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Gordon Oswald
Research Professor, Climate Change Institute
Contact Information
Phone:
207-581-2650
Email/web:
gordon.oswald@maine.edu
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Address:
68 Back Shore Road
Castine, ME
04421
Biosketch
I am a reserach professor interested in the analysis of radar survey data to determine basal conditions of ice sheets.
Research interests
With a background in radar surveys of ice sheets and their beds, sea ice, and temperate glacier ice, and after 30 years of radar work in private industry, I joined the Institute to apply new methods of analysis and extract greater detail from polar radar sensors. My research interest is in interface features of ice sheets, as they relate to stability and change. The presence, extent and flow of subglacial water provide my present focus, with associated study of internal layering and deep ice flow, deformation and erosion.
Publications
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Oswald, G. K. A. and Gogineni, S. P., 2008. Recovery of subglacial water extent from Greenland radar survey data J. Glaciol., 54, No. 184 94-106, 2008
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- Oswald, G. K. A., 1975. Investigation of sub-ice bedrock characteristics by radio-echo sounding J. Glaciol. 15, No. 73, pp75-87, 1975.
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Oswald, G. K. A. and Robin G. de Q., 1973. Lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet Nature, Vol 245, 5 October 1973
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Education
Worcester College, Oxford and Clare Hall, CambridgeAre you Gordon Oswald? If so, log in to edit your profile.
News &Events
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April 25, 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE DAY
Announcing the 6th Annual Climate Change Science Day at the University of Maine on May 2, 2013. This open house will include tours and demonstrations aimed at high school students and will feature... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Mayewski - Honorary Member of American Polar Society
Dr. Paul Mayewski was made Honorary Member of the American Polar Society after delivering the keynote address at the American Polar Society 75th Anniversary Celebration at Woods Hole, Mass. ... | Read more... -
April 24, 2013
Denton Among Winners of Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
Professor George Denton of the Climate Change Institute, and co-authors Philip Conkling, Richard Alley and Wallace Broecker are recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for “The... | Read more...
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April 8, 2013
Penobscot Bay Pilot Reports on UMaine Climate Change Researchers Alaska Trip - Karl Kreutz
The Penobscot Bay Pilot wrote an article about the upcoming trip to Alaska by University of Maine climate change researchers to collect an ice core record of Arctic climate change over the past... | Read more... -
March 29, 2013
Island life - Studying prehistoric fish and animal bones to help understand their roles in a food chain altered by climate change - Catherine West
Catherine West was a junior history major at Bryn Mawr when she jumped at the chance to be a field school student during a 1998 dig at a prehistoric Aleut site on Unalaska Island. As part of that... | Read more... -
March 28, 2013
Variations in snow and firn chemistry along US ITASE traverses and the effect of surface glazing. The Cryosphere, 7, 2, 515-535. doi:10.5194/tc-7-515-2013. - Dixon/Mayewski et al.
This study provides a baseline from which changes in the chemistry of the atmosphere over Antarctica can be monitored under expected warming scenarios and continued intensification of industrial... | Read more...
