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2026

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56
Citations
18341
World Ranking
3566
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Chile Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Chile Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Chile Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Chile Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gino Casassa is affiliated with the University of Magallanes in Chile and has made significant contributions to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Casassa's work mainly focuses on cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, polar research and ecology, winter sports injuries and performance, as well as landslides and related hazards.

The scientist has published research in various journals, frequently appearing in the Journal of Glaciology, Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, Scientific Reports, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, and Earth System Science Data.

Among recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Black carbon footprint of human presence in Antarctica, 2022, Nature Communications
  • 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
  • 60 Years of Glacier Elevation and Mass Changes in the Maipo River Basin, Central Andes of Chile, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • A near 90-year record of the evolution of El Morado Glacier and its proglacial lake, Central Chilean Andes, 2020, Journal of Glaciology
  • Surface energy fluxes on Chilean glaciers: measurements and models, 2020, The Cryosphere

Casassa has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Jorge Carrasco, Raúl R. Cordero, Alessandro Damiani, Francisco Fernandoy, and Matthias Braun.

In recognition of their work, Casassa was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2005.

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

  • Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change

    Cynthia Rosenzweig;David Karoly;Marta Vicarelli;Peter Neofotis

  • Accelerated ice discharge from the Antarctic Peninsula following the collapse of Larsen B ice shelf

    E. Rignot;E. Rignot;G. Casassa;P. Gogineni;W. Krabill

  • Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century

    A. P. Ahlström;B. Anderson;M. Arenillas;S. Bajracharya

  • Contribution of the Patagonia Icefields of South America to Sea Level Rise

    Eric Rignot;Andrés Rivera;Andrés Rivera;Gino Casassa

  • Accelerated Sea-Level Rise from West Antarctica

    R. Thomas;E. Rignot;G. Casassa;P. Kanagaratnam

  • State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

    Paul Andrew Mayewski;M. P. Meredith;C. P. Summerhayes;J. Turner

  • The use of satellite and airborne imagery to inventory outlet glaciers of the Southern Patagonia Icefield, South America

    M Aniya;H Sato;R Naruse;P Skvarca

  • Constraining glacier elevation and mass changes in South America

    Matthias H. Braun;Philipp Malz;Christian Sommer;David Farías-Barahona

  • Ice elevation and areal changes of glaciers from the Northern Patagonia Icefield, Chile

    Andrés Rivera;Andrés Rivera;Toby Benham;Gino Casassa;Jonathan Bamber

  • Weather Observations Across the Southern Andes at 53°S

    Christoph Schneider;Michael Glaser;Rolf Kilian;Ariel Santana

  • Good practice guidance paper on detection and attribution related to anthropogenic climate change

    Gabriele C. Hegerl;Ove Hoegh-Guldberg;Gino Casassa;Martin Hoerling

  • Meteorological and Climatological Aspects of the Southern Patagonia Icefield

    Jorge F. Carrasco;Gino Casassa;Gino Casassa;Andrés Rivera;Andrés Rivera

  • Recent Glacier Variations in the Southern Patagonia Icefield, South America

    Masamu Aniya;Hiroaki Sato;Renji Naruse;Pedro Skvarca

  • On-land ice loss and glacial isostatic adjustment at the drake passage: 2003-2009

    Erik R. Ivins;Michael M. Watkins;Dah Ning Yuan;Reinhard Dietrich

  • Detection of changes in glacial run‐off in alpine basins: examples from North America, the Alps, central Asia and the Andes

    Gino Casassa;Paulina López;Paulina López;Bernard Pouyaud;Fernando Escobar

  • Use of remotely sensed and field data to estimate the contribution of Chilean glaciers to eustatic sea-level rise

    Andrés Rivera;Cesar Acuña;Gino Casassa;Francisca Bown

  • Evolution of glacial lakes from the Northern Patagonia Icefield and terrestrial water storage in a sea-level rise context

    Thomas Loriaux;Gino Casassa

  • Secular trend of the equilibrium-line altitude on the western side of the southern Andes, derived from radiosonde and surface observations

    Jorge F. Carrasco;Roberto Osorio;Gino Casassa

  • Changes of the 0°C isotherm and the equilibrium line altitude in central Chile during the last quarter of the 20th century : Glacier shrinkage in the Andes and consequences for water resources

    Jorge F. Carrasco;Gino Casassa;Juan Quintana

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera University of Chile
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
Margit Schwikowski
Margit Schwikowski Paul Scherrer Institute
William B. Krabill
William B. Krabill Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert H. Thomas
Robert H. Thomas Wallops Flight Facility
Erik R. Ivins
Erik R. Ivins California Institute of Technology
Paul Andrew Mayewski
Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine
Pedro Skvarca
Pedro Skvarca Argentine Antarctic Institute
Hans-Gerd Maas
Hans-Gerd Maas TU Dresden

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