Education:
B.A. Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
M.A. Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1975
Ph.D. Geology, University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Membership in Professional Societies:
Professional Experience:
| 1976-1978 | Research Scientist, Colorado School of Mines Research Institute |
| 1978-1984 | Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Denver University |
| 1984-present | Geologist / Physical Scientist, US Geological Survey |
Current Research:
Physical properties of glacier ice and the development of paleoclimate records from high-latitude ice caps and ice sheets. Microstructural modeling and dynamic recrystallization processes in glaciers and ice sheets.
Project Chief: Ice Dynamics, Paleoclimate, and Ice Cores
Selected Publications Since 1990:
Fegyveresi, J.M., R.B. Alley, M.K. Spencer, J.J. Fitzpatrick, E.J. Steig, J.W.C. White: Late-Holocene climate evolution at the WAIS Divide site, West Antarctica: bubble number-density estimates. Journal of Glaciology, Vol. 57, No. 204, p. 629-638.
Alley, R.B., Andrews, J.T., Brigham-Grette, J., Clarke, G.K.C., Cuffey, K.M., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Funder, S., Marshall, S.J., Miller, G.H., Mitrovica, J.S., Muhs, D.R., Otto-Bliesner B.L., Polyak, L., White, J.W.C., (2010): History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights. Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp. 1728-1756.
Fitzpatrick, J., Alley, R.B., Brigham-Grette, J., Miller, G.H., Polyak, L. White, J.W.C., (2010): Arctic paleoclimate synthesis papers. Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp.1674-1678. (Journal Article)
Miller, G.H., Brigham-Grette, J., Alley, R.B., Anderson, L., Bauch, H.A., Douglas, M.S.V., Edwards, M.E.,Elias, S.A., Finney, B.P., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Funder, S.V., Herbert, T.D., Hinzman, L.D., Kaufman, D.S., MacDonald, G.M., Polyak, L., Robock, A., Serreze, M.C., Smol, J.P., Spielhagen, R., White, J.W.C., Wolfe, A.P., and Wolff, E.W., (2010): Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp. 1679-1715.
Miller, G.H., Alley, R.B., Brigham-Grette, J., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Polyak, L., Serreze, M.C., White, J.W.C., (2010): Arctic amplification: can the past constrain the future? Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp. 1779-1790.
Polyak, L., Alley, R.B., Andrews, J.T., Brigham-Grette, J, Cronin, T.M., Darby, D.A., Dyke, A.S., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Funder, S., Holland, M., Jennings, A.E., Miler, G.H., O'Regan, M., Savell, J., Serreze, M., St. John, K., White, J.W.C., Wolff, E., (2010): History of sea ice in the Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp. 1757-1778.
White, J.W.C., Alley, R.B., Brigham-Grette, J., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Jennings, A.E., Johnsen, S.J., Miller, G.H., Nerem, R.S, Polyak, L., (2010): Past rates of climate change in the Arctic. Quat. Sci. Rev., vol. 29, pp. 1716-1727.
Spencer, M.K., Alley, R.B., Fitzpatrick, J.J., (2006): Developing a bubble number-density paleoclimatic indicator for glacier ice. Journal of Glaciology, vol.52, no. 178, pp. 358-364.
Di Prinzio, C.L., Wilen, L.A., Alley, R.B., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Spencer, M.K., and Gow, A.J., (2005): Fabric and texture at Siple Dome, Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, vol. 51, no. 173, pp. 281-290.
Alley, Richard B., and Fitzpatrick, Joan J., (1999): Conditions for bubble elongation in cold ice-sheet ice, Journal of Glaciology, v. 45, no. 149, pp. 147-153.
Steig, Eric J., Joan J. Fitzpatrick, Noel Potter, Jr., Douglas H. Clark, (1998): The geochemical record in rock glaciers, Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography 80 (3-4), pp. 277-286.
Alley, R.B., Gow, A.J., Meese, D.A., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Waddington, E.D., and Bolzan, J.F., (1997): Grain-scale processes, folding, and stratigraphic disturbance in the GISP2 ice core: Jour. Geophysical Res., v. 102, no. C12, pp. 26, 816 - 26, 830.
Alley, R.B., Shuman, C.A., Meese, D.A., Gow, A.J., Cuffey, K.M., Taylor, K.C., Fitzpatrick, J.J., and Elder, B., (1997): Visual-stratigraphic dating of the GISP2 ice core: basis, reproducibility, and application: Jour. Geophysical Res., v. 102, no. C12, pp. 26, 367 - 26, 281.
Gow, A.J., Meese, D.A., Alley, R.B., Fitzpatrick, J.J., Anandakrishnan, S., Woods, G.A., and Elder, B.C., (1997): Physical and structural properties of the GISP2 ice cores - a review: Jour. Geophysical Res., v. 102, no. C12, pp. 26, 559 - 26, 575.
Fitzpatrick, J., (1995): Preliminary report on the physical and stratigraphic properties of the Taylor Dome ice core: Antarctic Journal of the United States, 1994 Review, v. XXIX, no. 5, p. 85-86.
Anandakrishnan, S., Fitzpatrick, J.J., R.B. Alley, A.J. Gow, and D. Meese, (1994): Shear-wave detection of asymmetric c-axis fabrics in the GISP2 ice core, Journal of Glaciology, v. 40, p. 491-496.
Fitzpatrick, J.J., and D.R. Muhs, (1990): Borax in the supraglacial moraine of the Lewis Cliff, Buckley Island Quadrangle - first Antarctic occurrence: Antarctic Journal of the United States, v. XXIV, no. 5, p. 63-65.
Fitzpatrick, J.J., Muhs, D, and Jull, A.J.T., (1990): Saline minerals in the Lewis Cliff ice tongue, Buckley Island Quadrangle, Antarctica: in Contributions to Antarctic Research I, Antarctic Research Series, v. 50, p. 57-69.
Alley, R.B., Saltzman, E.S., Cuffey, K.M., and Fitzpatrick, J.J., (1990): Summertime formation of depth in central Greenland: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 17, no. 12, p. 2393-2396.
Editorships, Websites, Data Releases, Multimedia
Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 29, 2010: Special Theme Issue: Arctic Palaeoclimate Synthesis (pp. 1674-1790. (Editor)
Fitzpatrick, J.J. (2010): Digital imagery of the Siple Dome ice core. NSIDC-0413 Data Set. http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0413.html (Dataset)
CCSP, 2009: Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes. A report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and Subcommittee on Global Change Research [Alley, R.B., J. Brigham-Grette, G.H. Miller, L. Polyak, and J.W.C. White (coordinating lead authors)]. U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, 257 pp. (Report Lead and Editor)
Annals of Glaciology, Volume 47, 2007: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology. 148 pp. (Editor)
Landis, Gary P., Fitzpatrick, Joan J., and Everett, T., (1995): Analysis of firn gases collected at shallow depths in the Wrangell-St. Elias Range, Alaska, the GISP2 site, Greenland, and The Taylor Dome site, Antarctica: USGS Open-File Report 95-222, 48 p.
Fitzpatrick, J., (1994): NICL Ice Core Inventory. IGBP PAGES/World Data Center-A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #94-008. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder, CO, USA. (Database)
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