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Overview

Ginny A. Catania is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial number of publications in Atmospheric Science and related subfields. Additionally, they have contributed to Medicine, notably in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's main topics of study include cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, and winter sports injuries and performance. Their work also encompasses Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, polar research and ecology, as well as underwater acoustics research.

Frequent coauthors in their research include F. Denis, T. C. Bartholomaus, Mathieu Morlighem, Brice Noël, and Dominik Fahrner.

Prominent publication venues where their work has appeared are:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • PLOS Climate
  • Earth system science data

Among their recent papers are:

  • Steep Glacier Bed Knickpoints Mitigate Inland Thinning in Greenland, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • TermPicks: a century of Greenland glacier terminus data for use in scientific and machine learning applications, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • 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
  • A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • Ambiguous stability of glaciers at bed peaks, 2022, Journal of Glaciology

Best Publications

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

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

  • BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation.

    M. Morlighem;C. N. Williams;C. N. Williams;E. Rignot;E. Rignot;L. An

  • Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Lauren C. Andrews;Ginny A. Catania;Matthew J. Hoffman;Jason D. Gulley

  • Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Mark A. Fahnestock;Ginny A. Catania;John D. Paden

  • Links between acceleration, melting, and supraglacial lake drainage of the western Greenland Ice Sheet

    M. J. Hoffman;M. J. Hoffman;M. J. Hoffman;G. A. Catania;T. A. Neumann;L. C. Andrews

  • Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream.

    Sridhar Anandakrishnan;Ginny A. Catania;Richard B. Alley;Huw J. Horgan

  • Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland's Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing

    Fiammetta Straneo;Patrick Heimbach;Olga Sergienko;Gordon Hamilton

  • A synthesis of the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Joseph A. MacGregor;Mark A. Fahnestock;Ginny A. Catania;Andy Aschwanden

  • Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice stream

    H. Conway;Ginny A Catania;C. F. Raymond;A. M. Gades

  • Distributed subglacial discharge drives significant submarine melt at a Greenland tidewater glacier

    Mason J. Fried;Ginny A. Catania;Timothy C. Bartholomaus;D. Duncan

  • Widespread rifting and retreat of ice-shelf margins in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment between 1972 and 2011

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Ginny A. Catania;Michael S. Markowski;Alan G. Andrews

  • Persistent englacial drainage features in the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Ginny A Catania;T. A. Neumann

  • Geometric Controls on Tidewater Glacier Retreat in Central Western Greenland

    G. A. Catania;L. A. Stearns;D. A. Sutherland;M. J. Fried

  • Modeling Turbulent Subglacial Meltwater Plumes: Implications for Fjord-Scale Buoyancy-Driven Circulation

    Dustin Carroll;David A. Sutherland;Emily L. Shroyer;Jonathan D. Nash

  • The impact of glacier geometry on meltwater plume structure and submarine melt in Greenland fjords

    D. Carroll;D. A. Sutherland;B. Hudson;Twila A Moon;Twila A Moon

  • Characterizing englacial drainage in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

    Ginny A. Catania;Thomas A. Neumann;Stephen F. Price

  • Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly connected regions of the bed.

    Matthew J. Hoffman;Lauren C. Andrews;Stephen F. Price;Ginny A. Catania

  • Radar attenuation and temperature within the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Jilu Li;John D. Paden;Ginny A. Catania

  • High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    Oliver J. Marsh;Oliver J. Marsh;Helen A. Fricker;Matthew R. Siegfried;Knut Christianson

  • Variability in the mass flux of the Ross ice streams, West Antarctica, over the last millennium

    Ginny Catania;Christina L. Hulbe;Howard Conway;Ted A. Scambos

  • Future Evolution of Greenland's Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers

    G. A. Catania;L. A. Stearns;T. A. Moon;T. A. Moon;E. M. Enderlin

  • Continued deceleration of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica

    Ian Joughin;R. A. Bindschadler;Matt A. King;Donald E. Voigt

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Sutherland
David A. Sutherland University of Oregon
Thomas A. Neumann
Thomas A. Neumann Goddard Space Flight Center
Jonathan D. Nash
Jonathan D. Nash Oregon State University
Matthew J. Hoffman
Matthew J. Hoffman Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin P. Lüthi
Martin P. Lüthi University of Zurich
Mathieu Morlighem
Mathieu Morlighem Dartmouth College
Howard Conway
Howard Conway University of Washington
Stephen F. Price
Stephen F. Price Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Paden
John Paden University of Kansas
Charles F. Raymond
Charles F. Raymond University of Washington

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