Member Since 1996
Kurt M. Cuffey
Professor, University of California Berkeley
Professional Experience
University of California Berkeley
Professor
1999 - Present
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Doctorate
1999
Honors & Awards
Publications
Geodynamic and Climatic Forcing on Late‐Cenozoic Exhumation of the Southern Patagonian Andes (Fitz R...
High‐relief glacial valleys shape the modern topography of the Southern Patagonian Andes, but their formation remains poorly understood. Two ...
July 23, 2024
Water isotope diffusion in the WAIS Divide ice core during t...
January 24, 2017
AGU Abstracts
On Subglacial Erosion: Limitations on Subglacial Bedrock Joint Coalescence Leading to Quarrying
LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION BENEATH AND BEYOND THE ICE I ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 09 december 2024
Christopher R. Theiss, Qi Zhao, Kurt M. Cuffey
Subglacial quarrying is usually a dominant erosive and sediment-generating process that also is a major contributor to subglacial bed roughness, which...
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Regimes and Transitions in Iceberg Calving
ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE POSTER PRESENTATIONS: CRYOSPHERE
cryosphere | 09 december 2024
Richard B. Alley, Kurt M. Cuffey, Jeremy N. Bassis...
Iceberg calving introduces large uncertainties into projections of sea-level rise in a warming world. Almost all calving occurs at the rate at which i...
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Subglacial Bedrock Fracture Growth Under Mixed Glacial Loading
LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION BENEATH AND BEYOND THE ICE II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2023
Christopher R. Theiss, Qi Zhao, Kurt M. Cuffey
Subglacial quarrying is a process typically thought of as dominantly responsible for erosion of subglacial bedrock. Unlike abrasion, it promotes bed r...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2023
Member
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Fellows Committee
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