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Roman Motyka - Recent Publications:

Motyka, RJ, D Lawson, D Finnegan, G Kalli, B Molnia, and A Arendt, 2008. Hubbard Glacier update: another closure of Russell Fiord in the making? Journal of Glaciology, 54(186), 562-564.

Ritchie, JB, CS Lingle, RJ Motyka, M Truffer, 2008. Seasonal fluctuations in the advance of a tidewater glacier and potential causes: Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, USA.  Journal of Glaciology, 54(186), 401-411.

Harrison, WD, RJ Motyka, and six others, 2008. Another surge of Variegated Glacier, Alaska, USA, 2003/04. Journal of Glaciology, 54(184), 192-194.

Wieczorek , G.F.,  E. L. Geist, R. J. Motyka, M. Jakob, 2007. Hazard assessment of the Tidal Inlet landslide and potential subsequent tsunami, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska.  Landslides, DOI 10.1007/s10346-007-0084-1, 11 p.

Motyka, R.J., C.F. Larsen, J.T. Freymueller and K.A. Echelmeyer. 2007.Post Little Ice Age Glacial Rebound in Glacier Bay National Park and Surrounding Areas. Alaska Park Science, 6(1), 36-41.(PDF| 508Kb)

Motyka, R.J., D. Lawson, D. Finnegan, G. Kalli, 2007. Hubbard Glacier update: another closure of Russell Fjord in the making? Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract C41A-0043. 2007.(PDF| 822Kb)

E.S. Boyce, R.J. Motyka and M. Truffer. 2007. Flotation and Retreat of a Lake-Calving Terminus, Mendenhall Glacier, Southeast Alaska. Journal of Glaciology, 53(181), 211-224. (PDF| 768Kb)

Benson, C., R. Motyka, S. McNutt, M. Lüthi, M. Truffer. 2007. Glacier-volcano interactions n the North Crater of Mt Wrangell, Alaska. Annals of Glaciology, 45, 48–57.(PDF| 540Kb)

Motyka, R. J., and M. Truffer. 2007. Hubbard Glacier, Alaska: 2002 closure and outburst of Russell Fjord and postflood conditions at Gilbert Point. J. Geophys. Res., 112, F02004, doi:10.1029/2006JF000475. (PDF| 748Kb)

Larsen, C.F., R.J. Motyka, A.A. Arendt, K.A. Echelmeyer, and P.E. Geissler. 2007. Glacier changes in southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia and contribution to sea level rise. J. Geophys. Res., 112, F01007, doi:10.1029/2006JF000586. (PDF| 1671Kb)

Roman J. Motyka, Martin Truffer, Elsbeth M. Kuriger, and Adam K. Bucki. 2006. Rapid erosion of soft sediments by tidewater glacier advance: Taku Glacier, Alaska, USA. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 33, L24504, doi:10.1029/2006GL028467, (PDF| 292Kb)

Kuriger, M. Truffer, E.M., R.J. Motyka, and AK Bucki. 2006. Episodic reactivation of large scale push moraines in front of the advancing Taku Glacier, Alaska. J. Geoph. Res., 111(F1), doi:10.1029/2005JF000385. (PDF| 1698Kb)

Larsen, CF, RJ Motyka, JT Freymueller, KA Echelmeyer, ER Ivins, 2005. Rapid viscoelastic uplift in southeast Alaska caused by post-Little Ice Age glacial retreat. Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 237, 548-560. (PDF| 1081Kb)

Larsen, CF, RJ Motyka, JT Freymueller, KA Echelmeyer, and ER Ivins, 2004. Rapid uplift of southern Alaska caused by recent ice loss. Geoph. Journ. Internat., 158, 1118-1133.

Motyka, RJ, 2003. Post little ice age uplift at Juneau, Alaska reconstructed from dendrochronology and geomorphology. Quatern. Res., 59, 300-309.

Motyka, RJ and KA Echelmeyer, 2003.Taku Glacier on the move again: Active deformation of proglacial sediments. J. Glaciol., 10(164), 50-59.

Motyka, RJ, L Hunter, K Echelmeyer, and C Connor, 2003. Submarine melting at the terminus of a temperate tidewater glacier, LeConte Glacier, Alaska. Annals Glaciol., 36, 57-65. (PDF| 300Kb)

O'Neel, S, K Echelmeyer, and RJ Motyka, 2003. Short-term variations in calving at a retreating tidewater glacier: LeConte Glacier, Alaska. J. Glaciol., 49(169), 587-598.

Motyka, RJ, S O'Neel, C Connor, and KA Echelmeyer, 2002. 20th Century thinning of Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, and its relationship to climate, lake calving, and glacier run-off. Global Planetary Change, 35(1-2) 93-112.