Dr Mark Tamisiea

Research Interests

Response of the oceans and solid Earth due to changes in surface loads to

• Gain insight into both the sources and magnitude of sea level rise
• Study the mechanical properties of the lithosphere and mantle

Examples include

1. Changes in sea level affected by melting glaciers and ice sheets (e.g., Alaska, Greenland, Antarctica)
2. Continuing adjustment of the Earth system to the late Pleistocene ice sheets
3. Sea level variations and crustal motion cause by atmospheric and hydrological loading

Publications

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, and J. L. Davis, "GRACE Gravity Data Constrain Ancient Ice Geometries and Continental Dynamics over Laurentia", Science, 316, 881-883, 2007. Crowley, J. W., J. X. Mitrovica, R. C. Bailey, M. E. Tamisiea and J. L. Davis, "Annual variations in water storage and precipitation in the Amazon Basin", J. Geodesy, doi:10.1007/s00190-007-0153-1, 2007.

Chambers, D. P., M. E. Tamisiea, R. S. Nerem and J. C. Ries, "Effects of ice melting on GRACE observations of ocean mass trends", Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L05610, doi:10.1029/2006GL029171, 2007.

Kendall, R. A., K. Latychev, J. X. Mitrovica, J. E. Davis and M. E. Tamisiea, "Decontami-nating tide gauge records for the influence of glacial isostatic adjustment: The potential impact of 3-D Earth structure", Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L24318, doi:10.1029/2006GL028448, 2006.

Crowley, J. W., J. X. Mitrovica, R. C. Bailey, M. E. Tamisiea and J. L. Davis, "Land water storage within the Congo Basin inferred from GRACE satellite gravity data", Geo-phys.Res. Lett., 33, L19402, doi:10.1029/2006GL027070, 2006.

Mitrovica, J. X., J. Wahr, I. Matsuyama, A. Paulson, and M. E. Tamisiea, "Reanalysis of an-cient eclipse, astronomic and geodetic data: A possible route to resolving the enigma of global sea level rise", Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 243, 390-399, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.12.029, 2006.

Latychev, K., J. X. Mitrovica, M. E. Tamisiea, J. Tromp, C. C. Christara and R. Moucha, "GIA-induced secular variations in the Earth's long wavelength gravity field: Influence of 3-D viscosity variations", Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 240, 322-327, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.10.001, 2005.

Tamisiea, M. E., E. W. Leuliette, J. L. Davis, and J. X. Mitrovica, "Constraining hydrologi-cal and cryospheric mass flux in southeastern Alaska using space-based gravity meas-urements", Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20501, doi:10.1029:2005GL023961, 2005.

Latychev, K., J. X. Mitrovica, J. Tromp, M. E. Tamisiea, D. Komatitsch and C.C. Christara, "Glacial isostatic adjustment on 3-D Earth models: A finite volume formulation", Geo-phys. J. Int., 161, 421-444, 2005.

Latychev, K., J. X. Mitrovica, M. E. Tamisiea, J. Tromp and R. Moucha, "Influence of lithospheric thickness variations on 3-D crustal velocities due to the glacial isostatic ad-justment", Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L01304, doi:10.1029/2004GL021454, 2005.

Davis, J. L., P. Elósegui, J. X. Mitrovica, and M. E. Tamisiea, "Climate-driven deformation of the solid earth from GRACE and GPS", Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24605, doi:10.1029/2004GL021435, 2004.

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, and J. L. Davis, "A method for detecting rapid mass flux of small glaciers using local sea-level variations", Earth Planet. Sci.. Lett., 213, 447-485, 2003.

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, J. L. Davis and G. A. Milne, "Long wavelength sea level and solid surface perturbations driven by polar ice mass variations: Fingerprinting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet flux", Space Science Reviews, 108, 81-93, 2003.

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, J. Tromp and G. A. Milne, "Present day secular variations in the low-degree harmonics of the geopotential: Sensitivity analysis on spherically symmetric earth models", J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JB000696, 2002.

Tamisiea, M. E., and J. M. Wahr, "Phase transitions and heat conduction in post-glacial re-bound", Geophys. J. Int., 149, 423-440, 2002.

Tamisiea, M. E., and J. M. Wahr, "Phase transitions and short timescale sinusoidal motions", Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 198, 459-470, 2002.

Clark, P. U., J. X. Mitrovica, G. A. Milne and M. E. Tamisiea, "Sea-level fingerprinting as a direct test for the source of melt water pulse IA", Science, 295, 2438-2441, 2002.

Tamisiea, M. E., J. X. Mitrovica, G. A. Milne and J. L. Davis, "Global geoid and sea-level changes due to present-day ice mass fluctuations", J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30,849-30,864, 2001.

Mitrovica, J. X., M. E. Tamisiea, J. L. Davis and G. A. Milne, "Recent mass balance of polar ice sheets inferred from patterns of global sea-level change", Nature, 409, 1026-1029, 2001.