Publications
D. Fahrner, G. Catania, M. Shahin, D. Hansen, K. Loeffer, J. Abermann, in press, Advances in monitoring glaciological processes in Greenland over the past decades, PLOS Climate.
G. Catania, D. Felikson, 2023, Topographic modulation of outlet glaciers in Greenland: A review, Annals of Glaciology.
E. Zhang, G. Catania, D. Trugman, in review, AutoTerm: An automated pipeline for glacier terminus extraction using machine learning and a ‘big data’ repository of Greenland glacier termini, The Cryosphere.
E. Carnahan, G. Catania, T. Bartholomaus, 2022, Observed mechanism for sustained glacier retreat and acceleration in response to ocean warming around Greenland, The Cryosphere.
S. Goliber, T. Black, G. Catania, J. Lea, H. Olsen, D. Cheng, S. Bevan, A. Bjork, C. Bunce, S. Brough, J.R. Carr, T. Cowton, A. Gardner, D. Fahrner, E. Hill, I. Joughin, N. Korsgaard, A. Luckman, T. Moon, A. Sole, M. Wood, E. Zhang, 2022, TermPicks: A century of Greenland glacier terminus data for use in machine learning applications, The Cryosphere.
J. Christian, A. Robel, G. Catania, 2022, A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats, The Cryosphere.
G. Catania, T. Moon, and A. Aschwanden (2022), Glacial knowledge gaps impede resilience to sea level rise, Eos.
A. Robel, S.S. Pegler, G. Catania, D. Felikson, L.M. Simkins, 2022, Ambiguous stability of glaciers at bed peaks, Journal of Glaciology.
2023
2022
G. Catania, L. A. Stearns, T. Moon, E. Enderlin, R. Jackson, 2020, AGU Centennial Grand Challenge: Future evolution of Greenland's outlet glaciers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface.
D. Felikson, G. Catania, T. Bartholomaus, M. Morlighem, 2020, Steep glacier knickpoints mitigate inland thinning in Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters.
2020
M. Fried, D. Carroll, G. Catania, D. Sutherland, L. Stearns, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, 2019, Distinct frontal ablation processes drive heterogeneous submarine terminus morphology, Geophysical Research Letters.
F. Straneo, D. Sutherland, L. Stearns, G. Catania, P. Heimbach, T. Moon, M. Cape, K. Laidre, D. Barber, S. Rysgaard, R. Mottram, S. Olsen, M. Hopwood, L. Meire, 2019, The case for a sustained Greenland Ice sheet-Ocean Observing System, Frontiers in Marine Science: Ocean Observation.
2019
D. Carroll, D. Sutherland, B. Curry, J. Nash, E. Shroyer, G. Catania, L. Stearns, J. Grist, C. Lee, L. de Steur, 2018, Sub-annual and seasonal variability of Atlantic-origin waters in two adjacent west Greenland fjords, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.
M. Fried, G. Catania, L. Stearns, D. Sutherland, T. Bartholomaus, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, 2018, Reconciling drivers of seasonal terminus advance and retreat at thirteen central west Greenland tidewater glaciers, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface.
G. Catania, L. Stearns, D. Sutherland, M. Fried, T. Bartholomaus, M. Morlighem, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, 2018, Geometric controls on tidewater glacier retreat in Central Western Greenland, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface.
L. Andrews, M. Hoffman, T. Neumann, G. Catania, M. Lüthi, R. Hawley, K. Schild, C. Ryser, B. Morriss, 2018, Seasonal evolution of the subglacial hydrologic system modified by supraglacial lake drainage in western Greenland, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface.
M. Hoffman, M. Perego, L. Andrews, S. Price, T. Neumann, J. Johnson, G. Catania , M. Lüthi, 2018, Widespread moulin formation during supraglacial lake drainages in Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 45 , 778-788.
2018
M.Morlighem, C.N.Williams, E.Rignot, L.An, J.L.Bamber, G.Catania, N.Chauche, J.A.Dowdeswell, B. Dorschel, I. Fenty, K. Hogan, I. Howat, A. Hubbard, M. Jakobsson, T.M. Jordan, K.K. Kjeldsen, R. Millan, L. Mayer, J. Mouginot, B.P.Y. Noel, C. O’Cofaigh, S. Palmer, S. Rysgaard, H. Seroussi, M.J. Siegert, P. Slabon, F. Straneo, M.R. van den Broeke, W. Weinrebe, M. Wood, and K. B. Zinglersen, 2017, Bed Machine v3: Complete bed topography and ocean bathymetry mapping of Greenland from multi-beam echo sounding combined with mass conservation, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 11,051-11,061.
D. Carroll, D. Sutherland, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, G. Catania, L. Stearns, 2017, Subglacial discharge-driven renewal of tidewater glacier fjords, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans.
R. Jackson, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, D. Sutherland, D. Carroll, M. Fried, G. Catania, T. Bartholomaus, L. Stearns, 2017, Near-glacier surveying of a subglacial discharge plume: Implications for plume parameterizations Geophysical Research Letters.
D. Felikson, T. Bartholomaus, G. Catania, N. Korsgaard, K. Kjaer, M. Morlighem, B. Noel, M. van den Broeke, L. Stearns, J. Nash, E. Shroyer, D. Sutherland, J. Nash, 2017, Inland thinning on the Greenland ice sheet controlled by outlet glacier geometry, Nature Geoscience.
L. Logan, L. Lavier, E. Choi, E. Tan and G. Catania, 2017, Semi-brittle rheology and ice dynamics in DynEarthSol3D, The Cryosphere, 11, 117-132.
2017
M. Hoffman, L. Andrews, S. Price, G. Catania, T. Neumann, M. Lüthi, J. Gulley, C. Ryser, R. Hawley, B. Morriss, 2016, Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly-connected regions of the bed, Nature Communications.
C. Hulbe, M. Klinger, M. Masterson, G. Catania, K. Cruikshank, A. Bugni, 2016, Tidal bending and strand cracks at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding line, West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 62(235).
D. Carroll, D. Sutherland, B. Hudson, T. Moon, G. Catania, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, T. Bartholomaus, D. Felikson, L. Stearns, B. Noel, M. van den Broeke, 2016, The impact of glacier geometry on meltwater plume structure and submarine melt in Greenland fjords, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 9739-9748.0
J. MacGregor, M. Fahnestock, G. Catania, A. Aschwanden, G. Clow, W. Colgan, S. Gogineni, M. Morlighem, S. Nowicki, J. Paden, S. Price, H. Seroussi, 2016, A synthesisof the basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research.
T. Bartholomaus, L. Stearns, D. Sutherland, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, R. Walker, G. Catania, D. Felikson, D. Carroll, M. Fried, B. Noel, M. van den Broeke, 2016, Contrasts in the response of adjacent fjords and glaciers to ice sheet surface melt in western Greenland, Annals of Glaciology.
E. Rignot, I. Fenty, Y. Xu, C. Cai, I. Velicogna, C. O’Cofaigh, W. Weinrebe, G. Catania, D. Duncan, 2016, Bathymetry data reveal glaciers vulnerable to ice-ocean interaction in Uummannaq and Vaggat glacial fjords, west Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters.
J. MacGregor, W. Colgan, M. Fahnestock, M. Morlighem, G. Catania, J. Paden, S. Gogineni, 2016, Holocene deceleration of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 351(590).
O. Marsh, H. Fricker, M. Siegfried, K. Christianson, K. Nicholls, H. Corr and G. Catania, 2016, High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters.
2016
M. Fried, G. Catania, T. Bartholomaus, D. Duncan, M. Davis, L. Stearns, J. Nash, E. Shroyer, D. Sutherland, R. Walker, 2015, Subglacial discharge drives heterogenous submarine melt at a Greenland tidewater glacier, Geophysical Research Letters, 9328–9336.
D. Carroll, D. Sutherland, E. Shroyer, J. Nash, G. Catania, L. Stearns, 2015, Modeling turbulent subglacial meltwater plumes: Implications for fjord-scale buoyancy-driven circulation, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 45, 2169–2185.
J. MacGregor, J. Li, J. Paden, G. Catania, G. Clow, M. Fahnestock, S. Gogenini, R. Grimm, M. Morlighem, S. Nandi, H. Seroussi, D. Stillman, 2015, Radar attenuation and temperature within the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 983-1008.
M. Lüthi, C. Ryser, L.C. Andrews, G. Catania, M. Funk, R.L. Hawley, M.J. Hoffman, T.A. Neumann, 2015, Excess heat in the Greenland Ice Sheet: dissipation, temperate paleo-firn and cryo-hydrologic warming, The Cryosphere, 245-253.
J. MacGregor, M. Fahnestock, G. Catania, J. Paden, S. Gogenini, S. Young, S. Rybarski, A. Mabrey, B. Wagman, M. Morlighem, 2015, Radiostratigraphy and age structure of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research.
2015
C. Ryser, M.P. Lüthi, L.C. Andrews, G. Catania, M. Funk, R. Hawley, M. Hoffman, T. Neumann, 2014, Caterpillar-like ice motion in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research.
L. Andrews, G. Catania, M. Hoffman, J. Gulley, M. Lüthi, C. Ryser, R. Hawley and T. Neumann, 2014, Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, Nature, 514, 80-83.
C. Ryser, M.P. Lüthi, L.C. Andrews, G. Catania, R. Hawley, T. Neumann, 2014, Sustained high basal motion of the Greenland Ice Sheet revealed by borehole deformation, Journal of Glaciology, 60(222), 647-660.
C. Roosli, F. Walter, S. Husen, L. Andrews, M. Lüthi, G. Catania, E. Kissling, 2014, Sustained seismic tremors and icequakes detected in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Glaciology, 60(221), 563-583.
T.J. Fudge, H. Conway, G. Catania, D. Blankenship, K. Christianson, I. Joughin, B. Smith, S. Kempf, D. Young and S. Anandakrishnan, 2014, Identifying flowlines and limitations of flux analyses in the interior of Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), 107-114.
2014
B.F. Morriss, R.L. Hawley, J.W. Chipman, L.C. Andrews, G. Catania, M.J. Hoffman, M.P. Lüthi, T.A. Neumann, 2013, A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm for multispectral imagery, The Cryosphere, 7, 1869-1877.
J.A. MacGregor, G. Catania, H. Conway, D. Schroeder, I. Joughin, D. Young, S. Kempf, D. Blankenship, 2013, Weak bed control of the eastern shear margin of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 59(217).
J.D. Gulley, P. Spellman, J. Martin, M. Covington, D. Benn and G. Catania, 2013, Large values of hydraulic roughness in subglacial conduits during conduit enlargement: implications for modeling conduit evolution, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
L. Logan, G. Catania, E. Choi, L. Lavier, 2013, A novel method for predicting fracture in floating ice, Journal of Glaciology, 59(216).
B. Wagman, G. Catania, 2013, Impact of subglacial hydrology on force balance for a physically-modeled ice stream, Annals of Glaciology, 54(63).
F. Straneo, P. Heimbach, O. Sergienko, G. Hamilton, G. Catania, and others, 2013, Challenges to understand the dynamic response of Greenland's Marine terminating glaciers to oceanic and atmospheric forcing, BAMS.
P. Fretwell and others, 2013, BEDMAP 2: Improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica, Cryosphere, 7(1), 375-393.
2013
J.D. Gulley, M. Grabiec, J.B. Martin, J. Jania, G. Catania, P. Glowacki, 2012, The effect of discrete recharge by moulins and heterogeneity in flow-path efficiency at glacier beds on subglacial hydrology, Journal of Glaciology, 58(211), 926-940.
J.D. Gulley, P. Walthard, J. Martin, A. Banwell, D. Benn, G. Catania, 2012, Conduit roughness and dye-trace breakthrough curves: why slow velocity and high dispersivity may not reflect flow in distributed systems, Journal of Glaciology, 58(211), 915-925.
G. Catania, C. Hulbe, H. Conway, T.A. Scambos, C.F. Raymond, 2012, Variability in the mass flux of the Ross Sea ice streams, Antarctica, over the last millennium: a review, Journal of Glaciology, 58(210), 741-752.
J.A. MacGregor, G. Catania, M.S. Markowski and A.G. Andrews, 2012, Widespread rifting and retreat of ice-shelf margins in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment between 1972 and 2011, Journal of Glaciology, 58(209), 458-466.
M.J. Hoffman, G. Catania, T.A. Neumann, L. Andrews, J.A. Rumrill, 2011, Links between acceleration, melting, and supraglacial lake drainage of the Western Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(F04035).
R. Obbard, K. Sieg, I. Baker, D. Meese and G. Catania, 2011, Microstructural evolution in the fine-grained region of the Siple Dome ice core, Journal of Glaciology, 57(206), 1046-1056.
J.MacGregor, S. Anandakrishnan, G. Catania, and D. Winebrenner, 2011, The grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, from ice-penetrating radar, Journal of Glaciology, 57(205), 917-928.
2012
G. Catania, C. Hulbe and H. Conway, 2010, Grounding-line basal melt rates derived using radar-derived internal stratigraphy, Journal of Glaciology, 56(197), 545-554.
G. Catania and T. Neumann, 2010, Persistent englacial drainage features of the Greenland Ice Sheet Geophysical Research Letters, 37(L02501).
2010
K. Matsuoka, A. Gades, H. Conway, G. Catania, C. Raymond, 2009, Radar signatures beneath a surface topographic lineation near the outlet of Kamb Ice Stream and Engelhardt Ridge, West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 51, 98-104.
2009
G. Catania, T. Neumann and S. Price, 2008, Characterizing englacial drainage in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Glaciology, 54(187), 567-578.
S. Price, A. Payne, G. Catania, T. Neumann, 2008, Seasonal acceleration of inland ice via longitudinal coupling to marginal ice, Journal of Glaciology, 54(185), 213-219.
T. Neumann, H. Conway, S. Price, E. Waddington, G. Catania and D. Morse, 2008, Holocene accumulation and ice sheet dynamics in central West Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, F02018.
S. Anandakrishnan, G. Catania, R. Alley, and H. Horgan, 2007, Discovery of till deposition at the grounding line of Whillans Ice Stream, Science, 315, 1835-1838.
G. Catania, T. Scambos, H. Conway, and C. Raymond, 2006, The sequential stagnation of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters, 22, (L14502).
G. Catania, H. Conway, C. Raymond and T. Scambos, 2006, Evidence for floatation or near-floatation in the mouth of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica prior to stagnation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, F01005.
C. Raymond, G. Catania, N. Nereson and K. van der Veen, 2006, Bed radar reflectivity across the north margin of Ice Stream B2 and implications for margin processes, Journal of Glaciology, 52(176), 3-10.
G. Catania, H. Conway, C. Raymond and T. Scambos, 2005, Surface morphology and internal layer stratigraphy in the downstream end of Kamb Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 51(174), 423-431.
I. Joughin, R. Bindschadler, M. King, D. Voigt, R. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, H. Horgan, L. Peters, P. Winberry, S. Das and G. Catania, 2005, Continued deceleration of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L22501.
D. Winebrenner, B. Smith, G. Catania, H. Conway and C. Raymond, 2003, Radio-frequency attenuation beneath Siple Dome, West Antarctica, from wide-angle and profiling radar observations, Annals of Glaciology, 37, 226-232.
G. Catania, H. Conway, A. Gades, C. Raymond, and H. Engelhardt, 2003, Bed reflectivity beneath inactive ice streams in West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 36, 287-291.
H. Conway, G. Catania, C. Raymond, A. Gades, T. Scambos, H. Engelhardt, 2002, Switch of flow direction of an Antarctic ice stream, Nature, 419(6906), 465-467.
G. Catania and C. Paola, 2001, Braiding under glass. Geology, 29(3), 259-262.