Publications
Submitted/In Review
Asmita Banerjee, Edward J. Brook, Christo Buizert, et al. Triple isotopes of oxygen as a proxy for carbon dioxide in altered Early Pleistocene ice core samples. ESS Open Archive. 08 May 2026.DOI: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15002744/v2
Brown, N., Davidge, L., Lowes-Bicay, H., Schauer, A.J., Steig, E.J. Comparison of sample memory effects for vaporizers used in CFA analysis of water isotopes of ice cores using cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, submitted.
Fudge, T. J., Koutnik, M., Young, D., Singh, S., Yan, S., Blankenship, D., Kerr, M., Parrenin, F., and Chung, A., Stability of interior East Antarctic wind scour and ice flow for multiple glacial-interglacial cycles, in review, Journal of Glaciology.
Hudak, A., Banerjee, A., Buizert, C., Brook, E., Kalk, M., Davidge, L., Schauer, A. J., Steig, E. J., Brown, N., Kirkpatrick, L., Manos, J.-M., Chalif, J. I., Osterberg, E., Miranda, M. H., Saltzman, E., Yan, Y., Hishamunda, V., and Higgins, J.: Fidelity and stratigraphy of the Antarctic Allan Hills old ice archive from Continuous Flow Analysis, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2045, 2026.
Kerr, M. E., Young, D. A., Yan, S., and Pierce, C. R. Current Antarctic geothermal heat flow models do not capture South Pole Basin heterogeneity, in review, Geophysical Research Letters.
John-Morgan Manos, Marguerite Shaya, Liam Kirkpatrick, Daniel R. Shapiro, T.J. Fudge, Eric J. Steig, John A. Higgins, Bradley P. Lipovsky. Present-day ice flow at sites preserving old ice in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area (BIA), Antarctica.
2026
Kerr, M., Young, D. A., Yan, S., & Pierce, C. (2026). Radar specularity content indicates a strong geothermal heat flow gradient in Antarctica's South Pole basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL120928. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120928
Marks-Peterson, J., Shackleton, S., Higgins, J., Severinghaus, J., Yan, Y., Buizert, C., Kalk, M., Beaudette, R., Hishamunda, V., Eves, D., Carter, A., Kurbatov, A., Epifanio, J., Morgan, J., Nesbitt, I., Bender, M. & Brook, E.. Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years. Nature 651, 647–652 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-10032-y
Shackleton, S., Hishamunda, V., Yan, Y., Carter, A., Morgan, J., Severinghaus, J., Aarons, S., Marks-Peterson, J., Epifanio, J., Buizert, C., Brook, E., Kurbatov, A.V., Bender, M.L. & Higgins, J. Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years. Nature 651, 653–657 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10116-3
Stoll, N., Shaya, M., Kirkpatrick, L., Freitag, J., Hishamunda, V., Manos, J.-M., et al. (2026). Fabric, texture, and bubble characteristics of the million-year old Allan Hills blue ice core ALHIC1901. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131, e2026JB033890. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026JB033890
2025
Bingham, R. G., Bodart, J. A., Cavitte, M. G. P., Chung, A., Sanderson, R. J., Sutter, J. C. R., Eisen, O., Karlsson, N. B., MacGregor, J. A., Ross, N., Young, D. A., Ashmore, D. W., Born, A., Chu, W., Drews, R., Franke, S., Goel, V., Goodge, J. W., Henry, A. C. J., Hermant, A., Hills, B. H., Holschuh, N., Koutnik, M. R., Vieli, G. J.-M. C. L., MacKie, E. J., Mantelli, E., Martin, C., Ng, F. S. L., Oraschewski, F. M., Napoleoni, F., Parrenin, F., Popov, S. V., Rieckh, T., Schlegel, R., Schroeder, D. M., Siegert, M. J., Teisberg, T. O., Winter, K., Cui, X., Tang, X., Yan, S., Davis, H., Dow, C. F., Fudge, T. J., Jordan, T. A., Kulessa, B., Matsuoka, K., Nyqvist, C. J., Rahnemoonfar, M., Siegfried, M. R., Singh, S., Vivnjević, V., Zamora, R., and Zuhr, A. Antarctica's internal architecture: progress towards developing a radiostratigraphically-informed age-depth model across the continental ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 19, 4611–4655, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-4611-2025
Bruns, C. J., Huffman, D. R., Neff, P. D., Timm, K. M. F., & Roop, H. A. (2025). Rising Seas: Representations of Antarctica, Climate Change, And Sea Level Rise in U.S. Newspaper Coverage. Environmental Communication, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2025.2512373
Carter, A. 2025. Mineral dust as a physical and geochemical tracer of climate and stratigraphy in ice cores drilled at the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area in East Antarctica. [Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego]. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vp5q43m
Davidge, L. 2025. Developing water isotope records from stratigraphically disturbed blue ice: observations, limitations, and insights from the Allan Hills of Antarctica. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington.] https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/items/ddbcfb84-5764-405c-9d5b-69f0d5d72037
Huffman, D.R., Bruns, C.J., Neff, P.D., & Roop, H. A. Social network analysis to understand participant engagement in transdisciplinary team science: a large U.S. Science and Technology Center case study. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 405 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04677-3
Kirkpatrick, L. R., Carter, A. J., Marks-Peterson, J., Shackleton, S., & Fudge, T. J. (2025). Three-dimensional multitrack electrical conductivity method for interpretation of complex ice core stratigraphy. Journal of Glaciology, 71, e105. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.10081
Mutter, E. L. and Holschuh, N.: Advancing interpretation of incoherent scattering in ice-penetrating radar data used for ice core site selection, The Cryosphere, 19, 3159–3176, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-3159-2025, 2025.
Sailer, Marc J., Tyler J. Fudge, John D. Patterson, Shuai Yan, Duncan A. Young, Shivangini Singh, Don Blankenship, and Megan Kerr. "Ice core site considerations from modeling CO2 and O2/N2 ratio diffusion in interior East Antarctica." Climate of the Past 21, no. 11 (2025): 2389-2406. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2389-2025.
S. Shackleton, V. Hishamunda, L. Davidge, E. Brook, J.M. Peterson, A. Carter, S. Aarons, A. Kurbatov, D. Introne, Y. Yan, I.M. Nesbitt, C. Buizert, E.J. Steig, A.J. Schauer, J. Morgan, P.D. Neff, J.A. Epifanio, J. Severinghaus, M. Bender, & J.A. Higgins, Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (44) e2502681122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2502681122 (2025).
Shaya, M. F., Nash, J. D., Pettit, E. C., Amundson, J. M., Jackson, R. H., Sutherland, D. A., & Winters, D. (2025). Calving as a source of acute and persistent kinetic energy to enhance submarine melting of tidewater glaciers. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL117900. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117900
Yan, S., Koutnik, M. R., Blankenship, D. D., Greenbaum, J. S., Young, D. A., Roberts, J. L. van Ommen, T., Sun, B., and Siegert, M. J. (2025). Holocene hydrological evolution of subglacial Lake Snow Eagle, East Antarctica, implied by englacial radiostratigraphy. Journal of Glaciology, 71, e29. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.15
Yan, S., Young, D. A., Blankenship, D. D., Fudge, T. J., Li, D., Lindzey, L., Reeves, H., Vega-Gonzalez, A., Singh, S., Kerr, M., Wilbur, E., and Koutnik, M.: Basal unit radar characteristics at the southern flank of Dome A, East Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 20, 453–465, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-453-2026, 2026.
Young, D. A., Paden, J. D., Yan, S., Kerr, M. E., Singh, S., Vega González, A., et al. (2025). Coupled ice sheet structure and bedrock geology in the deep interior of East Antarctica: Results from Dome A and the South Pole Basin. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115729. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115729
2024
Aydin, M., Nicewonger, M. R., Britten, G. L., Winski, D., Whelan, M., Patterson, J. D., Osterberg, E., Lee, C. F., Harder, T., Callahan, K. J., Ferris, D., and Saltzman, E. S.: Carbonyl sulfide measurements from a South Pole ice core and implications for atmospheric variability since the last glacial period, Clim. Past, 20, 1885–1917, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1885-2024, 2024.
Campos Ayala, J. 2024. A 21,000-year biomass burning reconstruction derived from acetylene measurements of polar ice cores. [Doctoral dissertation, University of California Irvine.] https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77r1n9bh
Fudge, T. J., Sauvage, R., Vu, L., Hills, B. H., Severi, M., and Waddington, E. D.: Effective diffusivity of sulfuric acid in Antarctic ice cores, Clim. Past, 20, 297–312, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-297-2024, 2024.
Louise Huffman, Lars Demant-Poort. 2024. Chapter 2 (p, 26-40): The School of Snow and Ice (SNOWI): Professional Development for Middle and High School Educators in Ice Core Science and Climate Change. Polar and Climate Change Education: Citizen Science and Sustainability, edited by Gisele Arruda.
S. Kaundinya et al., "A Multi-Channel Airborne UHF Radar Sounder System for Oldest Ice Exploration: Development and Data Collection," IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 41-44, https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640448.
Ng, J., Severinghaus, J., Bay, R., and Tosi, D. (2024) Evaluating marine dust records as templates for optical dating of Oldest Ice, Climate of the Past, 20, 1437–1449, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1437-2024, 2024.
Sanderson RJ, Ross N, Winter K, et al. Dated radar-stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica: old ice potential and ice sheet history. Journal of Glaciology. 2024;70:e74. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.60
Stål, T., Halpin, J. A., Goodge, J. W., & Reading, A. M. (2024). Geology matters for Antarctic geothermal heat. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110098. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110098.
2023
Bruns, C. J., & Andersen, I. V. (2023). The worth of nature: Valuations of glaciers in Alaskan and Norwegian media discourse. Environmental Communication, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2263655
Karplus, M.S., T.J. Young, S. Anandakrishnan, J.N. Bassis, E.H. Case, A.J. Crawford, Gold, L. Henry, J. Kingslake, A.A. Lehrmann, P.A. Montano, E.C. Pettit, T.A. Scambos, E.M. Sheffield, E.C. Smith, M. Turrin, and J.S. Wellner. 2023. Strategies to build a positive and inclusive Antarctic field work environment. Annals of Glaciology, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2023.32
Z. Liu; C. He; M. Yan; C. Buizert; B. Otto-Bliesner; F. Lu; C. Zeng: Reconstruction of past Antarctica temperature using present seasonal d18O-inversion layer temperature: Unified Slope Equations and Applications, Journal of Climate 36:2933-2957, 2023.
Ng, J. 2023. Climate insights from below and to the left: Noble gas constraints on groundwater recharge, dating Antarctic Oldest Ice, and colonial geoscience in the energy transition [Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego]. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kq1r3b9
Yan, S., 2023. Geophysical Investigation of Subglacial Lake Snow Eagle, East Antarctica. [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin]
2022
Davidge, L., Steig, E. J., and Schauer, A. J.: Improving continuous-flow analysis of triple oxygen isotopes in ice cores: insights from replicate measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 15, 7337–7351, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7337-2022
Shuai Yan, Donald D. Blankenship, Jamin S. Greenbaum, Duncan A. Young, Lin Li, Anja Rutishauser, Jingxue Guo, Jason L. Roberts, Tas D. van Ommen, Martin J. Siegert, Bo Sun; A newly discovered subglacial lake in East Antarctica likely hosts a valuable sedimentary record of ice and climate change. Geology 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G50009.1