PUBLICATIONS

Borthwick, L., A. Muto, S. Anandakrishnan, K. Tinto, R. Agnew, A. Brisbourne, R. Schlegel, S. Killingbeck, B. Kulessa, R. Alley, A. Willet, and S. Melton (2025). Rift‐related sedimentary basin and deeper‐seated mafic intrusions modeled beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Influence on glacier dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130, e2025JB031716, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB031716

Banerjee, D., D.A. Lilien, M. Truffer, A. Luckman, C.T. Wild, E.C. Pettit, T.A. Scambos, A. Muto, and K.E. Alley (2025) Evolution of Shear-zone Fractures Presages the Disintegration of Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, e2025JF008352, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JF008352

Borthwick, L., A. Muto, and K. Tinto (2025). Gravity Modelling of Ice Thickness and Valley Geometry on Taku Glacier (T’aakú Kwáan Sít’i), Alaska, Journal of Glaciology, 71, e13, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.84

Scambos, T.A., T. White, B. Walling, M. Truffer, G. Collao-Barrios, C Kratt, S. Tyler, E.C. Pettit, C.T. Wild, S. Arora, S. Edwards, R. Fotherby, C. Meha, J., Soltys, E. Tomlinson, R. Weatherby, R. Ross, A. Wåhlin, T.S. Toddo, K. Alley, and A. Muto (2025). AMIGOS-3 multi-sensor stations and theclimate, ice and ocean conditions at Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf during 2020–22, Journal of Glaciology, 71, e60, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.96

Wild, C.T., S.B. Kachuck, A. Luckman, K.E. Alley, M.A. Sharp, H. Smith, S.W. Tyler, C. Kratt, T.S. Dotto, D. Price, K.W. Nicholls, S.L. Bevan, G. Gollao-Barrios, A. Muto, M. Truffer, T.A. Scambos, K.J. Heywood, E.C. Pettit and the TARSAN team (2024). Rift propagation signals the last act of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf despite low basal melt rates, Journal of Glaciology, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.64

Wåhlin, A., K.E. Alley, C. Begeman, Ø. Hegrenæs, X. Yuan, A.G.C. Graham, K. Hogan, P.E.D. Davis, T.S. Dotto, C. Eayrs, R.A. Hall, D.M. Holland, T.Wan. Kim, R.D. Larter, L. Ling, A. Muto, E.C. Pettit, B.E. Schmidt, T. Snow, F. Stedt, P.M. Washam, S. Wahlgren, C. Wild, J. Wellner, Y. Zheng, K.J. Heywood (2024). Swirls and scoops: Ice base melt revealed by multibeam imagery of an Antarctic ice shelf, Science Advances, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn9188

Alley, K.E., R.B. Alley, A.D. Crawford, N. Ochwat, C.T. Wild, J. Marson, T. Snow, A. Muto, E.C. Pettit, S.F. Child, M. Truffer, G. Gollao-Barrios, and T.A. Scambos (2024). Evolution of sub-ice-shelf channels reveals changes in ocean-driven melt in West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.20

Hoffman, A.O., N. Holschuh, M. Mueller, J. Paden, A. Muto, G. Ariho, C. Brigham, J.E. Christian, L. Davidge, E. Heitmann, B. Hills, A. Horlings, S. Morey, G. O’Connor, T.J. Fudge, E.J. Steig, K. Christianson (2023). Scars of tectonism promote ice-sheet nucleation from Hercules Dome into West Antarctica, Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01265-5

Alley, R.B., N. Holschuh, B. Parizek, L.K. Zoet, K. Riverman, A. Muto, K. Christianson, E. Clyne, S. Anandakrishnan, and N.T. Stevens (2023). GHOSTly flute music: drumlins, moats and the bed of Thwaites Glacier, Annals of Glaciology, https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2023.43

Dotto, T.S., K.J. Heywood, R.A. Hall, T.A. Scambos, Y. Zheng, Y. Nakayama, S. Hyogo, T. Snow, A.K. Wåhlin, C. Wild, M. Truffer, A. Muto, K.E. Alley, L. Boehme, G.A. Bortolotto, S.W. Tyler, and E.C. Pettit (2022). Ocean variability beneath Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf driven by the Pine Island Bay Gyre strength, Nature Communications,13, 7840, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35499-5

Wild, C.T., K.E. Alley, A. Muto, M. Truffer, T.A. Scambos, and E.C. Pettit (2022). Weakening of the pinning point buttressing Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, The Cryosphere, 16, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-397-2022

Alley, K.E., C.T. Wild, A. Luckman, T.A. Scambos, M. Truffer, E.C. Pettit, A. Muto, B. Wallin, M. Klinger, T. Sutterley, S.F. Child, C. Hulen, J.T.M. Lenaerts, M. Maclennan, E. Keenan, and Devon Dunmire (2021). Two decades of dynamic change and progressive destabilization on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, The Cryosphere, 15, 5187–5203, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-5187-2021.

Alley, R.B., N. Holschuh, D.R. MacAyeal, B.R. Parizek, L. Zoet, K. Riverman, A. Muto, K. Christianson, E. Clyne, S. Anandakrishnan, N. Stevens, and GHOST Collaboration (2021). Bedforms of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Character and Origin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126, e2021JF006339. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006339.4.

Horgan, H. J., L. van Haastrecht, R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, K. Christianson, and A. Muto (2021). Grounding zone subglacial properties from calibrated active source seismic methods. The Cryosphere, 15, 1863–1880, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-1863-2021.

Clyne, E.R., S. Anandakrishnan, A. Muto, R.B. Alley, and D.E. Voigt (2020), Interpretation of topography and bed properties beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica using seismic reflection methods, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 550, 116543, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116543.

Jordan, T.A., D. Porter, K. Tinto, R. Millan, A. Muto, K. Hogan, R.D. Larter, A.G.C. Graham, and J.D. Paden (2020), New gravity-derived bathymetry for the Thwaites, Crosson, and Dotson ice shelves revealing two ice shelf populations, The Cryosphere, 14, 2869-2882, doi: 10.5194/tc-14-2869-2020.

Muto, A., R.B. Alley, B.R. Parizek, S. Anandakrishnan (2019), Bed-type variability and till (dis)continuity beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology, 60(80), 1-9, doi: 10.1017/aog.2019.32.

Muto, A., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, H.J. Horgan, B.R. Parizek, S. Koellner, K. Christianson, and N. Holschuh (2019), Relating bed character and subglacial morphology using seismic data from Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 507, 199-206, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.008.

Koellner, S., B.R. Parizek, R.B. Alley, A. Muto, and N. Holschuh (2019), The impact of spatially-variable basal properties on outlet glacier flow, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 515, 200–208, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.026.

Zoet, L.K., A. Muto, J.E. Rawling III, and J.W. Attig (2019), The effects of tunnel channel formation on the Green Bay Lobe, Wisconsin, USA, Gemorphology, 324, 36-47, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.021.

Alley, R. B., D. Pollard, B.R. Parizek, S. Anandakrishnan, M. Pourpoint, N.T. Stevens, J.A. MacGregor, K. Christianson, A. Muto, and N. Holschuh (2019), Possible role for tectonics in the evolving stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124, 97–115, doi: 10.1029/ 2018JF004714.

Riverman, K.L., R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, K. Christianson, N.D. Holschuh, B. Medley, A. Muto, and L.E. Peters (2019), Enhanced firn densification in high‐accumulation shear margins of the NE Greenland Ice Stream, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124, 365–382, doi: 10.1029/2017JF00460.

Scambos, T.A., G.G. Campbell, A. Pope, T. Haran, A. Muto, M. Lazzara, C.H. Reijmer, and M.R. van den Broeke (2018), Ultralow surface temperatures in East Antarctica from satellite thermal infrared mapping: The coldest places on Earth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 6124–6133, doi:10.1029/ 2018GL078133.

Fegyveresi, J.M., R.B. Alley, A. Muto, A.J. Orsi, and M.K. Spencer (2018), Surface formation, preservation, and history of low-porosity crusts at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica, The Crysopshere, 12, 325-341, doi: 10.5194/tc-12-325-2018.

Christie, F.D.W., R.G. Bingham, N. Gourmelen, S.F.B. Tett, and A. Muto (2016), Four-decade record of pervasive grounding line retreat along the Bellingshausen margin of West Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett.43, doi:10.1002/2016GL068972.

Muto, A., L.E. Peters, K. Gohl, I. Sasgen, R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan and K.L. Riverman (2016), Subglacial bathymetry and sediment distribution beneath Pine Island Glacier ice shelf modeled using aerogravity and in situ geophysical data: New results, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 63-75, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.037.

Alley, R.B., S. Anandakrishnan, K. Christianson, H.J. Horgan, A. Muto, B.R. Parizek, D. Pollard and R.T. Walker (2015), Oceanic Forcing of ice-sheet retreat: West Antarctica and more, The Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 43, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060614-105344.

Vallelonga, P., K. Christianson, R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, J.E.M. Christian, D. Dahl-Jensen, V. Gkinis, C. Holme, R.W. Jacobel, N.B. Karlsson, B.A. Keisling, S. Kipfstuhl, H.A. Kjær1, M.E.L. Kristensen, A. Muto, L.E. Peters, T. Popp, K.L. Riverman, A.M. Svensson, C. Tibulea1, B.M. Vinther, Y. Weng, and M. Winstrup (2014), Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS), The Cryosphere, 8, 1275-1287, doi: 10.5194/tc-8-1275-2014.

Christianson, K., L.E. Peters, R.B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, R.W. Jacobel, K.L. Riverman, A. Muto and B.A. Keisling (2014), Dilatant till facilitates ice-stream flow in northeast Greenland, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 401, 57-69, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.060.

Keisling, B.A., K. Christianson, R.B. Alley, L.E. Peters, J.E.M. Christian, S. Anandakrishnan, K.L. Riverman, A. Muto and R.W. Jacobel (2014), Basal conditions and ice dynamics inferred from radar-derived internal stratigraphy of the northeast Greenland ice stream, Annals of Glaciology, 55(67), 127-137, doi: 10.3189/2014AoG67A090.

Muto, A., K. Christianson, H.J. Horgan, S. Anandakrishnan and R.B. Alley (2013), Bathymetry and geological structures beneath the Ross Ice Shelf at the mouth of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica, modeled from ground-based gravity measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 118, 4535-4546, doi: 10.1002/jgrb.50315.

Christianson, K., B.R. Parizek, R.B. Alley, H.J. Horgan, R.W. Jacobel, S. Anandakrishnan, B.J. Kiesling, B.D. Craig and A. Muto (2013), Ice sheet grounding zone stabilization due to till compaction, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, doi: 10.1002/2013GL057447.

Horgan, H.J., R.B. Alley, K. Christianson, R.W. Jacobel, S. Anandakrishnan, A. Muto, L.H. Beem and M.R. Siegfried (2013), Estuaries beneath ice sheets, Geology, 41, 1159-1162, doi: 10.1130/G34654.1.

McGrath, D., W. Colgan, N. Bayou, A. Muto and K Steffen (2013), Recent warming at Summit, Greenland: Global context and implications, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, doi: 10.1002/grl.50456.

Muto, A., S. Anandakrishnan and R.B. Alley (2013), Subglacial bathymetry beneath the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf from airborne gravity, constrained by autonomous underwater vehicle data, Annals of Glaciology, 54(64), 27-32, doi: 10.3189/2013AoG64A110.

Zagorodnov, V., O. Nagornov, T.A. Scambos, A. Muto, E. Mosley-Thompson, E.C. Pettit, and S. Tyuflin (2012), Borehole temperatures reveal details of 20th century warming at Bruce Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula, The Cryosphere, 6, 675-686, doi: 10.5194/tc-6-675-2012.

Muto, A., T.A. Scambos, K. Steffen, A.G. Slater, G.D. Clow (2011), Recent surface temperature trends in the interior of East Antarctica from firn thermal profiles, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2011GL048086.

Langley, K., J. Kohler, K. Matsuoka, A. Sinisalo, T. Scambos, T. Nuemann, A. Muto, J.-G. Winther and M. Albert (2011), Recovery Lakes, East Antarctica: radar assessment of sub-glacial water extent, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L05501, doi: 10.1029/2010GL046094.

Massom, R.A., A. Worby, V. Lytle, T. Markus, I. Allison, T. Scambos, H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama, T. Haran, J. C. Comiso, A. Pfaffling, T. Tamura, A. Muto, P. Kanagaratnam, B. Giles, N. Young, G. Hyland and E. Key (2006), ARISE (Antarctic Remote Ice Sensing Experiment) in the East 2003: validation of satellite-derived sea-ice data products, Annals of Glaciology., 44, 288-296. doi: 10.3189/172756406781811268.

Tamura, T., K.I. Ohshima, H. Enomoto, K. Tateyama, A. Muto, S. Ushio and R.A. Massom (2006), Estimation of thin sea-ice thickness from NOAA AVHRR data in a polynya off the Wilkes Land coast, East Antarctica, Annals of Glaciology., 44, 269-274, doi: 10.3189/172756406781811745