Glaciologist
Dr Jason Roberts
Dr Roberts’ background is in computational and experimental fluid dynamics, where he has worked on both engineering scale problems and geophysical flows in the form of ocean and ice sheet modelling. He is currently part of the ACE CRC’s ice core research group studying what Antarctic ice cores can tell us about the previous climate of Antarctica and Australia.
RESEARCH
Dr Roberts is the chief investigator on the ICECAP project which is conducting airborne surveys of the ice-sheet to better determine the key variables that are controlling it’s flow, the geometry of the bedrock and the type of rock underneath the ice. In addition, he works as part of the group interpreting the ice core records for information on Antarctic and Australia’s past climate.
LINKS
ICECAP Homepage, University of Texas at Austin
Hidden oceanic gateway may be melting Totten Glacier, Australian Antarctic Division, 17 March 2015
Comprehensive publications list: University of Tasmania WARP
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Young, D.A., Wright, A.P., Roberts, J.L., Warner, R.C., Young, N.W., Greenbaum, J.S., Schroeder, D.M., Holt, J.W., Sugden, D.E., Blankenship, D.D., Van Ommen, T.D., Siegert, M.J. (2011): A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes, Nature, 474 (7349), DOI: 10.1038/nature10114
Vance, T.R., Roberts, J.L., Plummer, C.T., Kiem, A.S. and van Ommen, T.D. (2014): Interdecadal Pacific variability and eastern Australian mega-droughts over the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, 41, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062447s)
Greenbaum, J.S., Blankenship, D.D., Young D.A., Richter, T.G., Roberts, J.L., Aitken, A.R.A., Legresy, B., Schroeder, D.M., Warner, R.C., van Ommen, T.D., Siegert, M.J. (accepted): Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier, East Antarctica, Nature Geoscience.
Location: Hobart, TasmaniaAuthorised by the CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre October 2019.
The ACE CRC was established and supported under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program.
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