Currently In Review and In Press
(Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Underlined)
Blankenship, D.D., D.A.Young, W.B. Moore and J.C. Moore. Radar Imaging of Europa's Subsurface Properties and Processes: The View from Earth. In EUROPA, , edited by Pappalardo, R.T., W. B. McKinnon, and K. Khurana, The University of Arizona Press (in press).
Carter, S.P., D.D. Blankenship, D.A. Young, and J.W. Holt. Identifying the sources and distribution of subglacial water in radar sounding data. Journal of Glaciology (in press).
Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, and D. Blankenship. Satellite gravity measurements show accelerated Antarctic ice loss across the entire continent. Nature Geoscience, (in review).
Jordan, T.A., F. Ferraccioli, D.G. Vaughan, J.W. Holt, H.F. Corr, D.D. Blankenship and T.M Diehl. West Antarctic Rift System unveiled from aerogravity over the Pine Island Glacier Region. GSA Bulletin, (in review).
Published Papers
(Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Underlined; 1,908 Career WoS Citations; h-index = 22)
Carter, S. P, D. D. Blankenship, D. A. Young, M. E. Peters, J. W. Holt, and M. J. Siegert, Dynamic distributed drainage implied by the flow evolution of the 1996-1998 Adventure Trench subglacial outburst flood, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 283, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.03.019, (2009).
Joughin, I., S. Tulaczyk, J.L. Bamber, D. D. Blankenship, J. W. Holt, T. Scambos and D.G. Vaughan. Basal conditions for Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers, West Antarctica determined using satellites and airborne data. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 55, no. 190, pp. 245-257, doi:10.3189/002214309788608705, (2009).
Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, D. Blankenship and D. Young. Antarctic regional ice loss rates from GRACE. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 266, p. 140-148, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.057 (2008). (Citations: 4)
Diehl, T.M., J.W. Holt, D.D. Blankenship, D.A. Young, T Jordan and F. Ferraccioli. First airborne gravity results over the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 9, Q04011, doi:10.1029/2007GC001878, (2008). (Citations: 1)
Filina, I.Y., D.D. Blankenship, M. Thoma, V.V. Lukin, V.N. Masolov and M.K. Sen. New 3D bathymetry and sediment distribution in Lake Vostok: Implication for pre-glacial origin and numerical modeling of the internal processes within the lake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol 276, pp.106-114, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.012, (2008).
Peters, L.E., S. Anandakrishnan, C.W. Holland, H.J. Horgan, D.D. Blankenship and D.G. Voigt. Seismic detection of a subglacial lake near the South Pole, Antarctic. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, no.23, L23501, doi:10.1029/2008GL035704, (2008). (Citations: 1).
Young, D. A., S. D. Kempf, D. D. Blankenship, J. W. Holt and D. L. Morse. New airborne laser altimetry over the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 9, Q06006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001935 (2008).
Carter, S.P., D.D. Blankenship, M.E. Peters, D.A. Young, J.W. Holt and D.L. Morse. Radar based Antarctic subglacial lake classification in Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 8, no. Q03016, 20p.,doi:10.1029/2006GC001408 (2007). (Citations: 3)
Golynsky, A., D. Blankenship, M. Chiappini, D. Damaske, F. Ferraccioli, C. Finn, D. Golynsky, A. Goncharov, T. Ishihara, S. Ivanov, W. Jokat, H. Rae Kim, M. König, V. Masolov, Y. Nogi, M. Sand, M. Studinger, and the ADMAP Working Group. New magnetic anomaly map of East Antarctica and surrounding region. In Cooper A., C. Raymond and the ISAES editorial team (ed’s.), Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World, U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies, USGS OFR-2007-1047, short research paper 050, 5p., doi:10.3133/OF2007-1047.srp050 (2007).
Peters, M.E., D.D. Blankenship, S.P. Carter, S.D. Kempf, D.A. Young and J.W. Holt. Along-track focusing of airborne radar sounding data from West Antarctica for improving basal reflection analysis and layer detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , vol. 45, no. 9, p. 2725-2736, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2007.897416 (2007). (Citations: 2)
Peters, M.E., D.D. Blankenship, D.E. Smith, J.W. Holt and S.D. Kempf. The distribution and classification of bottom crevasses from radar sounding of a large tabular iceberg. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 4, no.1, p.142-146, doi:10.1109/LGRS.2006.887057 (2007). (Citations: 2)
Bingham, R.G., M.J. Siegert, D.A. Young and D.D. Blankenship. Organized flow from the South Pole to the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf: An assessment of balance velocities in interior East Antarctica using radio-echo sounding data. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, no. F03S27, doi: 10.1029/2006JF00056 (2007). (Citations: 1)
Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, D.D. Blankenship and E.R. Ivins. Patagonia Icefield melting observed by Gravity Recovery and Climate Ecperiment (GRACE). Geophysical Research Letters, vol.34 no. L22501, doi:10.1029/2007GL031871 (2007). (Citations: 5)
Filina, I., V. Lukin, V. Masolov and D. Blankenship. Unconsolidated sediments at the bottom of Lake Vostok from seismic data. In Cooper A., C. Raymond and the ISAES editorial team (ed’s.), Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World, U.S. Geological Survey and The National Academies, USGS OFR-2007-1047, short research paper 031, 5p., doi:10.3133/OF2007-1047.srp031 (2007). (Google citations: 1)
Vaughan, D.G., J.W. Holt and D.D. Blankenship. West Antarctic links to sea level estimation. EOS Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, vol. 88, no. 46, p. 485-486, (2007). (Google citations: 6)
Filina, I., D.D. Blankenship, L. Roy, M. Sen, T. Richter and J. Holt. Inversion of airborne gravity data acquired over subglacial lakes in East Antarctica. In Futterer, D.K., D. Damaske,G. Kleinschmidt, H. Miller and F. Tessensohn, ed’s. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, p. 129-134 (2006). (Google citations: 3)
Holt, J.W., D.D. Blankenship, D.L. Morse, D.A. Young, M.E. Peters, S.D. Kempf, T.G. Richter, D.G. Vaughan and H.F.J. Corr. New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Thwaites and Smith glacier catchments. Geophysical Research Letters, vol.33, no. L09502, doi:10.1029/2005GL025561 (2006) (Citations: 18)
Lawver, L.A., D.D. Blankenship and L.M. Gahagan. East Antarctica: Onshore-offshore uncertainties from cryospheric evolution. Terra Antarctica, vol. 12, p. 177-186 (2006).
Chen, J,L, C.R. Wilson, D.D. Blankenship and B.D. Tapley, Antarctic mass rates from GRACE. Geophysical Research Letters, vol.33, no. L11502, doi:10.1029/2006GL026369 (2006). (Citations: 23)
Holt, J.W., T.G. Richter, S.D. Kempf, D.L. Morse and D.D. Blankenship. Airborne gravity over Lake Vostok and adjacent highlands, East Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, vol. 7, no. Q11012, doi:10.1029/2005GC001177 (2006). (Citations: 2)
Holt, J.W., M.E. Peters, D.L. Morse, D.D. Blankenship, L.E. Lindzey, J.L. Kavanaugh and K.M. Kuffey, Identifying and characterizing subsurface echoes in airborne radar sounding data from a high-clutter environment in Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, June 19-22, 2006, Columbus, Ohio, 5 pp (2006). (Google citations: 1)
Holt, J.W., M.E. Peters, S.D. Kempf, D.L. Morse and D.D. Blankenship. Echo source discrimination in single-pass airborne radar sounding data from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Implications for orbital sounding of Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 111, no. E06S24 (2006). (Citations: 3)
Vaughan, D.G., H.F.J. Corr, F. Ferraccioli, N. Frearson. A. O'Hare, D. Mach, J.W. Holt, D.D. Blankenship, D.L. Morse and D.A. Young, New boundary conditions for the West Antarctic ice sheet: Subglacial topography beneath Pine Island Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters vol.33,no. L09501, doi:10.1029/2004F000202 (2006). (Citations: 22)
Davis, M.B. and D.D. Blankenship. Geology of the Scott-Reedy Glaciers area, southern Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, Map and Chart Series, The Geological Society of America, , MCH093 (2005).
Peters, M.E., D.D. Blankenship and D.L. Morse. Analysis techniques for coherent airborne radar sounding: Application to West Antarctic ice streams. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 110, B06303, p. 1-17 (2005). (Citations: 18)
Roy, L., M.K. Sen, D.D. Blankenship, P.L. Stoffa and T.G. Richter. 3-D inversion of airborne gravity over Lake Vostok, East Antarctica. Geophysics, vol. 70, no. 1, p. J1-J12 (2005). (Citations: 6)
Siegert, M.J., S.P. Carter, I. Tabacco, S. Popov and D.D. Blankenship. A revised inventory of subglacial lakes. Antarctic Science , vol. 17, no. 3, p. 453-460 (2005). (Citations: 34)
Seigert, M.J., B. Welch, D. Morse, A. Vieli, D.D. Blankenship, I. Joughin, E.C. King, G.J.M.C. Leysinger Vieli, A.J. Payne and R. Jacobel. Ice flow direction change in interior West Antarctica. Science, vol. 305, no. 5692, p. 1948-1951 (2004). (Citations: 7)
Behrendt, J.C., D.D. Blankenship, D.L. Morse and R.E. Bell. Shallow-source aeromagnetic anomalies observed over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet compared with coincident bed topography from radar ice sounding-new evidence for glacial “removal” of subglacially erupted late Cenozoic rift-related volcanic edifices. Global and Planetary Change, vol. 42, p. 177-193 (2004). (Citations: 10)
Tsoflias, G.P., J. Van Gestel, P.L. Stoffa, D.D. Blankenship and M. Sen. Vertical fracture detection by exploiting the polarization properties of ground-penetrating radar signals. Geophysics, vol. 69, no. 3, p. 803-810, (2004). (Citations: 10)
Studinger, M., R.E. Bell, W.R. Buck G.D. Karner and D.D. Blankenship. Sub-ice geology inland of the Transantarctic Mountains in light of new aerogeophysical data. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 220, no. 3-4, p. 391-408, (2004). (Citations: 22)
Studinger, M., R.E. Bell, G.D. Karner, A.A. Tikku, J.W. Holt, D.L. Morse, T.G. Richter, S.D. Kempf, M.E. Peters, D.D. Blankenship, R.E. Sweeney and V. Rystrom. Ice cover, landscape setting, and geological framework of Lake Vostok, East Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 205, no. 3-4, p. 195-210 (2003). (Citations: 45)
Behrendt, J. C., D. D. Blankenship, D. L. Morse, C. A. Finn, R. E. Bell. Comparison of subglacial volcanic features beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet interpreted from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding with similar, but more accessible, structures in Iceland. In Smellie, J.L. and M.G. Chapman (eds.), Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars. Geological Society Special Publication 202, Geological Society Publishing House, Bath, U.K. 432 pp. (2002).
Behrendt, J. C., D. D. Blankenship, D. L. Morse, R. E. Bell. Removal of subglacially erupted volcanic edifices beneath the divide of the West Antarctic ice sheet interpreted from aeromagnetic and radar ice sounding. In Gamble J.A., D.N.B Skinner, S. Henrys and R. Lynch, eds., Antarctica at the Close of a Millennium, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, vol. 35, p. 579-587 (2002). (Google citations: 3)
Morse, D. L., D. D. Blankenship, E. D. Waddington and T. A. Neumann. A site for deep ice coring in West Antarctica: Results from aerogeophysical surveys and thermo-kinematic modeling. Annals of Glaciology, vol. 35, p. 36-44 (2002). (Citations: 14)
Price S. F., R. A. Bindschadler, C. L. Hulbe and D. D. Blankenship. Force balance along an inland tributary and onset to ice stream D, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 48, no. 160, p. 20-30 (2002). (Citations: 18)
Studinger, M., R. E. Bell, C. A. Finn and D. D. Blankenship. Mesozoic and Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the West Antarctic rift system from high-resolution airborne geophysical mapping. In Gamble J.A., D.N.B Skinner, S. Henrys and R. Lynch, eds., Antarctica at the Close of a Millennium, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin, vol. 35, p. 563-569 (2002). (Google citations: 7)
Blankenship, D. D., D. L. Morse, C. A. Finn, R. E. Bell, M. E. Peters, S. D. Kempf, S. M. Hodge, M. Studinger, J. C. Behrendt, and J. M. Brozena. Geological controls on the initiation of rapid basal motion for West Antarctic ice streams: A geophysical perspective including new airborne radar sounding and laser altimetry results. In Alley, R. B. and R. A. Bindschadler eds., The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and Environment, American Geophysical Union, p. 105-121 (2001). (Google citations: 10)
Lythe, M. B., D. G. Vaughan and the BEDMAP Consortium. BEDMAP: a new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 106, no. B6, p. 11335-11351 (2001). (Citations: 153)
Richter, T. G., J. W. Holt, D. D. Blankenship. Airborne gravity over East Antarctica. KIS 2001: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Kinematic Systems in Geodesy, Geomatics and Navigation, Banff, Alberta, p. 576-585 (2001). (Google citations: 2)
Studinger, M., R. E. Bell, D. D. Blankenship, C. A. Finn, R. A. Arko, D. L. Morse and I. Joughin. Subglacial sediments: A widespread geological template for ice flow in West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 28, no. 18, p. 3493-3496 (2001). (Citations: 41)
Bell, R. E., V. A. Childers, R. A. Arko, D. D. Blankenship, and J. M. Brozena. Airborne gravity and precise positioning for geologic applications. Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 104, no. B7, p. 15,281-15,292 (1999). (Citations: 24)
Sweeney, R. E., C. A. Finn, D. D. Blankenship, R. E. Bell and J. C. Behrendt. Central West Antarctica aeromagnetic data: a web site for distribution of data and maps. Open File Report 99-420, U. S. Geological Survey, (1999).
Thorsteinsson, T., E. D. Waddington, K. C. Taylor, R. B. Alley and D. D. Blankenship. Strain-rate enhancement at Dye 3, Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 45, no. 150, p. 338-345 (1999). (Citations: 32)
Anandakrishnan, S., D.D. Blankenship, R.B. Alley and P.L. Stoffa. Influence of subglacial geology on the position of a West Antarctic ice stream from seismic observations. Nature, vol. 394, no. 6688, p. 62-65 (1998). (Citations: 78)
Bell, R.E., D.D. Blankenship, C.A. Finn, D.L. Morse, T.A. Scambos, J.M. Brozena and S.M. Hodge. Influence of subglacial geology on the onset of a West Antarctic ice stream from aerogeophysical observations. Nature, vol. 394, no. 6688, p. 58-62 (1998). (Citations: 82)
Behrendt, J.C., C.A. Finn, D.D. Blankenship and R.E. Bell. Aeromagnetic evidence for a volcanic caldera(?) complex beneath the divide of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 25, no. 23, p. 4385-4388 (1998). (Citations: 12)
Behrendt, J.C., D.D. Blankenship, D. Damaske, A.K. Cooper, C. Finn and R.E. Bell. Geophysical evidence for Late Cenozoic subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and additional speculation as to its origin. In Rice, C.A., ed., The Antarctic Region: Geological Evolution and Processes, Terra Antarctica Publication, Siena, p. 539-546 (1997). (Google citations: 3)
Behrendt, J.C., R. Saltus, D. Damaske, A. McCafferty, C.A. Finn, D.D. Blankenship and R.E. Bell. Patterns of late Cenozoic volcanic and tectonic activity in the West Antarctic rift system revealed by aeromagnetic surveys. Tectonics, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 660-676 (1996). (Citations: 40)
Bindschadler, R., P. Vornberger, D. Blankenship, T. Scambos and R. Jacobel. Surface velocity and mass balance of ice streams D and E, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, vol. 42, no. 142, p. 461-475 (1996). (Citations: 42)