Member Since 1999
Helen Fricker
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Professional Experience
2025 - Present
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Professor
1999 - 2025
Education
University of Tasmania
Doctorate
1999
Honors & Awards
John F. Nye Lecture
Received December 2019
Union Fellow
Received December 2017
Citation
For advances in understanding of Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves, and subglacial hydrologic systems.
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Publications
Coincident Lake Drainage and Grounding Line Retreat at Engelhardt Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica
Antarctica has an active subglacial hydrological system, with interconnected subglacial lakes fed by subglacial meltwater. Subglacial hydrology can...
September 14, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Coincident lake drainage and grounding line retreat at Engelhardt Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica
PROCESSES AND ICE-OCEAN INTERACTIONS AT DYNAMIC ICE STREAM, ICE SHELF, AND MARINE-TERMINATING GLACIER MARGINS II ORAL
cryosphere | 12 december 2024
Bryony Freer, Oliver Marsh, Helen Amanda Fricker, ...
Antarctica has an active subglacial hydrological system, with interconnected subglacial lakes fed by subglacial meltwater. Subglacial hydrology can in...
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Observing Antarctic grounding line migration with ICESat-2 altimetry
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS II POSTER
cryosphere | 11 december 2024
Bryony Freer, Oliver Marsh, Helen Amanda Fricker, ...
Observations of Antarctic grounding zones have been recently highlighted as the missing key to understanding ice melt in Antarctica (Rignot, 2023). Ic...
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Positive Antarctic Mass Balance Contributions from Extreme Precipitation Observed in Short-Period ICESat-2 Data, 2019–2024
ADVANCES IN AIRBORNE AND SATELLITE ALTIMETRY OF THE POLAR REGIONS II POSTER
cryosphere | 11 december 2024
Susheel Adusumilli, Helen Amanda Fricker
Projected increases in Antarctic Ice Sheet precipitation in the 21st century will modify its associated sea level contribution. However, there is limi...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2021
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
2019 - 2020
Member
Cryosphere Fellows Committee
2013 - 2013
Member
Cryosphere Executive Committee
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