Projects

Greenland-scape

In pursuit of an improved, physically-based bed topography map for Greenland.

The Evolution and Impact of Kilometer-scale Melt Features in Antarctic Ice Shelves (Dissertation)

Elucidating connections between narrow ice shelf melt features (known as basal channels) and structural changes on ice shelves, and challenging the assumptions used to examine ice shelf change.

Publications and Products

Chartrand, A.M., Howat, I.M., Joughin, I.R., Smith, B.E. (In review). Basal channels, ice thinning and grounding zone retreat at Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1132.  

Chartrand, A.M., & Howat, I. M. (2023). A Comparison of Contemporaneous Airborne Altimetry and Ice-Thickness Measurements of Antarctic Ice Shelves. Journal of Glaciology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.49.

Chartrand, A. M., & Howat, I. M. (2020). Basal Channel Evolution on the Getz Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(9), e2019JF005293. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005293.