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National Ranking
873

Overview

Bernd Kulessa is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant work also in Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their studies span several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geophysics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Geology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics notably involving cryospheric studies and observations, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, winter sports injuries and performance, seismic waves and analysis, geological studies and exploration, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Recent publications by Bernd Kulessa include:

  • "Sedimentary basins reduce stability of Antarctic ice streams through groundwater feedbacks," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "Comparing satellite and helicopter-based methods for observing crevasses, application in East Antarctica," 2020, Cold Regions Science and Technology
  • "Antarctic Sedimentary Basins and Their Influence on Ice-Sheet Dynamics," 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Seismic characterization of a rapidly-rising jökulhlaup cycle at the A.P. Olsen Ice Cap, NE-Greenland," 2020, Journal of Glaciology
  • "Seismic observations of a complex firn structure across the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica," 2021, Journal of Glaciology

Bernd Kulessa frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Dustin M. Schroeder, Alan Aitken, Sarah Thompson, Lu Li, and Tom A. Jordan.

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with the most frequent including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Glaciology, The Cryosphere, Annals of Glaciology, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Best Publications

  • Imaging and characterisation of subsurface solute transport using electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) and equivalent transport models

    Andreas Kemna;Jan Vanderborght;Bernd Kulessa;Harry Vereecken

  • Seawater softening of suture zones inhibits fracture propagation in Antarctic ice shelves.

    Bernd Kulessa;Bernd Kulessa;Adam D. Booth;Martin O’Leary;Daniel McGrath

  • Understanding biogeobatteries: Where geophysics meets microbiology

    A. Revil;A. Revil;C. A. Mendonça;E. A. Atekwana;B. Kulessa

  • Surface melt and ponding on Larsen C Ice Shelf and the impact of föhn winds

    Adrian J. Luckman;Andrew Elvidge;Daniela Jansen;Bernd Kulessa

  • Ice tectonic deformation during the rapid in situ drainage of a supraglacial lake on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Sam H Doyle;Alun H Hubbard;Christine F Dow;Glenn A Jones;Glenn A Jones

  • Intense Winter Surface Melt on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

    P. Kuipers Munneke;A. J. Luckman;S. L. Bevan;C. J. P. P. Smeets

  • Basal crevasses in Larsen C Ice Shelf and implications for their global abundance

    A Luckman;D Jansen;Bernd Kulessa;E. C King

  • Marine ice regulates the future stability of a large Antarctic ice shelf

    Bernd Kulessa;Daniela Jansen;Daniela Jansen;Adrian J. Luckman;Edward C. King

  • Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    N.F. Glasser;B. Kulessa;A. Luckman;D. Jansen

  • Massive subsurface ice formed by refreezing of ice-shelf melt ponds

    Bryn Hubbard;Adrian Luckman;David W. Ashmore;Suzanne Bevan

  • Resistivity and self-potential tomography applied to groundwater remediation and contaminant plumes: Sandbox and field experiments

    Deqiang Mao;Andre Revil;Andre Revil;Ryan D. Hort;Junko Munakata-Marr

  • Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage

    Christine F. Dow;Christine F. Dow;B. Kulessa;I.C. Rutt;V. C. Tsai

  • Thin-layer effects in glaciological seismic amplitude-versus-angle (AVA) analysis: implications for characterising a subglacial till unit, Russell Glacier, West Greenland

    A. D. Booth;A. D. Booth;R.A. Clark;B. Kulessa;T. Murray

  • Seismoelectric coupling in unsaturated porous media: theory, petrophysics, and saturation front localization using an electroacoustic approach

    A Revil;G Barnier;M Karaoulis;P Sava

  • Seismic evidence of mechanically weak sediments underlying Russell Glacier, West Greenland

    C. F. Dow;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;A. D. Booth;Samuel Huckerby Doyle

  • Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    D. Jansen;B. Kulessa;P.R. Sammonds;A. Luckman

  • Cross-coupled flow modeling of coincident streaming and electrochemical potentials and application to subglacial self-potential data

    Bernd Kulessa;Bernd Kulessa;Bryn Hubbard;Giles H. Brown;Giles H. Brown

  • Ocean tides in the Weddell Sea: new observations on the Filchner-Ronne and Larsen C ice shelves and model validation

    Matt A. King;Laurie Padman;Keith Nicholls;Peter J. Clarke

  • Upper bounds on subglacial channel development for interior regions of the Greenland ice sheet

    C. F. Dow;B. Kulessa;I. C. Rutt;Samuel Huckerby Doyle

  • Seismic evidence for complex sedimentary control of Greenland Ice Sheet flow

    Bernd Kulessa;Alun Hubbard;Adam D. Booth;Marion Bougamont

  • Antarctic subglacial groundwater: a concept paper on its measurement and potential influence on ice flow

    Martin J. Siegert;Bernd Kulessa;Marion Bougamont;Poul Christoffersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Bryn Hubbard
Bryn Hubbard Aberystwyth University
Paul R. Holland
Paul R. Holland British Antarctic Survey
Edward C. King
Edward C. King British Antarctic Survey
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Peter Kuipers Munneke
Peter Kuipers Munneke Utrecht University
Tavi Murray
Tavi Murray Swansea University
André Revil
André Revil Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Peter Sammonds
Peter Sammonds University College London
Daniel McGrath
Daniel McGrath Colorado State University

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