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Erik Ivins
Group Supervisor

Principal Scientist
Education
  • BSc in Physics, Calif. Polytechnic Univ. Pomona (1972)
  • MSc in Geophysics & Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles (1976)
  • PhD in Earth Sciences, USC, Los Angeles (1995)
Research Interests
  • Elastic and viscous flow of the solid earth's deformation field using advanced modeling techniques
  • Postseismic relaxation and adjustment processes
  • Use of time-variable space gravity, GPS and altimetry for monitoring cryospheric change, postglacial rebound and sea level change
Selected Awards
  • Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for GRL (2007)
  • Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for JGR-Solid Earth (2000)

Selected Service
  • GRACE Science Team 2003-2009
  • Advisory Panel: DynaQlim (Upper Mantle Dynamics and Quaternary Climate in Cratonic Areas, International Lithosphere Program), 2008-2012.
  • Guest Editor: J. Geodynamics. "Glacial Isostatic Adjustment: New Developments and Applications in Global Change, Hydrology, Sea-level Level, Cryosphere and Geodynamics", 2008.
  • Rapporteur at the UNESCO Sponsored Understanding Sea Level Change and Variability Workshop, Paris June 6-9, 2006
  • NASA Interdisciplinary Science PI
  • Geodesy Program Chair, AGU-CGU Joint Meeting 2004
Selected Publications
  1. Ivins, E.R. and D. Wolf, Glacial isostatic adjustment: New developments from advanced observing systems and modeling, J. Geodynamics, 46, 69-77, 10.1016/j.jog.2008.06.002.
  2. Mitrovica, J.X., M. E. Tamisiea, E. R. Ivins, L. L. A. Vermeersen, G. A. Milne and K. Lambeck, (2008) Surface Mass Loading on a Dynamic Earth: Complexity and contamination in the analysis of global sea level trends, In Understanding Sea-level Rise and Variability, A Chapter for a World Climate Research Programme, Cambridge University Press, in press.
  3. Amalvict, M., P. Willis, G. Wöppelmann, E.R. Ivins, M-N. Bouin, L. Testut and J. Hinderer, (2008) Isostatic stability of the East Antarctic station Dumont d′Urville from long-term geodetic observations and geophysical models, Polar Res., in press.
  4. Klemann, V., Z. Martinec and E.R. Ivins, (2008) Glacial isostatic adjustment and present-day plate motion, J. Geodynamics, 46, 95-103, 10.1016/j.jog.2008.04.005.
  5. Ivins, E.R., R.K. Dokka and R.G. Blom, (2007) Post-glacial sediment load and subsidence in coastal Louisiana, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16303, doi:10.1029/2007GL030003.
  6. Chen, J.L., C.R. Wilson, B.D. Tapley, D.D. Blankenship and E.R. Ivins, (2007), Patagonian icefield melting observed by Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L22501, doi:10.1029/2007GL031871.
  7. Klemann,V., Ivins, E.R., Martinec, Z. and D. Wolf, (2007) Models of active glacial isostasy roofing warm subduction: The case of the South Patagonian icefield, J. Geophys. Res., B., B09405, doi:10.1029/2006JB004818.
  8. Ramillien G., A. Lombard, A. Cazenave, E.R. Ivins, M. Llubes, F. Remy and R. Biancal (2006) Interannual variations of the mass balance of the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets from GRACE, Global and Planetary Change, 53, 198-208, 2006.
  9. Wu, X, M.B. Heflin, E.R. Ivins and I. Fukumori, Seasonal and interannual global surface mass variations from geodetic data combination, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, B, 111, B09401 doi:10.1029/2005JB004100. 2006.
  10. Ivins, E.R. E. Rignot, X. Wu, T.S. James and G. Casassa, Ice mass balance and Antarctic gravity change: Satellite and terrestrial perspectives, In, Earth Observation with CHAMP: Results from 3 Years in Orbit, Ch. Reigber, H. Luhr, P. Schwintzer and J. Wickert, (eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 3-11, 2005, ISBN: 3-540-22804-7.
  11. Scheinert, M., Ivins, E., Dietrich, R. and Rulke, A. (2006) Vertical crustal deformations in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica: Observations versus model predictions, In: Futterer, D. and Damaske, D. and Kleinschmidt, G. and Miller, H. and Tessensohn, F. (eds): Antarctica Contributions to Global Earth Sciences (Proc. of ISAES IX, Potsdam, September 8-12, 2003), pp. 357-360. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York.
  12. Kaufmann, G. P. Wu and E.R. Ivins, Lateral viscosity variations beneath Antarctica and their implications on regional rebound motions and seismotectonics, J. Geodynamics, 39, 165-181, 2005.
  13. Larsen, C.F., R.J. Motyka, J.T. Fryemueller, K.A. Echelmeyer and E.R. Ivins, Rapid viscoelastic uplift in southern Alaska caused by post-Little Ice Age retreat, Earth Planetary Sci. Lett., 237, 548-560, 2005.
  14. Ivins , E.R. and T.S. James, Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment: A new assessment, Antarctic Science, 17(4), 541-553, 2005.
  15. Larsen, C.F., R.J. Motyka, J.T. Fryemueller, K.A. Echelmeyer, and E.R. Ivins, Rapid uplift of southern Alaska caused by recent ice loss, Geophys. J. Int. 158, 1118-1133, 2004.
  16. Raymond, C.A., E.R. Ivins, M.B. Heflin and T.S. James, Quasi-continuous Global Positioning System measurements of Glacial isostatic adjustment in the Northern Transantarctic Mountains, Global and Planetary Change, 42, 295-303, 2004.
  17. Ivins, E.R. and T.S. James, Bedrock response to Llanquihue Holocene and present-day glaciation in southernmost South America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L-24613, doi:10.1029/2004GL021500, 2004.
  18. Ivins, E.R., V. Klemann and T.S. James, Stress shadowing by the Antarctic ice sheet, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (12) doi:10.1029/2002JB002182, 2003.
  19. Wu, X., M.B. Heflin, E.R. Ivins, D.F. Argus and F.H. Webb, Large-scale global surface mass variations inferred from GPS measurements of load-induced deformation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi:10.1029/2003GL0117546, 2003.
  20. Ivins, E.R., C.A. Raymond and T.S. James, Late-Pleistocene, Holocene and present-day ice load evolution in the Antarctic Peninsula: Models and predicted vertical crustal motion, in Ice Sheets, Sea Level and the Dynamic Earth, (ed. J.X. Mitrovica and B. Vermeersen), Geodynamics Ser. 29, 133-155, A.G.U., Washington, DC, 2002.
  21. Wu, X., M.M. Watkins, E.R. Ivins, R. Kwok, P. Wang and J.M. Wahr, Toward global inverse solutions for the determination of current and past ice mass variations: Contribution of secular satellite gravity and topography change measurements, J. Geophys. Res., Solid Earth, 107, doi:10.1029/201JB000543, 2002.
  22. Wu, X., D.F. Argus, M.B. Heflin, E.R. Ivins and F.H. Webb, Site distribution and aliasing effects in the inversion for load coefficients and geocenter motion from GPS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, doi:10.1029/2002GL016324, 2002.
  23. Ivins, E.R., X. Wu, C.A. Raymond, C.F. Yoder and T.S. James, Temporal geoid of a rebounding Antarctica and potential measurement by the GRACE and GOCE satellites, in Gravity, Geoid and Geodynamics 2000, IAG Symp. Ser. Vol. 123, (ed. M. Sideras) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 361-366, 2001.
  24. Ivins, E.R., C.A. Raymond and T.S. James, The influence of 5000 year-old and younger glacial mass variability on present-day crustal rebound in the Antarctic Peninsula, Earth, Planets and Space, 52, 1023-1029, 2000.
  25. Ivins, E.R.. Transient creep of a composite lower crust, 2, A polymineralic basis for rapidly evolving postseismic deformation modes, Journal of Geophysical Research 105 (B2), 3229-3232, 2000.
  26. Heki K, Kato T, Rizos C, Xu PL, Hirahara K, Ivins ER, Saito A, Tsuda T, Application of GPS and other space geodetic techniques to Earth Sciences (1) - Preface, Earth, Planets and Space, 52, 655-655, 2000.
  27. Ivins, E.R. and T.S. James, Simple models for late Holocene and present-day Patagonian glacier fluctuations and predictions of a geodetically detectable isostatic response, Geophys. J. Int., 138, 601-624, 1999.
  28. James, T.S. and Ivins, E.R. (1998) Predictions of Antarctic crustal motions driven by present-day ice sheet evolution and by isostatic memory of the Last Glacial Maximum, J. Geophys. Res., B, 103, 4993-5017.
  29. James, T.S. and Ivins, E.R. (1997) Global geodetic signatures of the Antarctic ice sheet, J. Geophys. Res., B, 102, 605-633.
  30. Ivins, E.R. and C.G. Sammis (1996) Transient creep of a composite lower crust 1. Constitutive theory, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 27,981-28,004.
  31. Ivins, E.R., (1996) Transient creep of a composite lower crust 2. A polymineralic basis for rapidly evolving postseismic deformations modes, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 28,005-28,028.
  32. Ivins, E.R. and C.G. Sammis (1995) On lateral viscosity in the mantle and the rheology of low frequency geodynamics, Geophysical J. Int., 123, 305-322.
  33. James, T.S. and Ivins, E.R.(1995) Antarctic mass balance and present-day crustal motion, Geophysical Res. Lett., 22, 973-976.
  34. Ivins, E.R., C.G. Sammis and C.F. Yoder (1993) Deep mantle viscous structure with prior estimate and satellite constraint, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 4579-4609.
  35. Ivins, E.R., T.H. Dixon and M.P. Golombek, Extensional reactivation of an abandoned thrust: A bound on shallowing in the brittle regime, J. Structural Geol., 12, 303-314, 1990.
  36. Ivins, E.R., (1989) New aspects of rotational dynamics within the North American-Pacific ductile shear zone, in Deep Structure and Past Kinematics of Accreted Terranes, (ed. J.W. Hillhouse) Geophys. Mono. 50, AGU. Washington DC, 179-201.

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