Publications

Bevis, M.G, Harig, C., Khan, S.A, Brown, A., Simons, F.J., Willis, M.J., Fettweis, X., van den Broeke, M.R., Madsen, F.B., Kendrick, E., Caccamise II, D.J., van Dam, T., Knudsen, P., Nylen., T. (2019) “Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland, and the ice sheet’s sensitivity to atmospheric forcing.” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. January 22, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806562116

Willis, M.J., Zheng, W., Durkin, W.J., Pritchard, M.E., Ramage, J.M., Dowdeswell, J.A., Benham, T.J., Bassford, R.P., Glazovsky, A., Macheret, Y., Stearns, L.E., Porter, C.E. (2018) “Massive destabilization of an Arctic ice cap” Earth and Planetary Science Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.049. Generated a large amount of media coverage.

Barletta, V.R., Bevis, M.G., Smith, B.E., Wilson, T.J., Brown, A., Bordoni, A., Willis, M.J., Khan, S.A., Rovira-Navarro, M., Dalziel, I., Smalley Jr., R., Kendrick, E.C., Konfal, S.A., Caccamise II, D.J., Aster, R.C., Nyblade, A., Wiens, D.A. (2018) “Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability.” Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aa01447. Generated a large amount of media coverage.

Berthier, E., Larsen, C., Durkin, W.J., Willis, M.J., Pritchard, M.E., (2018). Brief communication: Unabated wastage of the Juneau and Stikine icefields (southeast Alaska) in the early 21st century. The Cryosphere 12. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1523-2018

Higman,B., Shugar, D.H., Stark, C.P., Ekström, G., Koppes, M.N., Lynett, P., Dufresne, A., Haeussler, P.J., Geertsema, M., Gulick, S., Mattox, A., Venditti, J.G., Walton, M.A.L., McCal, N., Mckittrick, E., MacInnes, B., Bilderback, E.L., Tang, H., Willis, M.J., Richmond, B., Reece, R.S., Larsen, C., Olson, B., Capra, J., Ayca, A., Bloom, C., Williams, H., Bonno, D., Weiss, R., Keen, A., Skanavis, V., and Loso, M. (2018) “The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska.” Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30475-w

Shugar, D.H., Colorado, K.A., Clague, J.J., Willis, M.J. and Best, J.L. (2018) “Boundary – Mapping and Visualizing Climatically Changed Landscapes at Kaskawulsh Glacier and Kluane Lake, Yukon” Journal of Maps. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2018.1467349.

Zheng, W.*, Pritchard, M.E., Willis, M.J., Tepes, P., Gourmelen, N., Benham, T.J. and Dowdeswell, J.A. (2018) “Accelerating glacier mass loss on Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic.” Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.004.

Dufresne, A., Geertsema, M., Shugar, D.H., Koppes, M., Higman, B., Haeussler, P.J., Stark, C., Venditti, J.G., Bonno, D., Larsen, C., Gulick, S.P.S., McCall, N., Walton, M., Loso M.G. and Willis, M.J. (2017) “Sedimentology and geomorphology of a large tsunamigenic landslide, Taan Fiord, Alaska.” Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.10.004.

Smith, L.C.,Yang, K.,  Pitcher,L.H., Overstreet,B.T., Chu, V.WE., Rennermalm, A.K., Ryan, J.C., Cooper, M.G., Gleason, C.G., Tedesco, M., Jeyaratnam, J., van As, D., van den Broeke, M.R., van de Berg, W.J.,  Noël, B., Langen,P.L., Cullather,R.I.,  Zhao, B.,  Willis, M.J., Hubbard, A., Box, J.E.,  Jenner B.A. and Behar, A.E. (2017) “Direct Measurements of Meltwater Runoff on the Greenland Ice Sheet Surface” Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. December, 114 (50) E10622-E10631. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707743114 Generated a large amount of media coverage.

Durkin W.J.*, Bartholomaus T.C., Willis M.J. and Pritchard, M.E. (2017) “Dynamic Changes at Yahtse Glacier, the Most Rapidly Advancing Tidewater Glacier in Alaska.” Frontiers in Earth Science, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00021.

Shugar, D.H., Clague, J.J., Best, J.L., Schoof, C., Willis, M.J., Copland L. and Roe, G.H. (2017) “River piracy and drainage basin reorganization led by climate-driven glacier retreat” Nature Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2932 Generated a large amount of media coverage.

Stahl, T.A., Clark, M.K., Zekkos, D., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., Willis, M.J., Medwedeff, W., Knoper, L., Townsend, K. and Jonson, J. (2017) “Earthquake science in resilient societies” Tectonics. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004604

Khan, S.A., Sasgen, I., Bevis, M.G., van Dam, T., Bamber, J., Wahr, J., Wouters, B., Helm, V., Willis, M.J., Kjær, Kurt K., Csatho, B., Fleming, K., Knudsen, P. and Munneke, P.K. (2016) “Geodetic measurements reveal similarities between post Last Glacial Maximum and present-day mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet.” Science Advances, 21 Sept, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600931

Larsen, S.H., Khan, S.A., Ahlstrøm, A.P., Hvidberg, C.S., Willis, M.J. and Andersen, S.B. (2016) “Increased Mass Loss and Asynchronous Behavior of Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers at   Upernavik Isstrøm, NW Greenland.” Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JF003507

Melkonian, A.K.*, Willis, M.J. and Pritchard, M.E. (2016) “Stikine Icefield Mass Loss Between 2000 and 2013/2014.” Frontiers in Earth Science. 4, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2016.00089

Melkonian, A.K.*, Willis, M.J., Pritchard, M.E. and Stewart, A.J. (2016) “Recent changes in glacier velocities and thinning at Novaya Zemlya.” Remote Sensing of Environment, 174, 244-257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.001

Pope, A., Scambos, T.A., Moussavi, M., Tedesco, M., Willis, M.J., Shean, D. and Grigsby, S. (2016) “Estimating supraglacial lake depth in western Greenland using Landsat 8 and comparison with other multispectral methods”, The Cryosphere, 10, 15-27, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-15-2016

Willis, M.J., Herried, B.G., Bevis, M.G. and Bell, R.E. (2015) “Recharge of a subglacial lake by surface meltwater in northeast Greenland”, Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14116. Generated a large amount of media coverage.

Willis, M.J., Melkonian, A.K. and Pritchard, M.E. (2015) “Outlet glacier response to the 2012 collapse of the Matusevich Ice Shelf, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JF003544. 

Gómez, D., Smalley, Jr., R., Langston, C.A., Wilson, T.J., Bevis, M.G., Dalziel, I., Kendrick, E.C., Konfal, S.A., Willis, M.J., Piñón, D.A., Cimbaro, S.R. and Caccamise, D. (2015) “Virtual array beamforming of GPS TEC observations of coseismic ionospheric disturbances near the Geomagnetic South Pole triggered by teleseismic megathrusts.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JA021725.

Melkonian, A.K.*, Willis, M.J. and Pritchard, M.E. (2014) “Satellite-derived volume loss rates and glacier speeds for the Juneau Icefield, Alaska.” Journal of Glaciology 60, 743-760. https://doi.org/10.3189/2014JoG13J181.

A.K*., Willis, M.J.  Pritchard, M.E., Rivera, A., Bown, F. and Bernstein, S.A. (2013). “Satellite Derived Volume Loss Rates and Glacier Speeds for the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Chile.” The Cryosphere 7, 823-829, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-7-823-2013.

M.J., Melkonian, A.K. Pritchard, M.E. and Rivera, A. (2012). “Ice loss from the Southern Patagonian Icefield, South America, between 2000 and 2012.” Geophysical Research Letters. 39 https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GL053136.

Bevis, M.G., Wahr, J., Khan., S.A., Madsen, F.B., Brown, A., Willis, M.J., Kendrick, E., Knudsen., P., Box, J.E., van Dam, T., Caccamise II. D.J., Johns, B., Nylen,T., Abbott, R., White, S., Miner, J, Forsberg, R., Zhou, H., Wang, J., Wilson, T., Bromwich, D. and Francis, O. (2012). “Bedrock displacements in Greenland manifest ice mass variations, climate cycles and climate change.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 11, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204664109. 

Willis, M.J., Melkonian, A.K., Pritchard, M.E., and Ramage, J.M. (2012). “Ice loss rates at the Northern Patagonian Icefield derived using a decade of satellite remote sensing.” Remote Sensing of Environment, 117, 184-198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.09.017.

Barnhart, W.D., Willis, M.J., Lohman, R.B. and Melkonian, A.K. (2011). “InSAR and optical constraints on fault slip during the 2010-2011 New Zealand earthquake sequence.” Seismological Research Letters; November/December 2011; v. 82; no. 6; p. 815-823; https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.82.6.815.

Bevis, M.G., Kendrick, G., Smalley, Jr., R., Dalziel, I., Caccamise, D., Sasgen, I., Helsen, M., Taylor, F.W., Zhou, H., Brown, A., Raleigh, D., Willis, M.J., Wilson T.J. and Konfal, S.A. (2009). "Geodetic measurements of vertical crustal velocity in West Antarctica and the implications for ice mass balance." Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 10. https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GC002642.

Willis, M.J. (2008). “Technologies to Operate Year-Round Remote Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Stations In Extreme Environments.” in Geodetic and Geophysical Observations in Antarctica, Capra, A. and Dietrich, R. (eds). Springer-Verlag.

Willis, M.J., (2007). “Analysis of continuous GPS measurements from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica”, in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World - Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open File Report 2007-1047, Short Research Paper 064, 5p.; https://doi.org/10.3133/of2007-1047.srp064.

Konfal, S.A., Wilson, T.J., and Willis, M.J. (2007). GPS Surveys to Detect Active Faulting in the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. in Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World - Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., USGS Open File Report 2007-1047, Extended Abstract https://doi.org/10.3133/of2007-1047.ea021.

Willis, M.J., Wilson T.J. and James, T.S. (2003). “A Comparison of Measured and Modeled Bedrock Motions for Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica.” Proceedings of the workshop: The State of GPS Vertical Positioning Precision: Separation of Earth Processes by Space Geodesy. Cahiers du Centre Européen de Géodynamique et de Séismologie. Vol. 23.