Dr Jonathan Kingslake

Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Affiliated with: Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)
108D Oceanography Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Rte 9W Palisades, New York 10964 United States

BIOGRAPHY:

I went to The University of York, UK, and did a Physics BSc. My final year project was on the nucleation of freezing in supercooled water, supervised by Dr Richard Keesing. We scattered a laser through droplets of supercooled water to observed freezing as it was initiated by the application of an electric field.

Between 2009 and 2013 I did PhD in glaciology in the Department of Geography, Sheffield University, supervised by Dr Felix Ng. My thesis was entitled 'Modeling ice-dammed lake drainage'. I used mathematical models to study how water flows beneath glacier.

Between 2013 and 2016, was a Glacier Geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Cambridge, UK. I was employed on a NERC-funded project led by Richard Hindmarsh. We used radar and mathematical models to study present-day and past ice flow in West Antarctica. I conducted two two-month field seasons in the Weddell Sea Sector of Antarctica.

In March 2016 my wife and I moved from the UK and I started my current position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

My research is concerned with obtaining a better understanding of glacial processes to improve predictions of ice-sheet evolution.

I advise a group of students and post-docs using remote-sensing, mathematical modeling and fieldwork to better understand glacial processes.

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PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Holocene changes in Antarctic Ice Sheet extent
NSFPLR-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier	4/1/18	2/28/23
Satellite Observations and Modelling of Surface Meltwater Flow and its Impact on Ice	8/1/18	7/31/22
Workshop on Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Future Ice-shelf Stability	7/15/17	12/31/18
Greenland Ice Sheet Dynamic Response to Inland Expansion of a Hydrologically-Active Ice-Sheet Bed	10/1/20	9/30/23
Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2º Celsius (SWAIS 2C)	9/15/21	8/31/25
NSFGEO-NERC: Investigating the Direct Influence of Meltwater on Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics	8/15/23	7/31/26

12 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Modeling oscillations in connected glacial lakes	2019
Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river	2017
Widespread movement of meltwater onto and across Antarctic ice shelves	2017
Ice-flow reorganization in West Antarctica 2.5 kyr ago dated using radar-derived englacial flow velocities	2016
Antarctic ice rises and rumples: Their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution	2015
Chaotic dynamics of a glaciohydraulic model	2015
Glacial melt under a porous debris layer	2015
Modelling channelized surface drainage of supraglacial lakes	2015
Full-depth englacial vertical ice sheet velocities measured using phase-sensitive radar	2014
Modelling the coupling of flood discharge with glacier flow during jökulhlaups	2013
Potential subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets	2013
Quantifying the predictability of the timing of jökulhlaups from Merzbacher Lake, Kyrgyzstan	2013

PUBLICATIONS

Spergel, J., J. Kingslake, T. Creyts, M. van Wessem, H. A. Fricker. Surface Meltwater Drainage and Ponding on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, 1973-2019. Journal of Glaciology. 1-14. https://doi:10.1017/jog.2021.46

Fricker, H.A., P. Arndt, K.M. Brunt, R.T. Datta, Z. Fair, M.F. Jasinski, J. Kingslake, L.A. Magruder, M. Moussavi, A. Pope, J.J. Spergel, J.D. Stoll, B. Wouters. ICESat-2 Meltwater Depth Estimates: Application to Surface Melt on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090550

Wearing, M.G., J. Kingslake, & M. G. Worster (2020) Can unconfined ice shelves provide buttressing via hoop stresses? Journal of Glaciology, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2019.101

Lai C.Y., J. Kingslake, M.G. Wearing, P-H. C. Chen, P. Gentine, H. Li, J. Spergel, M. van Wessem (2020) Vulnerability of Antarctica’s ice shelves to meltwater-driven fracture, Nature, 584(7822), 574–578. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2627-8

Siegert, M, J., J. Kingslake, N. Ross, P. L. Whitehouse, J. Woodward, S.S.R. Jamieson, M. J. Bentley, K. Winter, M. Wearing, A. S. Hein, H. Jeofry, D. E. Sugden. (2019) Late Holocene Glacial History of the Weddell Sea Sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, Reviews of Geophysics, 57, 1197–1223. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000651

Boghosian, A.L., M.J. Pratt, M.K. Becker, S.I. Cordero, T. Dhakal, J. Kingslake, C.D. Locke, K.J. Tinto, R.E. Bell (2019) Inside the ice shelf: using augmented reality to visualise 3D lidar and radar data of Antarctica. The Photogrammetric Record, 34(168), 346–364.

Stubblefield, A.G., T.T. Creyts, J. Kingslake & M. Spiegelman (2019) Modeling oscillations in connected glacial lakes. Journal of Glaciology, 65(253), 745–758.

Brisbourne, A.M., C. Martín, A.M. Smith, A.F. Baird, J.M. Kendall & J. Kingslake (2019) Constraining Recent Ice Flow History at Korff Ice Rise, West Antarctica, Using Radar and Seismic Measurements of Ice Fabric. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124(1), 175–194. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004776

Wearing, M.G. and J. Kingslake (2019) Holocene Formation of Henry Ice Rise, West Antarctica, Inferred from Ice‐Penetrating Radar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 124, 8, 2224-2240, doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004988

Bell, R.E, A.F. Banwell, L.D. Trusel, J. Kingslake (2018) Antarctic surface hydrology and impacts on ice-sheet mass balance, Nature Climate Change, 8, 1044–1052 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0326-3

Kingslake, J., R.P. Scherer, T. Albrecht, J. Coenen, R.D. Powell, R. Reese, N.D. Stansell, S. Tulaczyk, M.G. Wearing & P.L. Whitehouse (2018) Extensive retreat and re-advance of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Holocene. Nature, 558(7710), 430–434. (pdf)

Siegert, M., N. Ross, H.F.J. Corr, J. Kingslake & R.C.H. Hindmarsh (2013) Late Holocene ice-flow reconfiguration in the Weddell Sea sector of West Antarctica. Quat. Sci. Rev., 78, 98-107. (pdf)

Livingstone, S.J. , W. Chu, J.C. Ely & J. Kingslake (2017) Palaeofluvial and subglacial channel networks beneath Humboldt Glacier, Greenland. Geology, G38860-1. (pdf)

Bell, R.E., W. Chu, J. Kingslake, I. Das, M. Tedesco, K.J. Tinto, C.J. Zappa, M. Frezzotti, A. Boghosian & W.S. Lee (2017) Antarctic ice shelf potentially stabilized by export of meltwater in surface river. Nature, 544(7650), 344-348. (pdf)

Shackleton, C., H. Patton, A. Hubbard, M. Winsborrow, J. Kingslake, M. Esteves, K. Andreassen and S.L. Greenwood, S.L. (2018) Subglacial water storage and drainage beneath the Fennoscandian and Barents Sea ice sheets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 13–28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.007 (pdf)

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