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Wayne H. Pollard

Wayne H. Pollard

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Earth Science

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45
Citations
7203
World Ranking
4481
National Ranking
207

Overview

Wayne H. Pollard is affiliated with McGill University in Canada, contributing extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate change impacts on permafrost, cryospheric studies, and related geochemical and geological phenomena.

The core scientific topics covered in their work include:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow

Their research spans a range of subfields, notably:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

Wayne H. Pollard has published numerous papers, with recent works including:

  • Improved prediction of the vertical distribution of ground ice in Arctic-Antarctic permafrost sediments (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • A model for stable isotopes of residual liquid water and ground ice in permafrost soils using arbitrary water chemistries and soil-specific empirical residual water functions (2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes)
  • Impacts of Degrading Ice-Wedges on Ground Temperatures in a High Arctic Polar Desert System (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • Holocene ice wedge formation in the Eureka Sound Lowlands, high Arctic Canada (2021, Quaternary Research)
  • Daily Field Observations of Retrogressive Thaw Slump Dynamics in the Canadian High Arctic (2021, ARCTIC)

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Quaternary Research
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • ARCTIC

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Denis Lacelle
  • David Fisher
  • Kethra Campbell-Heaton
  • Marjolaine Verret
  • Hugues Lantuit

Best Publications

  • The Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database: A New Classification Scheme and Statistics on Arctic Permafrost Coastlines

    Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Pier Paul Overduin;Nicole Couture;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Fifty years of coastal erosion and retrogressive thaw slump activity on Herschel Island, southern Beaufort Sea, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard

  • Characterization of the microbial diversity in a permafrost sample from the Canadian high Arctic using culture-dependent and culture-independent methods.

    Blaire Steven;Geoffrey Briggs;Chris P. McKay;Wayne H. Pollard

  • Microbial ecology and biodiversity in permafrost

    Blaire Steven;Richard Léveillé;Wayne H. Pollard;Lyle G. Whyte

  • Microbial diversity and activity through a permafrost/ground ice core profile from the Canadian high Arctic.

    Blaire Steven;Wayne H. Pollard;Charles W. Greer;Lyle G. Whyte

  • Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica.

    Jacqueline Goordial;Alfonso Davila;Denis Lacelle;Wayne Pollard

  • A comparison of TerraSAR-X, RADARSAT-2 and ALOS-PALSAR interferometry for monitoring permafrost environments, case study from Herschel Island, Canada

    Naomi Short;Brian Brisco;Nicole Couture;Wayne Pollard

  • Characterization of the prokaryotic diversity in cold saline perennial springs of the Canadian high Arctic.

    Nancy N. Perreault;Nancy N. Perreault;Dale T. Andersen;Wayne H. Pollard;Charles W. Greer

  • A first approximation of the volume of ground ice, Richards Island, Pleistocene Mackenzie delta, Northwest Territories, Canada

    W. H. Pollard;H. M. French

  • Erosion and Flooding—Threats to Coastal Infrastructure in the Arctic: A Case Study from Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Boris Radosavljevic;Boris Radosavljevic;Hugues Lantuit;Hugues Lantuit;Wayne Pollard;Paul Overduin

  • Rapid initialization of retrogressive thaw slumps in the Canadian high Arctic and their response to climate and terrain factors

    Melissa K Ward Jones;Wayne H Pollard;Benjamin M Jones

  • Formation of Martian Gullies by the Action of Liquid Water Flowing Under Current Martian Environmental Conditions

    Jennifer L. Heldmann;Jennifer L. Heldmann;Owen B. Toon;Wayne H. Pollard;Michael T. Mellon

  • An active atmospheric methane sink in high Arctic mineral cryosols

    M C Y Lau;B T Stackhouse;A C Layton;A Chauhan

  • Modern and Late Holocene Retrogressive Thaw Slump Activity on the Yukon Coastal Plain and Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard;N. Couture;N. Couture;Michael Fritz

  • Geophysical mapping of ground ice using a combination of capacitive coupled resistivity and ground-penetrating radar, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Gregory P. De Pascale;Wayne H. Pollard;Kevin K. Williams

  • The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A Search for Biomolecular Evidence for Life

    Christopher P. McKay;Carol R. Stoker;Brian J. Glass;Arwen I. Davé

  • Cold springs in permafrost on Earth and Mars

    Dale T. Andersen;Wayne H. Pollard;Christopher P. McKay;Jennifer Heldmann

  • Temporal stereophotogrammetric analysis of retrogressive thaw slumps on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory

    Hugues Lantuit;W. H. Pollard

  • Methane‐cycling communities in a permafrost‐affected soil on Herschel Island, Western Canadian Arctic: active layer profiling of mcrA and pmoA genes

    Béatrice A. Barbier;Isabel Dziduch;Susanne Liebner;Lars Ganzert

  • TandEM: Titan and Enceladus mission

    Athena Coustenis;Sushil K. Atreya;T. Balint;R.H. Brown

  • Basal ice facies and supraglacial melt-out till of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands, western Arctic Canada

    J.B. Murton;C.A. Whiteman;R.I. Waller;W.H. Pollard

  • Gradient analysis of cryoconite ecosystems from two polar glaciers

    D. R. Mueller;D. R. Mueller;W. H. Pollard

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Christopher P. McKay
Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center
Sebastian Wetterich
Sebastian Wetterich Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Alfonso F. Davila
Alfonso F. Davila Ames Research Center
Denis Lacelle
Denis Lacelle University of Ottawa
Lyle G. Whyte
Lyle G. Whyte McGill University
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Gordon R. Osinski
Gordon R. Osinski University of Western Ontario

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