The publication record develops a mechanics-first account of fracture, friction, deformation, and failure across engineered and natural Earth systems.
Mechanics across systems
Selected fracture and failure papers
These papers trace a common mechanical arc from hydraulic-fracture resonance to wave-driven rifting, rupture speed, and calving-driven ice–ocean coupling.
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing
Nature · 2025
Seafloor fiber sensing resolves how iceberg calving drives Greenland fjord dynamics.
Ocean coupling limits rupture velocity of fastest observed ice shelf rift propagation event
AGU Advances · 2024
A coupled fracture-mechanics and fluid-dynamics explanation for an extraordinary Antarctic rift event.
Ice shelf rift propagation: stability, three-dimensional effects, and the role of marginal weakening
The Cryosphere · 2020
A mechanics-based framework for understanding the stability of Antarctic ice-shelf rifts.
Ice shelf rift propagation and the mechanics of wave-induced fracture
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans · 2018
Quantifies when distant storms, tsunamis, and earthquakes can drive ice-shelf fracture.
Vibrational modes of hydraulic fractures
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth · 2015
Uses resonance to infer the geometry and fluid properties of hydraulic fractures.
Selected chronology
Recent and foundational work
2026
Tidewater and lake-terminating glaciers are systematically thicker
Journal of Glaciology
Mentee-led work quantifying how ice–ocean interactions shape global glacier geometry.
Fibre-optic exploration of the cryosphere
Geophysical Journal International
A synthesis and open training resource for fiber-optic observations throughout the cryosphere.
Creating a comprehensive cryoseismic catalog at Rhonegletscher: a scalable approach using distributed acoustic sensing and machine learning
Machine Learning: Earth
Scalable machine learning for dense, fiber-optic glacier observations.
2025
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing
Nature
Seafloor fiber sensing resolves how iceberg calving drives Greenland fjord dynamics.
Ice shelf evolution combining flow, flexure, and fracture
Journal of Glaciology
A new open modeling framework coupling processes central to ice-shelf stability.
Ice shelf calving due to shear stresses
The Cryosphere
ICESat-2 observations and modeling of the Brunt Ice Shelf calving cycle.
Multiplexed distributed acoustic sensing offshore Central Oregon
Seismological Research Letters
A lead-PI effort advancing large-scale seismic and ocean sensing on submarine cables.
2024
A rockslide-generated tsunami in a Greenland fjord rang Earth for 9 days
Science
Mechanics-based interpretation of a Greenland rockslide-generated tsunami and its extraordinary global seismic signal.
DAS to discharge: using distributed acoustic sensing to infer glacier runoff
Journal of Glaciology
Mentee-led work turning glacier vibrations into measurements of meltwater discharge.
Ocean coupling limits rupture velocity of fastest observed ice shelf rift propagation event
AGU Advances
A coupled fracture-mechanics and fluid-dynamics explanation for an extraordinary Antarctic rift event.
2020
Ice shelf rift propagation: stability, three-dimensional effects, and the role of marginal weakening
The Cryosphere
A mechanics-based framework for understanding the stability of Antarctic ice-shelf rifts.
2018
Ice shelf rift propagation and the mechanics of wave-induced fracture
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Quantifies when distant storms, tsunamis, and earthquakes can drive ice-shelf fracture.
2016
Tremor during ice-stream stick slip
The Cryosphere
Links glacier tremor to repeating earthquakes at the ice–bed interface.
2015
Vibrational modes of hydraulic fractures
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
Uses resonance to infer the geometry and fluid properties of hydraulic fractures.
Complete record
Approximately forty papers published or under review—about thirty from the UW period.
The selected work includes contributions to Nature and Science. The CV provides the complete record through September 2026, including submitted manuscripts, presentations, contribution statements, grants, mentoring, teaching, and service; Google Scholar and ORCID provide continuously updated publication indexes.