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Overview

Ross D. Powell is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Automotive Engineering, Geography, Planning and Development, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to earth sciences and cognitive processes. Key research areas include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy
  • Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Ross D. Powell has contributed to a number of publications in varied venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Did Holocene climate changes drive West Antarctic grounding line retreat and readvance?, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Spatial skill predicts success on sequence stratigraphic interpretation, 2022, Geosphere
  • SPATIAL THINKING AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: WHAT ROLE DOES SPATIAL THINKING PLAY IN GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATIONS?, 2020, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • MODERN SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES AND DEPOSITS AT THE KRONEBREEN-KONGSVEGEN TIDEWATER GLACIER FRONT, KONGSFJORDEN, SVALBARD, NORWAY, 2021, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Their frequent collaborators include Richard Levy, Tina van de Flierdt, Laura De Santis, Aisling M. Dolan, and Carlota Escutia. These coauthors have contributed multiple joint works, suggesting ongoing research partnerships.

Among the common venues where Ross D. Powell publishes are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geosphere

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

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

  • Glacimarine processes at grounding-line fans and their growth to ice-contact deltas

    Ross D. Powell

  • Glacimarine processes and inductive lithofacies modelling of ice shelf and tidewater glacier sediments based on quaternary examples

    Ross D Powell

  • Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic ice sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary

    Tim R. Naish;Ken J. Woolfe;Peter J. Barrett;Gary S. Wilson

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

    Robert McKay;Tim Naish;Lionel Carter;Christina Riesselman

  • A Model for Sedimentation by Tidewater Glaciers

    Ross D. Powell

  • Glacimarine sedimentary processes, facies and morphology of the south-southeast Alaska shelf and fjords

    Ross D. Powell;Bruce F. Molnia

  • Interlaminated ice-proximal glacimarine sediments in Muir Inlet, Alaska

    Nancy E Mackiewicz;Ross D Powell;Paul R Carlson;Bruce F Molnia

  • Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene

    J. Kingslake;R. P. Scherer;T. Albrecht;J. Coenen

  • In situ observations of floc settling velocities in Glacier Bay, Alaska

    Paul S. Hill;James P. Syvitski;Ellen A. Cowan;Ross D. Powell

  • A glacial sequence stratigraphic model for temperate, glaciated continental shelves

    Ross D. Powell;James M. Cooper

  • The stratigraphic signature of the late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment

    Robert McKay;Greg Browne;Lionel Carter;Ellen Cowan

  • WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica: scientific operations and initial observations

    Slawek Tulaczyk;Jill A. Mikucki;Matthew R. Siegfried;John C. Priscu

  • Grounding-line systems as second-order controls on fluctuations of tidewater termini of temperate glaciers

    Ross D. Powell

  • Modern glaciomarine environments

    Ross Powell;Gene W. Domack

  • Glacial-Marine Sedimentation Processes and Lithofacies of Temperate Tidewater Glaciers, Glacier Bay, Alaska

    Ross D. Powell

  • Suspended sediment transport and deposition of cyclically interlaminated sediment in a temperate glacial fjord, Alaska, U.S.A.

    Ellen A. Cowan;Ross D. Powell

  • Ice-proximal sediment accumulation rates in a temperate glacial fjord, southeastern Alaska

    Ellen A. Cowan;Ross D. Powell

  • The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves

    James A. Smith;Alastair G. C. Graham;Alastair G. C. Graham;Alix L. Post;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand

  • Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

    R. H. Levy;R. H. Levy;S. R. Meyers;T. R. Naish;N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge

  • WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica:scientific operations and initial observations

    S. M. Tulaczyk;J. Mikucki;M. R. Siegfried;J. C. Priscu

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Richard H. Levy
Richard H. Levy GNS Science
Slawek Tulaczyk
Slawek Tulaczyk University of California, Santa Cruz
Fabio Florindo
Fabio Florindo National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Reed P. Scherer
Reed P. Scherer Northern Illinois University
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
David M. Harwood
David M. Harwood University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Frank Niessen
Frank Niessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
Gavin B. Dunbar
Gavin B. Dunbar Victoria University of Wellington

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