The Ice & Ocean Group is a research group in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia focused on ice sheet marginal, subglacial environment, and polar ocean environments. Glacial activity produces to distinct sediments and landforms preserved in deglaciated landscapes that we study, allowing for ice-sheet reconstructions and understanding of processes that impact ice-sheet change. 

Funding for our research comes from the NSF Office of Polar Programs, International Union for Quaternary Research, UVA H.G. Goodell Endowment, and UVA Committee on Sustainability. 

Assistant Professor
PI of Ice & Ocean Group
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia

The Monacan Nation is the traditional custodian of the lands where the University of Virginia resides.

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Latest publications

Exceptions to bed-controlled ice sheet flow and retreat
from glaciated continental margins worldwide, published by Science Advances in 2021. 

Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry, published by The Cryosphere in 2020.

Foraminiferal patterns in deglacial sediment in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica: life near grounding lines, published Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology in 2020.

Timing and pathways of East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat, published in Quaternary Science Reviews in 2020. 

Sedimentary processes at ice sheet grounding-zone wedges: examples from Antarctica and Washington state, published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms in 2019. 

What we are reading

Quick reads:

• Common barriers to writing, a blog post by H. Kearns & M. Gardiner for the London School of Economics and Political Science on 16 November 2020.
• Recognizing bias, a resource by A. Yarber for the ADVANCEGeo Partnership

Longer reads:

• ​Enhanced trace element mobilization by Earth’s ice sheets, a peer-reviewed article by Hawking et al. published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

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Archived readings.

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