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74
Citations
31233
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
76

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2007 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

David G. Vaughan was affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom and contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science within that field. Their research also intersected with Medicine, specifically Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covered several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. A broad range of main research topics characterized their output, notably Cryospheric studies and observations, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Polar Research and Ecology. Additional topics included Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Landslides and related hazards, and Climate change and permafrost.

David G. Vaughan published in various scientific venues, frequently contributing to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, Earth system science data, and The Cryosphere. The range of venues reflects the interdisciplinary and applied nature of their research.

Some of their notable recent papers include:

  • Invasive non-native species likely to threaten biodiversity and ecosystems in the Antarctic Peninsula region, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Heterogeneous melting near the Thwaites Glacier grounding line, 2023, Nature
  • Multisystem Synthesis of Radar Sounding Observations of the Amundsen Sea Sector From the 2004-2005 Field Season, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Age-Depth Stratigraphy of Pine Island Glacier Inferred From Airborne Radar and Ice-Core Chronology, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data, 2023, Earth system science data

Frequent collaborators included Julien A. Bodart, Robert G. Bingham, Enrica Quartini, D. A. Young, and Donald D. Blankenship, indicating a cooperative research environment within the fields of glaciology and polar studies.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

    Andrew Shepherd;Erik R. Ivins;A. Geruo;Valentina R. Barletta

  • Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

    H. D. Pritchard;S. R. M. Ligtenberg;H. A. Fricker;D. G. Vaughan

  • Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

    David G. Vaughan;Gareth J. Marshall;William M. Connolley;Claire Parkinson

  • Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

    Hamish D. Pritchard;Robert J. Arthern;David G. Vaughan;Laura A. Edwards

  • Retreating glacier fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past half-century.

    A. J. Cook;A. J. Cook;A. J. Fox;A. J. Fox;D. G. Vaughan;D. G. Vaughan;J. G. Ferrigno;J. G. Ferrigno

  • BEDMAP: a new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica

    Matthew B. Lythe;David G. Vaughan

  • Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic)

    O. Anisimov;David G. Vaughan;T.V. Callaghan;C. Fural

  • Recent atmospheric warming and retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula

    D. G. Vaughan;C. S. M. Doake

  • Reassessment of net surface mass balance in Antarctica

    David G. Vaughan;Jonathan L. Bamber;Mario Giovinetto;Jonathan Russell

  • Ocean forcing of glacier retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula

    A. J. Cook;A. J. Cook;P. R. Holland;M. P. Meredith;Tavi Murray

  • Overview of areal changes of the ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula over the past 50 years

    Alison J. Cook;David G. Vaughan

  • Ground‐based measurements of spatial and temporal variability of snow accumulation in East Antarctica

    Olaf Eisen;Olaf Eisen;Massimo Frezzotti;Christophe Genthon;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Widespread complex flow in the interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Jonathan L. Bamber;David G. Vaughan;Ian Joughin

  • Antarctic snow accumulation mapped using polarization of 4.3-cm wavelength microwave emission

    Robert J. Arthern;Dale P. Winebrenner;David G. Vaughan

  • RAPID DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORDIE ICE SHELF IN RESPONSE TO ATMOSPHERIC WARMING

    C. S. M. Doake;D. G. Vaughan

  • Devil in the Detail

    David G. Vaughan;Gareth J. Marshall;William M. Connolley;John C. King

  • Widespread Acceleration of Tidewater Glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula

    Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan

  • Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise from a new-generation ice-sheet model

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Olivier Gagliardini;Olivier Gagliardini;Hakime Seddik;Maëlle Nodet

  • In situ measurements of Antarctic snow compaction compared with predictions of models

    Robert J. Arthern;David G. Vaughan;Andrew M. Rankin;Robert Mulvaney

Frequent Co-Authors

Alastair G C Graham
Alastair G C Graham University of South Florida
Hugh F. J. Corr
Hugh F. J. Corr British Antarctic Survey
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith British Antarctic Survey
Robert D Larter
Robert D Larter British Antarctic Survey
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand
Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand British Antarctic Survey
Steven Grahame Moreton
Steven Grahame Moreton Natural Environment Research Council
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Karsten Gohl
Karsten Gohl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Adrian Jenkins
Adrian Jenkins Durham University

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