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Christopher M. Polashenski

Adjunct Associate Professor of Engineering

Research Geophysicist, US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory CRREL

christopher.m.polashenski@dartmouth.edu

Professor Polashenski '07 Th'07 Th'11 takes an ice core from a melt pond on the sea ice north of Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Donald Perovich.)

Research Interests

Sea ice geophysics; the interaction of sunlight with ice and snow; the Arctic system and climate change

Education

AB, Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth 2007
BE, Environmental Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 2007
PhD, Materials Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 2011

Awards

DISCCRS Scholar Award, 2012

Selected Publications

Petrich, C., H. Eicken, C.M. Polashenski, M. Sturm, J.P. Harbeck, D.K. Perovich, and D.C. Finnegan (2012), Snow dunes: A controlling factor of melt pond distribution on Arctic sea ice, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C09029, doi:10.1029/2012JC008192, 10 pg.
Arrigo, K., D. Perovich, R. Pickart, Z. Brown, G. van Dijken, K. Lowry, M. Mills, M. Palmer, W. Balch, F. Bahr, N. Bates, C. Benitez-Nelson, B. Bowler, E. Brownlee, J. Ehn, K. Frey, R. Garley, S. Laney, L. Lubelczyk, J. Mathis, A. Matsuoka, B.G. Mitchell, G.W.K. Moore, E. Ortega-Retuerta, S. Pal, C. Polashenski, R. Reynolds, Schieber, H. Sosik, M. Stephens, J. Swift (2012), Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice, Science, 336/6087, p. 1408 DOI: 10.1126/science.1215065, 2 pg.
Perovich, D.K. and C. Polashenski (2012), Albedo evolution of seasonal Arctic sea ice, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L08501, doi:10:1029/2012GL051432, 6pg.
Polashenski, C., D.K. Perovich, and Z. Courville (2012), The Mechanisms of Sea Ice Melt Pond Formation and Evolution, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C1, doi:10.1029/2011JC007231, 23 pg.
Polashenski, C., D.K. Perovich, J.A. Richter-Menge, B. Elder, (2011) Seasonal Ice Mass-Balance Buoys: Adapting tools to the changing Arctic. Ann. Glaciol., 52 (57), 9 pg.
Perovich, D.K., J.M. Richter-Menge, K.F. Jones, B. Light, B.C. Elder, C. Polashenski, D. Laroche, T. Markus, and R. Lindsay (2011), Arctic sea-ice melt in 2008 and the role of solar heating, Ann. Glaciol., 52 (57), 5 pg.
Perovich, D.K., T.C. Grenfell, B. Light, B.C. Elder, J. Harbeck, C. Polashenski, W.B. Tucker, and C. Stelmach (2009), Transpolar Observations of the Morphological Properties of Arctic Sea Ice, J. Geophys. Res. 114, C00A04, doi:10.1029/2008JC004892, 17 pg.