Martin Jeffries
Research Professor of Geophysics at Geophysical Institute in Fairbanks, Alaska
(907) 474-5257 martin.jeffries@gi.alaska.edu
Team leader of Sea Ice IT
Agency: DOD
Research area: 1. Sea ice and marine ecosystems
- Agencies are participating in cooperative sea ice efforts
- To date, ten agencies with research responsibilities relates to sea ice have participated development of a framework of observations, research and modeling to support forecasting and prediction of sea…
- Topics Sea ice, MIZOPEX, Chuckchi, cooperative efforts, report
- Developing partnerships across the board
- Discussions are continuing on how to open the Sea Ice IT meetings to a broader community and an effort is underway to identify non-Federal individuals and organizations from whom we can learn and develop partnerships.
- Topics Partners, Sea Ice IT
- "Seasonal-to-Decadal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice: Challenges and Strategies" published
- This publication of this National Academy of Sciences report was supported by the intelligence community, NASA and ONR.
- Topics Sea ice, Predictions
- Sea ice prediction network funded
- NSF, ONR, NASA and DOE have funded a sea ice prediction network, which also includes the "Sea Ice Demonstration" project of the inter-agency "Earth System Prediction Capability" project.
- Topics Sea ice, Predictions
- Marginal ice zone observations and process experiment data released
- In summer 2013, the NASA/NOAA "Marginal Ice Zone Observations and Process Experiment (MIZOPEX)" main field experiment was conducted with a variety of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) over the Beaufort Sea continental shelf immediately north of Alaska.
- Topics Marginal ice zone, UAS, Beaufort Sea
- Marginal ice zone dynamics pilot uses declassified high resolution visible band imaging and synthetic aperture radar
- The ONR "Emerging Dynamics of the Marginal Ice Zone" project conducted a pilot project, in partnership with the intelligence community, that involved declassified high resolution visible band imaging…
- Topics Marginal ice zone, visible band imaging
- 2014 ONR marginal ice zone project adds NASA (Operation IceBridge)
- The main field experiment of the ONR marginal ice zone project, scheduled for March-October 2014 in the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin, will also involve NASA (Operation IceBridge), the intelligence community and, subject to availability, NOAA UAS assets.
- Topics Marginal ice zone, Beufort Sea, Canada Basin
Bio
Dr. Jeffries is currently on leave from UAF and working at the Office of Naval Research, where he is a Program Officer and Arctic Science Advisor in the Ocean, Atmosphere and Space Research Division, Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department. Prior to going to ONR, Dr. Jeffries spent four years (2006–2010) at NSF, where he was the Program Director for the Arctic Observing Network in the Division of Arctic Sciences, Office of Polar Programs. His cryospheric processes research has taken him to both the Arctic and the Antarctic to investigate ice shelves, icebergs, sea ice and lake ice. With Kim Morris, Dr. Jeffries created the very successful Alaska Lake Ice and Snow Observatory Network (ALISON), an integrated research and education project in which K–12 teachers and students were his scientific partners in an investigation of lake ice growth, snow accumulation and conductive heat flux in Alaska.
Topics of interest
- Sea Ice (22)
- Permafrost (19)
- Snow (14)
- Lake Ice (13)
- Alaska (9)