Speaker Readings and Presentations
Bernard Coakley's Readings & Presentation
Bernard J. Coakley and James R. Cochran: Gravity evidence of very thin crust at the Gakkel Ridge (Arctic Ocean) Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 162 (1998) 81-95
Required Reading
Vicki A. Childers et al.: New gravity data in the Arctic Ocean: Comparison of airborne and ERS gravity JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 106, NO. B5, PAGES 8871 - 8886, MAY 10, 2001
Required Reading
Video Presentation (various formats)
Submarines, Satellites, Planes and Icebreakers, building a gravity anomaly grid for the Arctic Ocean; History and Applications
Bernard Coakley
Quicktime
James L. Davis' Readings & Presentation
Tamisiea, M.E., and J.X. Mitrovica. 2011. The moving boundaries of sea level change: Understanding the origins of geographic variability. Oceanography 24(2):24-39, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.25.
Required Reading
Emma M. Hill et al.: Combination of geodetic observations and models for glacial isostatic adjustment fields in Fennoscandia JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, B07403, doi:10.1029/2009JB006967, 2010
Required Reading
M. E. Tamisiea et al.: Impact of self‐attraction and loading on the annual cycle in sea level, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, C07004, doi:10.1029/2009JC005687, 2010
Required Reading
PowerPoint Presentation
The Role of Gravitational Self-attraction and Loading on Deformation of the Continents and Sea Floor
Quicktime
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Isabella Velicogna's Readings & Presentation
Velicogna I., Wahr J.: Time variable gravity shows a large mass loss in Antarctica, Science, VOL. 311, 1754-1756, doi:10.1126/science11237855.
Required Reading
Velicogna I.: Increasing rates of ice mass loss from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets revealed by GRACE, Geophys. Res. Lett., VOL. 36, L19503, doi:10.1029/2009GL040222.
Required Reading
Video Presentation (various formats)
Mass Balance of the Polar Ice Sheet from GRACE
Isabella Velicogna
Quicktime
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Geodynamics/isabellaR.mov
Webm
http://mex1.whoi.edu:8080/http2/WHOI_CMS/Events/Geodynamics/isabella.webm
John Wahr's Readings & Presentation
Wahr, J.M., 2007. Time variable gravity from satellites. Treatise on Geophysics, Schubert, G. (ed). Vol. 3, pp. 213-218, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd.
Required Reading
Thomas Jacob, John Wahr, W. Tad Pfeffer, & Sean Swenson: Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise, 5 1 4 | N AT U R E | VO L 4 8 2 | 2 3 F E B R U A RY 2 0 1 2
Required Reading
Thomas Jacob, John Wahr, W. Tad Pfeffer, & Sean Swenson: Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise, 5 1 4 | N AT U R E | VO L 4 8 2 | 2 3 F E B R U A RY 2 0 1 2, Supplementary Information
Additional recommended reading
John Wahr and Mery Molenaar: Time variability of the Earth's gravity field: Hydrological and oceanic effects and their possible detection using GRACE, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 103, NO. B12, PAGES 30,205-30,229, DECEMBER 10, 1998
Additional recommended reading
V. M. Tiwari, J. Wahr, and S. Swenson: Dwindling groundwater resources in northern India, from satellite gravity observations, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 36, 2009
Additional recommended reading
Video Presentation (various formats)
Using GRACE to estimate groundwater depletion, soil moisture variability, and ice loss from mountain glaciers and ice caps.
Quicktime
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Don Forsyth's Readings & Presentation
Nicholas Harmon et al.: Mantle heterogeneity and off axis volcanism on young Pacific lithosphere, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 311 (2011) 306-315
Required reading
David Sandwell and Yuri Fialko: Warping and cracking of the Pacific plate by thermal contraction, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 109, 2004
Required reading
Nicholas Harmon, Donald W. Forsyth, and Daniel S. Scheirer: Analysis of gravity and topography in the GLIMPSE study region: Isostatic compensation and uplift of the Sojourn and Hotu Matua Ridge systems, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 111, 2006
Additional reading
Video Presentation (various formats)
Gravity Lineaments in the Pacific and Small-scale Convection
Frederik Simons' Readings & Presentation
Christopher Harig, and Frederik J. Simons: Mapping Greenland's Mass Loss in Space and Time, PREPRINT - Do not distribute
Required reading
Lei Wang et al.: Coseismic Slip of the 2010 Mw 8.8 Great Maule, Chile, Earthquake Quantified by the Inversion of GRACE Observations, Submitted - Do Not Redistribute
Required reading
Video Presentation (various formats)
Turning Noise Into Signal: GRACE, glacial melting, and the coseismic signature of large earthquakes
Windows
Carl Bowin's Readings & Presentation
Carl Bowin: Mass Anomaly Structure Of The Earth Reviews of Geophysics, 38, 3 I August 2000, pages 355-387
Required reading
Carl Bowin: Plate tectonics conserves angular momentum, eEarth, 5, 1-20, 2010
Required reading
Video of Presentation (various formats)
Tony Watts' Readings & Presentation
A. B. WATTS: An Analysis of Isostasy in the World's Oceans, DECEMBER, 1. Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH VOL. 83, NO. BI2, DECEMBER 10, 1978
Required reading
A.B. Watts and E.B. Burov: Lithospheric strength and its relationship to the elastic and seismogenic layer thickness,Earth and Planetary Science Letters 213 (2003) 113-131
Required reading
L.M. Kalnins, and A.B. Watts: Spatial variations in effective elastic thickness in the Western Paci!c Ocean and their implications for Mesozoic volcanism, Earth and Planetary Science Letters286 (2009) 89100
Suggested reading
A. B. Watt and S. Zhong: Observations of flexure and the rheology of oceanic lithosphere, Geophys. J. Int. (2000) 142, 885-875
Suggested reading
J. Stewart and A. B. Watts Gravity anomalies and spatial variations of flexural rigidity at mountain ranges,JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 102, NO. B3, PAGES 5327-5352, MARCH 10, 1997
Suggested reading
A. B. WATTS: Gravity anomalies, crustal structure and flexure of the lithosphere at the Baltimore Canyon Trough, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 89 (1988) 221-238
Suggested reading
G. D. Karner and A. B. Watts: Gravity Anomalies and Flexure of the Lithosphere at Mountain Ranges, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 88, NO. B12, PAGES 10,449-10,477, DECEMBER 10, 1983
Suggested reading
Video of Presentaion (various formats)
Gravity, Isostasy and Flexure
Tony Watts
Windows
Steve Nerem's Readings & Presentation
R. S. Nerem and J. Wahr: Recent changes in the Earth's oblateness driven by Greenland and Antarctic ice mass loss, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 38, L13501, doi:10.1029/2011GL047879, 2011
Required reading
Thomas Jacob et al.: Recent contributions of glaciers and ice caps to sea level rise, Nature Letterdoi:10.1038/nature10847, Published online 08 February 2012
Required reading
Carmen Boening et al.: 2011 La Nina: So Strong, the Oceans Fell, IN REVIEW with Nature (Do Not Redistribute)
Recommended
PowerPoint Presentation
Applications of Satellite Gravity Measurements to Studying Sea Level Change
Steve Nerem
Video of Presentation (various formats)
Windows
Robin Bell's Readings & Presentation
Robin Bell, et al.: Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations, Letters to Nature, Nature |Vol 394 | 2 July 1998
Required reading
Robin E. Bell, et al.: Widespread Persistent Thickening of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet by Freezing from the Base, Science 331, 1592 (2011)
Required reading
Gravity Insights from Beneath the Ice Sheets
Robin Bell
Windows
Victor Zlotnicki's Readings & Presentation
A. Griesel, M. R. Mazloff, and S. T. Gille1: Mean dynamic topography in the Southern Ocean: Evaluating Antarctic Circumpolar Current transport, Journal Of Geophysical Research, Vol. 117, C01020, doi:10.1029/2011JC007573, 2012
Required reading
Don P. Chambers, and Jens Schroter: Measuring ocean mass variability from satellite gravimetry, Journal of Geodynamics 52 (2011) 333-343
Required reading
PowerPoint Presentation
The Gravity Field and Ocean Circulation
Video of Presentation (various formats)
The Gravity Field and Ocean Circulation
Victor Zlotnicki
Quicktime
Windows
Marie Zuber's Readings & Presentation
James G. Williams: A scheme for lunar inner core detection, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, L03202, doi:10.1029/2006GL028185, 2007
Required reading
David E. Smith et al.: Gravity Field and Internal Structure of Mercury from MESSENGER, Submitted to: Science, January 4, 2012
Required reading
Video of Presentation (various formats)
Interior structures of Mercury and the Moon from MESSENGER and GRAIL Gravity
Maria Zuber
Windows
Jian Lin's Readings & Presentation
Tingting Wang, Jian Lin, Brian E. Tucholke, and Y. John Chen, Crustal thickness anomalies in the North Atlantic Ocean basin from gravity analysis, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), Q0AE02, doi:10.1029/2010GC003402, 2011.
Required reading
Patricia M. Gregg, Jian Lin, Mark Behn, and Laurent G.J. Montesi, Spreading rate dependence of gravity anomalies along oceanic transform faults, Nature, 448, 183-187, 2007.
Required reading
Garrett Ito, Jian Lin and David Graham, Observational and theoretical studies of the dynamics of mantle plume-mid-ocean ridge interaction, Review of Geophysics, 41(4), 1017, doi:10.1029/2002RG000117, 2003.
Additional background material
Video of Presentation (various formats)
Gravity, Mid-ocean Ridges, and Hotspots
Jian Lin
Quicktime (Mac)