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Andy Mahoney

Research Associate Professor in Geophysics

E-mail: armahoney@alaska.edu
Phone: (907) 474-5382
Fax: (907) 474-7290
Office: 106C WRRB

For a list of publications, please visit the publications page
Andy Mahoney

My broad field of expertise is sea ice geophysics, but my research interests encompass climate change, coastal dynamics, ice-ocean interaction and the relationship between humans and sea ice. Arctic sea ice is a rapidly changing component of the global climate system and reports of its retreat make frequent headlines in international media. My research interests include the local implications of these changes for the Arctic residents. Sea ice geophysics also has an important role to play in providing data and information to stake holders and policy makers as commercial interests in the Arctic grow.

At the opposite end of the world, Antarctic sea ice is not undergoing the same reduction in extent. The two Polar Regions are geographically very different from each other, so a difference should not be surprising. My research interests also include the processes by which ice shelves flowing off of the Antarctic continent influence sea ice growth through ice-ocean interaction at depth. This involved over-wintering at Scott Base.
I am involved with the following projects:



Radarsat Image

Early winter sea ice in the Beaufort Sea

This Radarsat SAR image shows newly forming sea ice caught in a coastal eddy near the Alaska / Canada border. (c) Canadian Space Agency
Helicopter on ice

Under ice oceanography from helicopter

Taking a temperature and salinity profile through a lead in the ice north of Barrow, Alaska (Photo by S. Hendricks)
Remote camera in Antarctica

Maintaining a remote camera in Antarctica

Swapping batteries and downloading images from a camera observing winter sea ice growth in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica