Publications

Udell-Lopez, K. T., Schmidt, B. E., Washam, P., Walker, C. C., Hedgepeth, J. J., and Wood, A. S., Dynamic links between summer surface hydrology and terminus change at three major Greenland outlet glaciers revealed with high resolution satellite imagery. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Glaciology.

Buffo, J. J., C. R. Meyer, C. J. Chivers, C. C. Walker, C. Huber and B. E. Schmidt, Geometry of Freezing Impacts Ice Composition: Implications for Icy Satellites. Manuscript submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets.

Schmidt, B. E. and the VERNE team (incl. C. C. Walker). Vertical Entry Robot for Navigating Europa (VERNE): An ice- and ocean-profiling thermomechanical subsurface mission to search for life on Europa. Manuscript submitted to The Planetary Science Journal.

Walker, C. C., J. N. Bassis, and B. E. Schmidt, Propagation of vertical fractures through planetary ice shells: The role of basal fractures at the ice-ocean interface and proximal cracks, AAS Planetary Science Journal, 2 135. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac01ee

Walker, C. C., M. Becker, and H. A. Fricker (2021), A High Resolution, Three-Dimensional View of the D-28 Calving Event From Amery Ice Shelf With ICESat-2 and Satellite Imagery, Geophysical Research Letters. 48(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091200

Walker, C. C., K. N. Singer, K. L. Craft and 16 others (2021). The Importance of Further Studies and Missions to Understand Cryovolcanism. White paper prepared for The National Academies Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. doi:10.3847/25c2cfeb.b812ddd9.

Mars Ice Core Working Group (incl. C. C. Walker) co-chairs M.R. Albert and M. Koutnik (2021), First Ice Cores from Mars. White paper prepared for NASA Mars Program. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/mars_ice_core_working_group_report_final_feb2021.pdf

Buffo, J. J., Schmidt, B. E., Huber, C., & Walker, C. C. (2020). Entrainment and dynamics of ocean‐derived impurities within Europa's ice shell. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2020JE006394. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006394

Walker, C. C. and A. S. Gardner (2019), Evolution of ice shelf rifts: Implications for formation mechanics and morphological controls, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 526,115764, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115764

Walker, C. C. and A. S. Gardner, Rapid drawdown of Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf glaciers in response to ENSO/Southern Annular Mode-driven warming in the Southern Ocean (2017), Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 476, 100-110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.005

Suer, T.-A., S. Padovan, J. Whitten, R. W. Potter, S. Shkolyar, M. Cable, C. C. Walker, J. Szalay, C. Parker, J. Cumbers, D. Gentry, T. Harrison, S. Naidu, H. Trammel, J. Reimuller, C. Budney, L. L. Lowes (2017), FIRE - Flyby of Io with Repeat Encounter: A conceptual design for a New Frontiers mission to Io, Advances in Space Research, 60 (5), 1080-1100, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2017.05.019

Spears, A., M. E. West, M. R. Meister, C. C. Walker, J. J. Buffo, T. Collins, A. Howard and B. E. Schmidt (2016), The Icefin Under-Ice Unmanned Underwater Vehicle: Development And Deployment In Antarctica, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 23 (4), 30-41, doi: 10.1109/MRA.2016.2578858

Walker, C. C. and B. E. Schmidt (2015), Ice collapse over trapped water bodies on Enceladus and Europa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42: 712–719. doi: 10.1002/ 2014GL062405.

Walker, C. C., J. N. Bassis, H. A. Fricker, and R. J. Czerwinski (2015). Observations of interannual and spatial variability in rift propagation in the Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2002-2014, J. of Glaciology, 61(226), 243-252, doi:10.3189/2015JoG14J151.

Walker, C. C., J. N. Bassis, H. A. Fricker, and R. J. Czerwinski (2013), Structural and environmental controls on Antarctic ice shelf rift propagation inferred from satellite monitoring, J. Geophys. Res.-Earth Surface, 118, 2354–2364, doi:10.1002/2013JF002742.

Walker, C. C., J. N. Bassis, and M. W. Liemohn (2012). On the application of simple rift basin models to the south polar region of Enceladus, J. Geophys. Res.-Planets, 117, E07003, doi:10.1029/2012JE004084.

Bassis, J. N. and C. C. Walker (2011). Upper and lower limits on the stability of calving glaciers from the yield strength envelope of ice, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 468, 913-931, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0422.

Oliversen, R. J., C. C. Walker, J. K. Donaldson, J. P. Morganthaler, E. Mierkiewicz, F. L. Roesler, E. Larson, W. M. Harris, S. S. Hosseini, O. L. Lupie, G. Hilton, J. Carpena-Nunez, O. R. Dawson (2008). Observations of Io and the plasma torus during 2007 and 2008, BAAS, 40, 478. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008DPS....40.4405O/abstract