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Overview

Howard Conway is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work focuses on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Ecology.

The main topics of Conway's research cover cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, and polar research and ecology.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • An 83 000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica (2020, Climate of the past)
  • 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)
  • Reconstruction of Temperature, Accumulation Rate, and Layer Thinning From an Ice Core at South Pole, Using a Statistical Inverse Method (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Advection and non-climate impacts on the South Pole Ice Core (2020, Climate of the past)
  • Holocene thinning of Darwin and Hatherton glaciers, Antarctica, and implications for grounding-line retreat in the Ross Sea (2021, The Cryosphere)

Howard Conway has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Michelle Koutnik, Knut Christianson, T. J. Fudge, Benjamin Hills, and Andrew O. Hoffman.

Their research is published across various venues with multiple contributions to the Journal of Glaciology, Climate of the Past, Earth System Science Data, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Scientific Data.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Past and future grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

    H. Conway;B. L. Hall;B. L. Hall;G. H. Denton;A. M. Gades

  • Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

    Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

  • Onset of deglacial warming in West Antarctica driven by local orbital forcing

    T.J. Fudge;Eric J. Steig;Bradley R. Markle;Spruce W. Schoenemann

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Albedo of dirty snow during conditions of melt

    H. Conway;A. Gades;C. F. Raymond

  • Ross Sea paleo-ice sheet drainage and deglacial history during and since the LGM

    John B. Anderson;Howard Conway;Philip J. Bart;Alexandra E. Witus

  • Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution

    Kenichi Matsuoka;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Geir Moholdt;Michael J. Bentley

  • Entrainment at cold glacier beds

    Kurt Cuffey;Howard Conway;A Gades;Bernard Hallet

  • Bed properties of Siple Dome and adjacent ice streams, West Antarctica, inferred from radio-echo sounding measurements

    A. M. Gades;C. F. Raymond;H. Conway;R. W. Jagobel

  • Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice stream

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

  • Modeling Englacial Radar Attenuation at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, Using Ice Chemistry and Temperature Data

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Dale P. Winebrenner;Howard Conway;Kenichi Matsuoka

  • Constraining the recent mass balance of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica, with airborne observations of snow accumulation

    B. Medley;I. Joughin;B. E. Smith;S. B. Das

  • Snow stability during rain

    H. Conway;C. F. Raymond

  • Variable relationship between accumulation and temperature in West Antarctica for the past 31,000 years

    T. J. Fudge;Bradley R. Markle;Kurt M. Cuffey;Christo Buizert

  • Interfacial water in polar glaciers and glacier sliding at -17°C

    K. M. Cuffey;H. Conway;B. Hallet;A. M. Gades

  • Using surface velocities to calculate ice thickness and bed topography: a case study at Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA

    R.W. McNabb;R. Hock;Shad O'Neel;Lowell A. Rasmussen

  • Airborne‐radar and ice‐core observations of annual snow accumulation over Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica confirm the spatiotemporal variability of global and regional atmospheric models

    B. Medley;I. Joughin;S. B. Das;E. J. Steig

  • 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

  • Snow Stability Index

    H. Conway;J. Abrahamson

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Edwin D. Waddington
Edwin D. Waddington University of Washington
Charles F. Raymond
Charles F. Raymond University of Washington
Edward J. Brook
Edward J. Brook Oregon State University
Ginny A. Catania
Ginny A. Catania The University of Texas at Austin
Nancy A. N. Bertler
Nancy A. N. Bertler Victoria University of Wellington
Kurt M. Cuffey
Kurt M. Cuffey University of California, Berkeley
Brenda L. Hall
Brenda L. Hall University of Maine
Kendrick C. Taylor
Kendrick C. Taylor Desert Research Institute
Christo Buizert
Christo Buizert Oregon State University

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