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John W. Holt is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. They have also engaged in Ocean Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine to a lesser extent.

Their work primarily focuses on topics relating to planetary science and exploration, cryospheric studies and observations, astro and planetary science, climate change and permafrost, geology and paleoclimatology research, space science and extraterrestrial life, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Holt include M. S. Christoffersen, Martin Truffer, S. Nerozzi, B. S. Tober, and Christopher F. Larsen, indicating active research partnerships.

Holt has published extensively in notable scientific venues such as:

  • Icarus
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Holt cover a range of topics relevant to planetary and cryospheric sciences:

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • A Solid Interpretation of Bright Radar Reflectors Under the Mars South Polar Ice, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Holy Grail: A road map for unlocking the climate record stored within Mars' polar layered deposits, 2020, Planetary and Space Science
  • 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
  • Martian Mantle Heat Flow Estimate From the Lack of Lithospheric Flexure in the South Pole of Mars: Implications for Planetary Evolution and Basal Melting, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • Radar Sounding Evidence for Buried Glaciers in the Southern Mid-Latitudes of Mars

    John W. Holt;Ali Safaeinili;Jeffrey J. Plaut;James W. Head

  • Mars North Polar Deposits: Stratigraphy, Age, and Geodynamical Response

    Roger J. Phillips;Roger J. Phillips;Maria T. Zuber;Suzanne E. Smrekar;Michael T. Mellon

  • Radar evidence for ice in lobate debris aprons in the mid-northern latitudes of Mars

    Jeffrey J. Plaut;Ali Safaeinili;John W. Holt;Roger J. Phillips

  • Identification of the remains of King Richard III

    Turi E. King;Gloria Gonzalez Fortes;Patricia Balaresque;Mark G. Thomas

  • Basal conditions for Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, West Antarctica, determined using satellite and airborne data

    Ian Joughin;Slawek Tulaczyk;Jonathan L. Bamber;Don Blankenship

  • Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes.

    Colin M. Dundas;Ali M. Bramson;Lujendra Ojha;James J. Wray

  • Massive CO2 Ice Deposits Sequestered in the South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars

    Roger J. Phillips;Brian J. Davis;Kenneth L. Tanaka;Shane Byrne

  • New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier

    David G. Vaughan;Hugh F. J. Corr;Fausto Ferraccioli;Nicholas Frearson

  • A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

    Duncan A. Young;Andrew P. Wright;Jason L. Roberts;Jason L. Roberts;Roland C. Warner;Roland C. Warner

  • New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial topography of the Thwaites and Smith glacier catchments

    John W. Holt;Donald D. Blankenship;David L. Morse;Duncan A. Young

  • Radar-based subglacial lake classification in Antarctica

    Sasha P. Carter;Donald D. Blankenship;Matthew E. Peters;Duncan A. Young

  • Ice cover, landscape setting, and geological framework of Lake Vostok, East Antarctica

    Michael Studinger;Robin E. Bell;Garry D. Karner;Anahita A. Tikku

  • Along-Track Focusing of Airborne Radar Sounding Data From West Antarctica for Improving Basal Reflection Analysis and Layer Detection

    M.E. Peters;D.D. Blankenship;S.P. Carter;S.D. Kempf

  • Rapid, precise, and high‐sensitivity acquisition of paleomagnetic and rock‐magnetic data: Development of a low‐noise automatic sample changing system for superconducting rock magnetometers

    Joseph L. Kirschvink;Robert E. Kopp;Robert E. Kopp;Timothy D. Raub;Christopher T. Baumgartner

  • SHARAD detection and characterization of subsurface water ice deposits in Utopia Planitia, Mars

    C. M. Stuurman;C. M. Stuurman;G. R. Osinski;J. W. Holt;J. S. Levy

  • Ancient amino acids from fossil feathers in amber.

    Victoria E. McCoy;Victoria E. McCoy;Sarah E. Gabbott;Kirsty Penkman;Matthew J. Collins;Matthew J. Collins

  • Geocoded digital videography for validation of land cover mapping in the Amazon basin

    L. L. Hess;E. M.L.M. Novo;D. M. Slaymaker;John W Holt

  • Subsurface structure of Planum Boreum from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar soundings

    Nathaniel E. Putzig;Roger J. Phillips;Roger J. Phillips;Bruce A. Campbell;John W. Holt

  • The Scientific Legacy of NASA’s Operation IceBridge

    Joseph A. MacGregor;Linette N. Boisvert;Brooke Medley;Alek A. Petty;Alek A. Petty

  • Widespread excess ice in Arcadia Planitia, Mars

    Ali M. Bramson;Shane Byrne;Nathaniel E. Putzig;Sarah Sutton

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger J. Phillips
Roger J. Phillips Washington University in St. Louis
Donald D. Blankenship
Donald D. Blankenship The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey J. Plaut
Jeffrey J. Plaut Jet Propulsion Lab
Shane Byrne
Shane Byrne University of Arizona
Roberto Orosei
Roberto Orosei National Institute for Astrophysics
Bruce A. Campbell
Bruce A. Campbell Smithsonian Institution
Fausto Ferraccioli
Fausto Ferraccioli National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics
Eric Rignot
Eric Rignot University of California, Irvine
James W. Head
James W. Head Brown University
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division

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