. and others including J. Zhang, Configuration and assessment of the GISS ModelE2 contributions to the CMIP5 archive, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, no. 2, 141-184, doi:10.1002/2013MS000265, 2014.

Zhang, J., C. Ashjian, R. Campbell, Y.H. Spitz, M. Steele, and V. Hill, The influence of sea ice and snow cover and nutrient availability on the formation of massive under-ice phytoplankton blooms in the Chukchi Sea, Deep-Sea Res. II, 118, 122-135, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.008, 2015.

Lindsay, R. and A. Schweiger, Arctic sea ice thickness loss determined using subsurface, aircraft, and satellite observations, The Cryosphere, 9, 269-283, doi:10.5194/tc-9-269-2015, 2015

Nazarenko, L. and others including J. Zhang, Future climate change under RCP emission scenarios with GISS ModelE2. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 7, 244-267, doi:10.1002/2014MS000403, 2015.

Li, L., A. Miller, J. McClean, I. Eisenman, and M. Hendershott, 2014: Processes driving sea ice variability in the Bering Sea in an eddying ocean/sea ice model: Anomalies from the mean seasonal cycle. Ocean Dynamics, 64, 1693-1717. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-014-0769-7