Research Interests

• Seasonal Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions
  • Stammerjohn et al. (2008): "Sea Ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula Region: Spatio-Temporal Variability from Ecological and Climate Change Perspectives"
  • Martinson et al. (2008): "Palmer, Antarctica, Long-Term Ecological Research Program First Twelve Years: Physical Oceanography, Spatio-Temporal Variability"
  • Massom et al. (2008): "West Antarctic Peninsula Sea Ice in 2005: Extreme Ice Compaction and Ice Edge Retreat due to Strong Anomaly with Respect to Climate"
  • Stammerjohn et al. (2003): "Ice-atmosphere interactions during sea-ice advance and retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula region"
• Southern Ocean Climate Variability
  • Stammerjohn et al. (2008): "Trends in Antarctic Annual Sea Ice Retreat and Advance and their Relation to ENSO and Southern Annular Mode Variability"
  • Stammerjohn and Smith (1997): "Opposing Southern Ocean climate patterns as revealed by trends in regional sea ice coverage"
• Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Understanding Environmental and Ecosystem Response to Climate Variability
  • Smith et al. (2008): "Bellingshausen and Western Antarctic Peninsula Region: Pigment Biomass and Sea Ice Spatial/Temporal Distributions and Interannaul Variability"
  • Ducklow et al. (2007): "Marine Pelagic Ecosystems: the West Antarctic Peninsula"
  • Massom et al. (2006): "Extreme Anomalous Atmospheric Circulation in the West Antarctic Peninsula Region in Austral Spring and Summer 2001/02 and its Profound Impact on Sea Ice and biota"

Current Projects

• Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER): Testing hypotheses linking sea ice variability to carbon and oxygen dynamics, seasonal primary production, krill abundance, distribution and recruitment, breeding success and survival of apex predators such as penguins, and large-scale interactions of the atmosphere and oceans, Co-investigator with Ducklow (MBL, Lead PI), Martinson (LDEO), Schofield (RU), Steinberg (VIMS), Fraser (POR), Doney (WHOI), Clarke/Meredith (BAS), Baker (UCSD), NSF award
• Improving Current Assessments and Future Predictions of Carbon Fluxes in the Southern Ocean as Mediated by the Dynamical Response of Ice-Ocean-Ecosystem Interactions to Climate Change, Lead Investigator with Sweeney (NOAA/UC), Ross (UCSB), Quetin (UCSB), Vernet (UCSD), Fristen (DRI), NASA 2008-2010 award
• Science-of-Opportunity Aboard Icebreaker Oden, Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions and Changes, Co-Investigator with Yuan (LDEO), NSF SGER 2008 award
• IPY/ASEP (Amundsen Sea Embayment Project) - Collaborative International Research: Amundsen Sea Influence on West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability and Sea Level Rise, collaborating with Lead Investigator Jacobs (LDEO), NSF award

Recent Activities & Ongoing Analyses

• Sea Ice Mass Balance in Antarctica (SIMBA), Antarctic IPY Research Cruise, 1 Sep - 31 Oct 2007
  • SIMBA Website
  • Photo Log
• Oden Southern Ocean 2007 (OSO2007), Antarctic Research Cruise, 28 Nov 2007 - 8 Jan 2008
  • Outreach
  • Photo Log
• Analyses of satellite sea ice data for the Palmer LTER
  • About the data
  • Data, plots, etc
• Animations of satellite sea ice data created for the Palmer LTER
  • Monthly animations
  • Month by year animations
  • Daily animations