Publications

* = student/postdoc in group

In revision

  • Cohen, N., M. Wengrove, J. Nash, D. Sutherland, K. Zhao, K. Weiss, L. Waghorn, E. Pettit, R.H. Jackson, J. Nahorniak, D. Wengrove, N. Osman (in revison): “Characterizing submarine ice roughness at icebergs from a temperate tidewater glacier.” Journal of Glaciology.

Published

  • Ovall, B.*, R.H. Jackson, J. Nash, K. Zhao, N. Abib, J. Cusack, E. Skyllingstad, D. Sutherland, E. Pettit
    (2025): “Velocity observations of an upwelling subglacial discharge plume reveal links between entrainment and ice morphology.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130(11), doi:10.1029/2025JC022902

  • Shaya, M., J.D. Nash, E.C. Pettit, J.M. Amundson, R.H. Jackson, D.A. Sutherland, D. Winters (2025): “Calving as a source of acute and persistent kinetic energy to enhance submarine melting of tidewater glaciers.” Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (19), doi:10.1029/2025GL117900

  • Summers P.T.*, R.H. Jackson, A. A. Robel (2025): “Sub-grid Parameterization of Iceberg Drag in a Coupled Iceberg-Ocean Model.” The Cryosphere, 19, 5135–5156, doi:10.5194/tc-19-5135-2025

  • Graeff, D., B. Lipovsky, A. Vieli, A. Dachauer, R.H. Jackson, D. Farinotti, J. Schmale, J. Ampuero, E. Berg, A. Dannowski, A. Kneib-Walter, M. Kopfli, H. Kopp, E. van der Loo, D. Flores, D. Mercerat, R. Moser, A. Sladen, F. Walter, D. Wasser, E. Welty, S. Wetter, E. Williams (2025): “Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fiber sensing.” Nature, 644(8076), doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09347-7

  • Weiss, K., J. Nash, M. E. Wengrove, N. Osman, N.F. Cohen, R.H. Jackson, E.C. Pettit, K.X. Zhao, J.S. Nahorniak, D.A. Sutherland (2025): “Direct measurement of iceberg melt: boundary layer details are critical for submarine melt prediction.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2025GL114952.

  • Nash, J.D.,  K. Weiss, M. E. Wengrove, N. Osman, E. C. Pettit, K. Zhao, R.H. Jackson, J. Nahorniak, K. Jensen, E. Tindal, E. Skyllingstad, N. Cohen, D.A. Sutherland (2024):  “Turbulent Dynamics of Buoyant Melt Plumes Adjacent Near-Vertical Glacier Ice.” Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2024GL108790.

  • Wengrove, M., E. Pettit, J. Nash, R.H. Jackson, E. Skyllingstad (2023): “Melting of glacier ice enhanced by bursting air bubbles.” Nature Geoscience, 16, 871-876. doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01262-8

  • Cusack, J.M.*, Jackson, R.H., Nash, J.D., Skyllingstad, E., Pettit, E.C., Sutherland, D.A., Motyka, R.J. and Amundson, J.M. (2023): “Internal gravity waves generated by subglacial discharge: Implications for tidewater glacier melt”. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(12), doi:10.1029/2022GL102426

  • Wang, C., Chant, R. J., & Jackson, R.H. (2023). “Parameterizing subglacial discharge in modeling buoyancy driven flow in tidewater glacier fjords”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(8), doi:10.1029/2023JC019924

  • Abib, N., Sutherland, D.A., Amundson, J.M., Duncan, D., Eidam, E.F., Jackson, R.H., Kienholz, C., Morlighem, M., Motyka, R.J., Nash, J.D. and Ovall, B.* (2023): “Persistent overcut regions dominate the terminus morphology of a rapidly melting tidewater glacier.” Annals of Glaciology, pp.1-12, doi:10.1017/aog.2023.38

  • Jackson, R.H., R. Motyka, J. Amundson, N. Abib, D. Sutherland, J. Nash, C. Kienholz (2022): “The relationship between submarine melt and subglacial discharge from observations at a tidewater glacier.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, doi:10.1029/2021JC018204

  • Hager, A., D. Sutherland, J. Amundson, R.H. Jackson, R. Motyka, J. Nash (2022): “Subglacial discharge reflux and buoyancy forcing drive seasonality in a silled glacial fjord.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127, doi:10.1029/2021JC018355

  • Amundson, J.A., C. Kienholz, A.O. Hager, R.H. Jackson, R.J. Motyka,  J. D. Nash, & D. A. Sutherland
    (2020): “Formation, flow, and break-up of ephemeral ice melange at LeConte Glacier and Bay, Alaska.” Journal of Glaciology 1–14. doi:10.1017/jog.2020.29

  • G.A. Catania, L.A. Stearns, T.A. Moon, E.M. Enderlin, R.H. Jackson (2020), “Future Evolution of Greenland's Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. doi:10.1029/2018JF004873

  • Jackson, R. H., J.D. Nash, C. Kienholz, D.A. Sutherland, J.M. Amundson, R.J. Motyka, D. Winters, E. Skyllingstad, E. Pettit (2020), “Concentrated meltwater intrusions reveal mechanisms for rapid glacier melt.” Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2019GL085335

  • Sutherland, D.A., R. H. Jackson, C. Kienholz, J.M. Amundson, W.P. Dryer, D. Duncan, E.F. Eidam, and R. Motyka (2019), “Direct observations of submarine melt and subsurface geometry at a tidewater glacier.” Science, 365, doi:10.1126/science.aax3528

  • Jackson, R. H. (2019): “Ocean fingerprints on glacier motion.” Nature Geoscience, 12,  224–225, doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0343-5

  • Sutherland, D.A., F. Straneo, T. Moon, I. Le Bras, E. Frajka-Williams, J.L. Bamber, G.A. Catania, P. Heimbach, R.H. Jackson, L.A. Stearns (2019): “Freshwater fluxes from the Greenland Ice Sheet: Report from an international workshop.”  CLIVAR GRISO-NSF, pages 1–38, doi:10.18739/A24M9198B.

  • Kienholz, C., J.M. Amundson, R.J. Motyka, R.H. Jackson, J.B. Mickett, D.A. Sutherland, J.D. Nash, D.S. Winters, W.P. Dryer, and M. Truffer (2019). “Tracking icebergs with oblique time-lapse photography and sparse optical flow, LeConte Bay, Alaska.” Journal of Glaciology, 11, doi:10.1017/jog.2018.105

  • Jackson, R.H., S.J. Lentz, and F. Straneo (2018): “The dynamics of shelf forcing in Greenlandic fjords.” Journal of Physical Oceanography, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-18-0057.1 

  • Spall, M., R. H. Jackson, and F. Straneo (2017): “Katabatic wind driven exchange in fjords.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122. doi:10.1002/2017JC013026

  • Jackson, R. H., E. L. Shroyer, J. D. Nash, D. A. Sutherland, D. Carroll, M. J. Fried, G. A. Catania, T. C. Bartholomaus, L. A. Stearns (2017): “Near-glacier surveying of a subglacial discharge plume: Implications for plume parameterizations” Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL073602.

  • Nash, J.D., J. Marion, N. McComb, J.S. Nahorniak, R. H. Jackson, C. Perren, D. Winters, A. Pickering, J. Bruslind, O.L. Yong, and S.J.K. Lee (2017): “Autonomous CTD profiling from the Robotic Oceanographic Surface Sampler.” Oceanography, 30(2):110–112, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.229.

  • Jackson, R.H., and Straneo, F., (2016): "Heat, salt and freshwater budgets for a glacial fjord in Greenland." Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46, 2735-2768, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-15-0134.1

  • Jackson, R.H., Straneo, F., and Sutherland, D.A. (2014). "Externally forced fluctuations in ocean temperature at Greenland glaciers in non-summer months." Nature Geoscience, 7, 503–508, doi:10.1038/ngeo2186