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Overview

Shad O'Neel is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of Atmospheric Science and Environmental Science. Additional subfields of study include Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their scientific work covers a variety of interconnected topics including Cryospheric studies and observations, Winter Sports Injuries and Performance, Climate change and permafrost, Landslides and related hazards, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Cryosphere
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Shad O'Neel include:

  • "The Arctic" (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Historical Structure from Motion (HSfM): Automated processing of historical aerial photographs for long-term topographic change analysis" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Uncertainty of ICESat-2 ATL06- and ATL08-derived snow depths for glacierized and vegetated mountain regions" (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Explaining mass balance and retreat dichotomies at Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers, Alaska" (2020), published in Journal of Glaciology
  • "How to handle glacier area change in geodetic mass balance" (2023), published in Journal of Glaciology

Shad O'Neel collaborates regularly with several researchers including Louis Sass, Christopher McNeil, Hans-Peter Marshall, Emily H. Baker, and Ellyn M. Enderlin, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise

    W. T. Pfeffer;J. T. Harper;S. O'Neel

  • Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century.

    Mark F. Meier F. Meier;Mark B. Dyurgerov;Ursula K. Rick;Shad O'Neel

  • Storage and release of organic carbon from glaciers and ice sheets

    Eran Hood;Tom J. Battin;Jason Fellman;Shad O'Neel

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Strong feedbacks between hydrology and sliding of a small alpine glacier

    Robert S. Anderson;Robert S. Anderson;Suzanne P. Anderson;Suzanne P. Anderson;Kelly R. MacGregor;Kelly R. MacGregor;Edwin D. Waddington

  • Surface melt dominates Alaska glacier mass balance

    C. F. Larsen;E. Burgess;E. Burgess;A. A. Arendt;S. O'Neel

  • Mapping the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using ICESat laser altimetry

    Kelly M. Brunt;Helen A. Fricker;Laurie Padman;Ted A. Scambos

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Evolving force balance at Columbia Glacier, Alaska, during its rapid retreat

    Shad O'Neel;W. Tad Pfeffer;Robert Krimmel;Mark Meier

  • Icefield-to-Ocean Linkages across the Northern Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem

    Shad O'Neel;Eran Hood;Allison L. Bidlack;Sean W. Fleming

  • A complex relationship between calving glaciers and climate

    Austin Post;Shad O'Neel;Roman J. Motyka;Gregory Streveler

  • Seismic detection and analysis of icequakes at Columbia Glacier, Alaska

    Shad O'Neel;Hans P. Marshall;Daniel E. McNamara;William Tad Pfeffer

  • 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

  • Twentieth century thinning of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, and its relationship to climate, lake calving, and glacier run-off

    Roman J Motyka;Roman J Motyka;Shad O'Neel;Shad O'Neel;Cathy L Connor;Keith A Echelmeyer

  • Termini of calving glaciers as self-organized critical systems

    Jan A. Åström;Dorothée Vallot;Martina Schäfer;Martina Schäfer;Ethan Z. Welty

  • Subglacial discharge at tidewater glaciers revealed by seismic tremor

    Timothy C. Bartholomaus;Jason M. Amundson;Jacob I. Walter;Shad O'Neel

  • Iceberg calving during transition from grounded to floating ice: Columbia Glacier, Alaska

    Fabian Walter;Shad O'Neel;Daniel McNamara;W. T. Pfeffer

  • Does calving matter? Evidence for significant submarine melt

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  • Short-term variations in calving of a tidewater glacier: LeConte Glacier, Alaska, U.S.A.

    Shad O’Neel;Keith A. Echelmeyer;Roman J. Motyka

  • Global sea-level contribution from Arctic land ice: 1971 to 2017

    Jason Eric Box;William T Colgan;Bert Wouters;David O Burgess

  • Reanalysis of the US Geological Survey Benchmark Glaciers: Long-Term Insight into Climate Forcing of Glacier Mass Balance

    Shad O'Neel;Christopher J. McNeil;Louis C. Sass;Caitlyn Florentine

  • Short-term flow dynamics of a retreating tidewater glacier : LeConte Glacier, Alaska, U. S. A.

    S. O’Neel;K. A. Echelmeyer;R. J. Motyka

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel McGrath
Daniel McGrath Colorado State University
W. T. Pfeffer
W. T. Pfeffer University of Colorado Boulder
Eran Hood
Eran Hood University of Alaska Southeast
Martin Truffer
Martin Truffer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Helen A. Fricker
Helen A. Fricker University of California, San Diego
Fabian Walter
Fabian Walter ETH Zurich
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Catia M. Domingues
Catia M. Domingues National Oceanography Centre

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