Michelle Rebecca Koutnik Department of Earth and Space Sciences University of Washington, Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 221-5041 [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ EDUCATION Ph.D. in Geophysics Nov 2009 University of Washington, Seattle Ph.D. thesis: Inferring histories of accumulation rate, ice thickness, and ice flow from internal layers in glaciers and ice sheets B.S. in Astrophysics, minor in Geophysics/Planetary Science June 2001 University of California, Los Angeles RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research assistant professor July 2013 – present University of Washington Research associate Oct 2012 – June 2013 University of Washington Postdoctoral Research Fellow Feb 2010 – Sept 2012 University of Copenhagen, Host: Dorthe Dahl-Jensen Graduate Research Assistant Sept 2002 – Nov 2009 University of Washington, Advisor: Ed Waddington International Research Exchange Aug - Oct 2007 Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen, Denmark Funded by the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, Univ. of Kansas Fulbright Fellow Sept 2001-Aug 2002 University of Calgary, Canada, Advisor: Shawn Marshall Visiting appointment in Planetary Science 2001-2008 Caltech Undergraduate Research Assistant June 2000 – Sept 2001 Caltech, Advisor: Bruce Murray Undergraduate Research Assistant June 1999 – Dec 2000 Mars Polar Lander, UCLA, assisted the Mars Microphone and Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) teams, Advisor: David Paige 1 Research interests: Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics; ice masses on Mars; interpretation of radar data; ice-flow modeling and geophysical inverse methods to understand ice and climate histories FIELD EXPERIENCE Beardmore Glacier, Antarctica Oct – Dec 2012 Part of a five-person field team (including Howard Conway and Paul Winberry); Collected ground and airborne radar data and conducted active and passive seismic experiments Central West Antarctica Nov – Dec 2011 Led five-person field team on 500 km snow machine traverse, similar to 2010 campaign Greenland, NEEM ice-core site May – June 2011 Assisted with core processing of deep ice; assisted drilling a new 400-meter ice core at the North Greenland Eemian (NEEM) camp Central West Antarctica Nov – Dec 2010 Assisted Lora Koenig (NASA) and Summer Rupper (Brigham Young University); Drilled shallow ice cores and collected radar data on a traverse across West Antarctic Divide Zermatt, Switzerland May 2010 Assisted Summer Rupper (Brigham Young University); Collected radar data, survey, drilled shallow ice cores on Zwillings Glacier Blue Glacier, Olympic Mountains, Washington summer trips in 2002-2008 Collaborated with Howard Conway and Al Rasmussen; Collected and processed GPS data, installed and maintained temperature sensors and snow-depth sensor llulissat, West Greenland October 2007 Assisted Ginny Catania (Univ. of Texas, Austin); Retrieved GPS units Dry Valleys, Antarctica Nov 2004 – Feb 2005 Assisted Erin Pettit (Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks); Installed six seismometers, assisted with wiring, calibration, and installation of tilt sensors and temperature sensors, assisted with collection and processing of shallow ice cores Haig Glacier, Canada winter trip 2001, spring and summer trips 2002 Assisted Shawn Marshall (Univ. of Calgary); Mass-balance measurements, snow-pit analysis, and weather-station installation and maintenance TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Workshop on Applications of Radar Data 12-16 March 2012 SVALI course hosted by Centre for Ice and Climate, Copenhagen Co-instructor, Exploration Seminar to Greenland 12 Aug - 2 Sept 2008 University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences Co-instructed with Gerard Roe; developed new study-abroad undergraduate course with a focus on ice, climate, and culture of Greenland, and travel to Greenland 2 Teaching Assistant, Introductory Seismology Winter 2002 and 2003 University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences Teaching Assistant, Introductory Space Physics Fall 2002 and 2003 University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences Teaching Assistant, Introductory Geology Fall 2002 University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences AWARDS National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship 2009 Two-year postdoctoral position at Centre for Ice and Climate, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark Johnston Award for Research 2006 University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences Graduate research award 2004-2007 University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 2004 Three-year graduate fellowship at University of Washington Evolving Earth Foundation Graduate Research Grant 2003 David Bonderman International Travel Fellowship 2003 University of Washington; four months explorative travel to Canada, Iceland, and Greenland Fulbright Fellowship, United States-Canada 2001 Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Award 2000 INVITED LECTURES Inferring histories of accumulation, ice thickness and ice-divide position Oct 2010 British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge Inferring histories of accumulation rate, ice thickness, and ice flow May 2010 from ice-sheet internal layers Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen Using ice-surface topography and internal layers Feb 2010 to infer past ice-flow rates and past mass balance on Mars University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Austin Fifty years at Blue Glacier and South Cascade Glacier 24 May 2007 with Al Rasmussen, University of Washington Climate Impacts Group 3 Blue Glacier and its response to climate change 14 March 2006 with Howard Conway, Olympic National Park lecture series ACTIVITIES Lectures to undergraduate students May 2011 and Aug 2012 Introduction to ice-sheet modeling Summer-course participant 8-19 June 2010 Advanced Climate Dynamics Course, Norway, topic: Marine/Ice Sheet Interactions Invited participant October 2008 International Space Science Institute (Bern, Switzerland) funded workshop on Mars Polar Ice and Climate Referee Since 2005 Geophysical Research Letters, Icarus, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Glaciology, Mars Journal, Quaternary Research Summer-course participant 15-26 June 2003 Grand Combin Summer School, Italy, topic: Paleoclimate Observations and Modelling PUBLICATIONS 1. Winebrenner, D.P., A.V. Pathare, E.D. Waddington, M.R. Koutnik. Stratigraphy and topography on Gemina Lingula reveal a history of episodic ice flow. In preparation. 2. NEEM Community Members (including M.R. Koutnik). 2013. Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded NEEM ice core strata. Nature 493, 489-494. 3. Burgener, L., S. Rupper, L. Koenig, R. Forster, W. Christensen, J. Williams, M.R. Koutnik, C. Miége, E. Steig. 2013. An observed negative trend in West Antarctic accumulation rates from 1975 to 2010: evidence from new observed and simulated records. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50362. 4. Koutnik, M.R., E.D. Waddington, D.P. Winebrenner, and A.V. Pathare. 2013. Response timescales for Martian ice masses and implications for ice flow on Mars. Icarus 225, 949-959. 5. McBride, J., S. Rupper, S. Ritter, D. Tingey, M.R. Koutnik, A Quick, T. Morris, R. Keach, II, L. Burgener, A. McKean, J. Williams, J. Maurer, D. Keeler, R. Windell. 2012. Relationship between wave ogives and radar scattering in an alpine glacier. Geosphere 8 (5), 1054-1077. 4 6. Koutnik, M.R. and E.D. Waddington. 2012. Well-posed boundary conditions for limited-domain models of transient ice flow near an ice divide. Journal of Glaciology 58 (211), 1008-1020. 7. Steen-Larsen, H.C., E.D. Waddington, and M.R. Koutnik. 2010. Formulating an inverse problem to infer the accumulation-rate pattern from deep internal layering in an ice sheet using a Monte-Carlo Approach. Journal of Glaciology 56 (196), 318-332. 8. Koutnik, M.R., E.D. Waddington, and D.P. Winebrenner. 2009. A method to infer past surface mass balance and topography from internal layers in Martian Polar Layered Deposits. Icarus 204, 458-470. 9. MacGregor, J.A., K. Matsuoka, M.R. Koutnik, E.D. Waddington, M. Studinger, and D.P. Winebrenner. 2009. Mapping millennially averaged accumulation rates for the Lake Vostok region using deep internal layers and inverse methods. Annals of Glaciology 50 (51), 25-34. 10. Fishbaugh, K.E., C.S. Hvidberg, D. Beaty, S. Clifford, A. Haldermann, J.W. Head, M. Hecht, M.R. Koutnik, and K. Tanaka. 2008. Introduction to the 4th Mars Polar Science and Exploration Conference Special Issue: Five top questions in Mars Polar Science. Icarus 196, 305-317. 11. Winebrenner, D.P., M.R. Koutnik, E.D. Waddington, A.V. Pathare, B.C. Murray, S. Byrne, J.L. Bamber. 2007. Evidence for ice flow prior to trough formation in the Martian North Polar Layered Deposits. Icarus 195, 90-105. 12. Waddington, E.D., T.A. Neumann, M.R. Koutnik, H.P. Marshall, D.L. Morse. 2007. Inference of accumulation-rate patterns from deep internal layers. Journal of Glaciology 53, 694-712. 13. Marshall, S. and M.R. Koutnik. 2006. Ice sheet action versus reaction: Distinguishing between Heinrich events and Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles in the North Atlantic. Paleoceanography 21, doi:10.1029/2005PA001247. 14. Koutnik, M.R., S. Byrne, B. Murray, A. Toigo, and Z. Crawford, 2005. Eolian controlled modification of the martian south polar layered deposits. Icarus 174, 490-501. 15. Koutnik, M.R., S. Byrne, and B. Murray, 2002. The South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars: The Cratering Record. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107 (E11), 5100-5112. 16. Murray, B., M.R. Koutnik,