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Robert M. DeConto is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. They have contributed significantly to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Oceanography, and Ecology.

DeConto's work covers a range of topics, with notable focus on cryospheric studies and observations, geology and paleoclimatology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate variability and models, winter sports injuries and performance, polar research and ecology, and landslides and related hazards.

Frequent collaborators in DeConto's research include:

  • David Pollard
  • Robert E. Kopp
  • Edward Gasson
  • Laura De Santis
  • Florence Colleoni

DeConto has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Science Advances
  • Science
  • Geology
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth's Future

Among DeConto's recent papers are:

  • The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica (2021, Nature)
  • Projecting Antarctica's contribution to future sea level rise from basal ice shelf melt using linear response functions of 16 ice sheet models (LARMIP-2) (2020, Earth System Dynamics)
  • Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Understanding of Contemporary Regional Sea-Level Change and the Implications for the Future (2020, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2 (2023, Science)

Best Publications

  • Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard

  • Rapid Cenozoic glaciation of Antarctica induced by declining atmospheric CO2.

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard

  • Modelling West Antarctic ice sheet growth and collapse through the past five million years

    David Pollard;Robert M. DeConto

  • Sea-level rise due to polar ice-sheet mass loss during past warm periods

    Andrea Dutton;A E Carlson;Antony J Long;Glenn A Milne

  • Global cooling during the eocene-oligocene climate transition.

    Zhonghui Liu;Zhonghui Liu;Mark Pagani;David Zinniker;Robert DeConto

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Alternative global Cretaceous paleogeography

    William W. Hay;Robert M. DeConto;Christopher N. Wold;Kevin M. Wilson

  • Sea Level Rise and Implications for Low Lying Islands, Coasts and Communities

    Michael Oppenheimer;Bruce Glavovic;Jochen Hinkel;Roderik van de Wal

  • Potential Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by hydrofracturing and ice cliff failure

    David Pollard;Robert M. DeConto;Richard B. Alley

  • 2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia

    Martin Melles;Julie Brigham-Grette;Pavel S. Minyuk;Norbert R. Nowaczyk

  • The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard;Richard B. Alley;Isabella Velicogna

  • Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation

    Robert M. DeConto;David Pollard;Paul A. Wilson;Heiko Pälike

  • A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2

    Yi Ge Zhang;Mark Pagani;Zhonghui Liu;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost

    Robert M. DeConto;Simone Galeotti;Mark Pagani;David Tracy

  • The role of carbon dioxide during the onset of Antarctic glaciation

    Mark Pagani;Matthew Huber;Zhonghui Liu;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Description of a hybrid ice sheet-shelf model, and application to Antarctica

    D. Pollard;R. M. DeConto

  • Pliocene Warmth, Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling Recorded in NE Arctic Russia

    Julie Brigham-Grette;Martin Melles;Pavel Minyuk;Andrei Andreev

  • Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling.

    Robert McKay;Tim Naish;Lionel Carter;Christina Riesselman

  • Evolving Understanding of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Physics and Ambiguity in Probabilistic Sea-Level Projections

    Robert E. Kopp;Robert M. DeConto;Daniel A. Bader;Carling C. Hay;Carling C. Hay;Carling C. Hay

Frequent Co-Authors

David Pollard
David Pollard Pennsylvania State University
Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
Martin Melles
Martin Melles University of Cologne
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Volker Wennrich
Volker Wennrich University of Cologne
Richard H. Levy
Richard H. Levy GNS Science
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Mark Pagani
Mark Pagani Yale University

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