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Benjamin Holt

Education
  • B.A., Human Biology and Anthropology, Stanford University (1972)
  • M.S., Physical Oceanography, Dept. of Geology, University of Southern California (1988)
Research Interests
  • Investigations into the state of polar sea ice to identify possible changes due to climate change, through derivation of geophysical measurements using microwave remote sensing.
  • Coastal oceanography circulation and its effects on biological productivity and pollutants using multi-sensor remote sensing.
  • Development of radar instrumentation to measure sea ice thickness and ocean surface currents from airborne and space borne platforms.
Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1978-Present)
    • Oceanography Element (1982-Present)
    • Member Technical Staff (1978-Present)
Selected Publications
  1. Kwok, R., B. Panzer, C. Leuschen, S. Pang, T. Markus, B. Holt, and S. Gogineni, Airborne surveys of snow depth over Arctic sea ice, J. Geophysical Research Oceans, 116, C11018, doi:10.1029/2011JC007371, 2011.
  2. Jones, C. E., B, Minchew, B. Holt, and S. Hensley, Studies of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with the UAVSAR radar, AGU Monograph on Deepwater Horizon Spill, 2011, in press.
  3. Minchew, B., C. Jones, and B. Holt, Polarimetric L-band SAR signatures of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, IEEE Trans. Geoscience Remote Sensing, 2011, accepted.
  4. Leifer, I., B. Lehr, D. Simecek-Beatty, E. Bradley, R. Clark, P. Dennison, Y. Hu, S. Matheson, C. Jones, B. Holt, M. Reif, D. Roberts, J. Svejkovsky, G. Swayze, J. Wozencraft, State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remotesensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 2011, resubmitted.
  5. McKinney, P., B. Holt, B. White, and K. Matsumoto, Small eddies observed in Lake Superior with SAR imagery, J. Geophysical Research, submitted 2011.
  6. Zheng, Q., B. Holt, X. Li, X. Liu, and Q. Zhao, Internal vortex trains induced by seamounts: Interpretation of Seasat SAR imagery features in the Gulf Streamregion, J. Geophysical Research Oceans, 2011, submitted.
  7. Freeman, A., V. Zlotnicki, T. Liu, B. Holt, R. Kwok, S. Yueh, J. Vazquez, D.Siegel, and G. Lagerloef, Ocean Measurements from Space in 2025, Oceanography, 23(4), 144-161, 2010.
  8. Marmorino, G. O., B. Holt, M. J. Molemaker, P. M. DiGiacomo, M. A. Sletten, Airborne synthetic aperture radar observations of 'spiral eddy' slick patterns in the Southern California Bight, J. Geophysical Research Oceans, 115, C05010, doi:10.1029/2009JC005863, 2010.
  9. Holt, B., P. Kanagaratnam, P. Gogineni, V. Ramasami, A. Mahoney, V. Lytle, Sea ice thickness measurements by a wideband surface penetrating radar: First results, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 55, 33-46, 2009.
  10. Martin, S., R. Drucker, R. Kwok, and B. Holt, Improvements in the estimates of ice thickness and production in the Chukchi Sea polynyas derived from AMSR-E, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L05505, doi:10.1029/2004GL022013, 2005.
  11. Evans, D., W. Alpers, A. Cazenave C. Elachi, T. Farr, D. Glackin, B. Holt, L. Jones, W. T. Liu, W. McCandless, Y. Menard, R. Moore, E. Njoku, Seasat-A 25 Year Legacy of Success, Remote Sensing of the Environment, 94, 384-404, 2005.
  12. Holt, B., SAR imaging of the ocean surface, in C. R. Jackson and J. R. Apel (eds) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Marine User's Manual, NOAA NESDIS Office of Research and Applications, Washington DC, pp. 25-79, 2004.
  13. Vachon, P. W., F. M. Monaldo, B. Holt, and S. Lehner, Ocean surface waves and spectra, in C. R. Jackson and J. R. Apel (eds) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Marine User's Manual, NOAA NESDIS Office of Research and Applications, Washington DC, pp. 139-169, 2004.
  14. Martin, S., R. Drucker, R. Kwok, and B. Holt, Estimation of the thin ice thickness and heat flux from SSM/I data for the Chukchi Sea Alaskan coast polynya for 1990  2001, J. Geophysical Res., 109, C10012, doi:10.1029/2004JC002428, 2004.
  15. DiGiacomo, P. M., L. Washburn, B. Holt, and B. H. Jones, Coastal pollution hazards in Southern California observed by SAR imagery: Stormwater plumes, wastewater plumes, and natural hydrocarbon seeps, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 49, 1013-1024, 2004.
  16. Holt, B., and R. Kwok, Sea ice geophysical measurements from Seasat to the present, with an emphasis on ice motion: A brief review and a look ahead, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Coastal and Marine Applications of SAR, ESA Pub. SP-565, pp. 199-210, 2004.
  17. DiGiacomo, P. M., and B. Holt (2001), Satellite observations of small coastal ocean eddies in the Southern California Bight, J. Geophys. Res., 106(C10), 22,521-22,544.
  18. Holt, B., and S. Martin (2001), The effect of a storm on the 1992 summer sea ice cover of the Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas, J. Geophys. Res., 106 (C1), 1017-1032.
  19. Holt, B., and J. Hilland (2000), Rapid-repeat SAR imaging of the ocean surface: Are daily observations possible?, Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 21(1), 162-169.

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