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Overview

Martin Truffer is affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Global and Planetary Change, and Geophysics. Their work covers a range of topics including cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, landslides and related hazards, winter sports injuries and performance, geology and paleoclimatology research, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Truffer has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • The Cryosphere
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers featuring or connected to Truffer's work cover significant topics in glaciology and climate science:

  • "The Scientific Legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge," 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Brief communication: A roadmap towards credible projections of ice sheet contribution to sea level," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Two decades of dynamic change and progressive destabilization on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf," 2021, The Cryosphere
  • "Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica," 2022, The Cryosphere
  • "Greenland Mass Trends From Airborne and Satellite Altimetry During 2011-2020," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • T. A. Scambos
  • Erin C. Pettit
  • Karen E. Alley
  • Christian T. Wild
  • Atsuhiro Muto

Truffer's research integrates data from diverse sources and explores processes affecting the cryosphere, especially related to ice sheet dynamics, permafrost, and climate interactions. The range of coauthors and diverse publication venues reflect an interdisciplinary approach to environmental and planetary scientific questions.

Best Publications

  • Ice mélange dynamics and implications for terminus stability, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland

    J. M. Amundson;M. Fahnestock;M. Truffer;J. Brown

  • Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to sea level over the next millennium

    Andy Aschwanden;Mark A. Fahnestock;Martin Truffer;Douglas J. Brinkerhoff

  • A method to estimate the ice volume and ice-thickness distribution of alpine glaciers

    Daniel Farinotti;Matthias Huss;Andreas Bauder;Martin Funk

  • Continued evolution of Jakobshavn Isbrae following its rapid speedup

    Ian Joughin;Ian M. Howat;Mark Fahnestock;Ben Smith

  • Submarine melting of the 1985 Jakobshavn Isbræ floating tongue and the triggering of the current retreat

    Roman J. Motyka;Martin Truffer;Mark Fahnestock;John Mortensen

  • Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland

    Ian Joughin;Ian Howat;Richard B. Alley;Goran Ekstrom

  • Seasonal to decadal scale variations in the surface velocity of Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland: Observation and model-based analysis

    Ian Joughin;Ben E. Smith;Ian M. Howat;Dana Floricioiu

  • Mechanisms of fast flow in Jakobshavn Isbræ, West Greenland. Part III. Measurements of ice deformation, temperature and cross-borehole conductivity in boreholes to the bedrock

    Martin Lüthi;Martin Funk;Almut Iken;Shivaprasad Gogineni

  • Where glaciers meet water: Subaqueous melt and its relevance to glaciers in various settings

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  • 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

  • Glacier motion dominated by processes deep in underlying till

    M. Truffer;W. D. Harrison;K. A. Echelmeyer

  • Glacier, fjord, and seismic response to recent large calving events, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland

    Jason M. Amundson;M. Truffer;M. P. Luthi;M. Fahnestock

  • Sub-ice-shelf sediments record history of twentieth-century retreat of Pine Island Glacier

    J. A. Smith;T. J. Andersen;M. Shortt;A. M. Gaffney

  • Complex Greenland outlet glacier flow captured

    Andy Aschwanden;Mark A. Fahnestock;Martin Truffer

  • Channelized Ice Melting in the Ocean Boundary Layer Beneath Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

    T. P. Stanton;W. J. Shaw;M. Truffer;H. F. J. Corr

  • Seasonal and interannual variations in ice melange and its impact on terminus stability, Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland

    Ryan Cassotto;Mark Fahnestock;Jason M. Amundson;Martin Truffer

  • On the seasonal freshwater stratification in the proximity of fast-flowing tidewater outlet glaciers in a sub-Arctic sill fjord

    J. Mortensen;J. Bendtsen;R. J. Motyka;K. Lennert

  • Of isbræ and ice streams

    Martin Truffer;Keith A. Echelmeyer

  • Flotation and retreat of a lake-calving terminus, Mendenhall Glacier, southeast Alaska, USA

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  • 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

  • Implications of till deformation on glacier dynamics

    Martin Truffer;Keith A. Echelmeyer;William D. Harrison

  • Contribution of the Greenland Ice Sheet to Sea-Level over the Next Millennium

    A. Aschwanden;M. A. Fahnestock;M. Truffer;D. J. Brinkerhoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Regine Hock
Regine Hock University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ted A. Scambos
Ted A. Scambos University of Colorado Boulder
Ian M. Howat
Ian M. Howat The Ohio State University
Shad O'Neel
Shad O'Neel United States Geological Survey
Mark Fahnestock
Mark Fahnestock University of Alaska Fairbanks
Eugene W. Domack
Eugene W. Domack University of South Florida
Andy Aschwanden
Andy Aschwanden University of Alaska Fairbanks
Martin P. Lüthi
Martin P. Lüthi University of Zurich
William D. Harrison
William D. Harrison University of Alaska Fairbanks
Ian Joughin
Ian Joughin University of Washington

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