Scott Braddock
External Associate – Climate Change Institute
Education
- PhD. 2024, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
- M.Sc., 2014, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
- B.Sc., 2012, Geological Sciences, Central Connecticut State University
Research Interests
My current research is funded to examine changes in snowpacks in Arctic and subArctic environments and how these changing snowpacks are connected to land instability. In addition, I study past and current ice-volume changes in Antarctica, Patagonia and Alaska using geophysical methods and a range of paleoclimate proxies.
Through research and outreach, I collaborate with the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP), the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), and Upward Bound programs nationwide to teach undergraduate and high school students about the cryosphere and how changes in the Arctic relate to changes in their own communities.
Additionally, I have worked several years as a conservationist in Patagonia and Costa Rica with Round River Conservation Studies. My interests also include the connections between the cryosphere and biosphere as they are intricately linked around the world. Especially so in fast-changing ecosystems such as around the Southern Patagonian Icefield.
Check out my personal website, PolarExplorations.org for more information!
Publications
- Braddock, S., Hall, B. L., Johnson, J. S., Balco, G., Spoth, M., Whitehouse, P. L., Campbell, S., Goehring, B. M., Rood, D. H., and Woodward, J. Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay. (2022). Nature Geoscience. 15. 568–572 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00961-y
- Braddock, S.,Venturelli RA, Nichols K, et al. Lessons learned from shallow subglacial bedrock drilling campaigns in Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology. 2025;65:e18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2024.12
- Johnson, J. S., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K. A., Venturelli, R. A., Braddock S, et al.: Detecting Holocene retreat and readvance in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica: assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling. (2024), EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1452
- Balco, G., Brown, N., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R. A., Adams, J., Braddock, S., Campbell, S., Goehring, B., Johnson, J. S., Rood, D. H., Wilcken, K., Hall, B., and Woodward, J. Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene. (2023), The Cryosphere, 17, 1787–1801, doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1787-2023
- Johnson, J. S., Venturelli, R. A., Balco, G., Allen, C. S., Braddock, S., Campbell, S., Goehring, B. M., Hall, B. L Neff, P. D., Nichols, K. A., Rood, D. H., Thomas, E. R., and Woodward, J. Review article: Existing and potential evidence for Holocene grounding line retreat and readvance in Antarctica. (2022), The Cryosphere, 16, 1543–1562, doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-1543-2022
