Publications
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Bridget Ovall, Rebecca H Jackson, Ginny A Catania, Elias J Hunter, Duncan C Wheeler, Michael Jakuba, and TERMINUS Expedition Team. “Linking plume dynamics to terminus morphology at a tidewater glacier with hybrid ROV surveys”. In: ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting. 2026.
Ginny A. Catania, Rebecca H. Jackson, Michael Jakuba, Dan Duncan, Greg Abram, and TERMINUS Team. “Submarine exploration of an active grounding line in Greenland with a hybrid ROV”. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2025. American Geophysical Union. 2025.
Rachael Durr, John M. Jaeger, William Kenney, Dan Duncan, Marcy B. Davis, Jonathan Amendola, Dallas Sherman, Sean P. S. Gulick, John Goff, Emily An, Emily Eidam, and TERMINUS Expedition Team. “Relating Terminus Stability with Proglacial Sedimentation in Two Western Greenlandic Fjords”. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2025. American Geophysical Union. 2025.
Christopher R. German, Jeffrey Seewald, and The NUI/ALOIS Science & Engineering Team. “Abiotic synthesis and hydrothermal circulation: is there more to life than H2-rich venting?” In: AGU Fall Meeting 2025. American Geophysical Union. 2025.
John Goff, Dallas Sherman, Jonathan Amendola, Sean P. S. Gulick, and TERMINUS Expedition Team. “Dynamic sedimentary processes of morainal bank construction revealed in near-terminus, hybrid ROV-mounted chirp data, Kangerlussuup Sermia Glacier, Greenland”. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2025. American Geophysical Union. 2025.
Rebecca H. Jackson, Bridget Ovall, Ginny A. Catania, Elias J. Hunter, Duncan C. Wheeler, Michael Jakuba, Emily Eidam, and TERMINUS Team. “Near-terminus Surveys with a Hybrid ROV Reveal Multilayered Circulation and Strong Inflow at the Grounding Line of a Greenland Glacier”. In: AGU Fall Meeting 2025. Abstract P34A-05. American Geophysical Union. 2025.
Michael V. Jakuba, Molly E. Curran, Victor J. Naklicki, Allisa J. Dalpe, Matthew E. Silvia, Rosemary A. Loer, Kevin Nikolaus, and the Science Team of CE24009. “Exploring the KAS Glacier in Western Greenland with the NUI Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle”. In: IEEE Oceans - Great Lakes. IEEE. 2025, pp. 1–8.
Tea Isler, Michael Jakuba, Tom Kwasnitschka, Autun Purser, Andrew Klesh, Vera Schlindwein, and Christopher R German. “High-resolution bathymetry coupled with 3D models of hydrothermal vents from opportunistically-acquired imagery: Aurora vent field, Arctic Ocean”. In: Journal of Maps 20.1 (2024), p. 2404878.
Michael V. Jakuba, Molly Curran, Victor Naklicki, Tea Isler, Andrew Klesh, H. Jakob Buenger, Allisa Dalpe, Laura Lindzey, Matthew Silvia, Rosemary Loer, Christopher German, and the PS137 Engineering & Science Team. “Exploring the Aurora Vent Field: 4000 m Under Ice with the NUI Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle”. In: IEEE AUV. Boston MA, 2024, 6 pp. 1
Amy Phung, Gideon Billings, Andrea F Daniele, Matthew R Walter, and Richard Camilli. “A Shared Autonomy System for Precise and Efficient Remote Underwater Manipulation”. In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2024).
Amy Phung, Gideon Billings, Andrea F Daniele, Matthew R Walter, and Richard Camilli. “Enhancing scientific exploration of the deep sea through shared autonomy in remote manipulation”. In: Science Robotics 8.81 (2023), eadi5227.
Laura Lindzey, Isaac Vandor, Toby Schneider, Eric Gallimore, Carl Kaiser, and Michael Jakuba. “CoExploration for Adaptive AUV Survey”. In: 2022 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Symposium (AUV). IEEE. 2022, pp. 1–8.
Gideon Billings, Matthew Walter, Oscar Pizarro, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, and Richard Camilli. “Towards automated sample collection and return in extreme underwater environments”. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.15127 (2021).
Teresa Morganti, Autun Purser, Hans Tore Rapp, Christopher German, Michael V. Jakuba, Laura Hehemann, Jonas Blendl, Beate Slaby, and Antje Boetius. “In situ observation of sponge trails indicate common sponge locomotion in the deep central Arctic”. In: Current Biology 31.8 (2021), R368–R370.
Michael V Jakuba, Christopher R German, Andrew D Bowen, Louis L Whitcomb, Kevin Hand, Andrew Branch, Steve Chien, and Christopher McFarland. “Teleoperation and robotics under ice: Implications for planetary exploration”. In: 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference. IEEE. 2018.
Christian Katlein, Stefanie Arndt, Marcel Nicolaus, Donald K. Perovich, Michael V. Jakuba, Stefano Suman, Stephen Elliott andLouis L. Whitcomb, Christopher J. McFarland, Rudiger Gerdes, Antje Boetius, and Christopher R. German. “Influence of ice thickness and surface properties on light transmission through Arctic sea ice”. In: J. Geophys. Res. Oceans 120 (2015). doi:10.1002/2015JC010914, pp. 1–13.
Christopher McFarland, Michael Jakuba, Stefano Suman, James Kinsey, and Louis Whitcomb. “Toward Ice-Relative Navigation of Underwater Robotic Vehicles Under Moving Sea-Ice: Experimental Evaluation in the Arctic Sea”. In: Seattle, WA, 2015, 6 pp.
Mar Fernández-Méndez, Samuel Laney, Christian Katlein, Louis L. Whitcomb, Stephen Elliot and Michael V. Jakuba, Antje Boetius, Christopher German. Monitoring under ice phyto- and zooplankton blooms with the Nereid Under Ice remotely operated vehicle. In Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science (poster), Italy, March 2015.
Christian Katlein, Stefanie Arndt, Mar Fernandez Mendez, Benjamin Lange, Marcel Nicolaus, Frank Wenzhofer, Mike Jakuba, and Chris German. Investigating changes in the climate-and ecosystem of Arctic sea ice using remotely operated vehicles. In ECC 2014, 2014. hdl:1003/epic.44171.
C.R. German, A. Boetius, L. Whitcomb, M. Jakuba, J. Bailey, C. Judge , C. McFarland, S. Suman, S. Elliott, C. Katlein, S. Arndt, A. Bowen, D. Yoerger, J. Kinsey, L. Mayer, M. Nicolaus, S. Laney, H. Singh, T. Maksym & the PS 86 Scientific Research Team (2014). First scientific dives of the Nereid Under Ice hybrid ROV in the Arctic Ocean. EOS Trans AGU (abstr).
L.L. Whitcomb, M.V. Jakuba, C.R. German, A.D. Bowen, D.R. Yoerger, J.C. Kinsey, L. Mayer, C. McFarland, S. Suman, J. Bailey, C. Judge, S. Elliott, D. Gomez-Ibanez, C.L. Taylor, C. Machado, J.C. Howland, C. Kaiser, M. Heintz, C. Pontbriand, L. O’Hara, G. McDonald, A. Boetius (2014). Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice. EOS Trans AGU (abstr).
A. D. Bowen, D. R. Yoerger, C. C. Germand, J. C. Kinsey, M. V. Jakuba, D. Gomez-Ibanez, C. L. Taylor, C. Machado, J. C. Howland, C. L. Kaiser, M. Heintz, C. Pontbriand, S. Suman, L. O’hara, L. L. Whitcomb, C.J. McFarland, and L. Mayer. Design and preliminary engineering trials of Nereid-UI: A remotely operated underwater vehicle for oceanographic access under ice. In Proceedings IEEE/MTS Oceans Conference and Exhibition, St. Johns, Canada, Sept. 2014.
A. Bowen, M. Jakuba, D. Yoerger, L. L. Whitcomb, J. C. Kinsey, L. Mayer, and C. R. German. Nereid UI: A light-tethered remotely operated vehicle for under-ice telepresence. In Proceedings Arctic Technology Conference, Houston Tx, Dec. 2012. (Reprint available on request.)
A. Bowen, M. Jakuba, D. Yoerger, C. German, J. Kinsey, L. Whitcomb, and L. Mayer. Lightly tethered unmanned underwater vehicle for under-ice exploration. In IEEE Aerospace Conference, page 12 pp., Big Sky, MT, Mar. 2012.
M. Jakuba, L. Whitcomb, D. Yoerger, and A. Bowen. Toward under-ice operations with hybrid underwater robotic vehicles. In Proceedings IEEE/OES Conference on Polar AUVs (AUV2008), Woods Hole, MA, USA, Oct. 2008.