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Researcher: King, MA (Professor Matt King)

Fields of Research

Geodesy
Physical geography and environmental geoscience
Glaciology
Physical oceanography
Geodynamics
Seismology and seismic exploration
Satellite-based positioning
Palaeoclimatology
Structural geology and tectonics
Geomorphology and earth surface processes
Marine geoscience
Geophysics
Climate change processes
Surveying (incl. hydrographic surveying)
Sociology
Climate change science
Social change
Atmospheric sciences
Natural hazards
Public law
Photogrammetry and remote sensing
Earth and space science informatics
Surface water hydrology
Oceanography
Galactic astronomy
Astronomical instrumentation

Research Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the earth sciences
Understanding climate change
Effects of climate change on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic environments (excl. social impacts)
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences
Global effects of climate change (excl. Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and the South Pacific) (excl. social impacts)
Antarctic and Southern Ocean oceanic processes
Climate variability (excl. social impacts)
Climate change models
Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)
Expanding knowledge in engineering
Natural hazards
Expanding knowledge in human society
Expanding knowledge in the physical sciences
Atmospheric processes and dynamics
Measurement and assessment of marine water quality and condition
Justice and the law
Ecosystem adaptation to climate change
Other environmental management
Antarctic and Southern Ocean ice dynamics
Coastal and estuarine systems and management
Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
Women's and maternal health
Ground water quantification, allocation and impact of depletion
Oceanic processes (excl. in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean)

Career Best Publications

'Antarctica just has this hero factor...': Gendered barriers to Australian Antarctic research and remote fieldwork; PLoS ONE
A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance; Science
Antarctic surface mass balance: natural variability, noise and detecting new trends; Geophysical Research Letters
Fracture propagation to the base of the Greenland ice sheet during supraglacial lake drainage; Science
GPS rates of vertical bedrock motion suggest late Holocene ice-sheet readvance in a critical sector of East Antarctica; Geophysical Research Letters
Lower satellite-gravimetry estimates of Antarctic sea-level contribution; Nature
Ongoing deformation of Antarctica following recent Great Earthquakes; Geophysical Research Letters
Rapid bedrock uplift in the Antarctic Peninsula explained by viscoelastic response to recent ice unloading; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Rapid ice unloading in the Fleming Glacier region, southern Antarctic Peninsula, and its effect on bedrock uplift rates; Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Reduced ice mass loss and three-dimensional viscoelastic deformation in northern Antarctic Peninsula inferred from GPS; Geophysical Journal International
Seasonal speedup along the western flank of the Greenland ice sheet; Science
Solid Earth change and the evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet; Nature Communications
Spurious periodic horizontal signals in sub-daily GPS position estimates; Journal of Geodesy
The sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a changing climate: past, present and future; Reviews of Geophysics
Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era; Nature Climate Change

Research Publications

Research Projects

Australian Antarctic Program Partnership; Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (DoIIS)
Broadband receivers for AuScope geodetic and astronomical applications; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Earth's response to ice unloading: a unique GPS measurement from Antarctica; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Earthquake biases in measurements of Antarctica's sea-level contribution; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Effect of geocentre motion on the Antarctic Ice mass balance; Universities Australia / Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) (UADAAD)
Gender Equity in Antarctic Research ; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
GPS4 Sea Levels; European Union (EU)
Improving Models of West Antarctic Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Through a New Surface Velocity Field; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Insights from the past: Using the history of Antarctica to improve projections of global sea level rise; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Long-term monitoring of solid Earth deformation and structure in East Antarctica; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Noiseless; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
Ocean forced evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Outlet glacier dynamics in Princess Elizabeth Land; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Precision and accuracy of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) positioning with SBAS, SBAS DFMC and PPP - Application in Precision Agriculture: Project Demonstrator 8103; Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI)
Quantifying sea-level trends and extremes along Australia's coastal margin; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Quantifying West Antarctic mantle viscosity via precise GPS measurement of Earth's response to surface mass balance anomalies; National Environmental Research Council (NERC)
Rapid Deployment Seismic Recorders for Interdisciplinary Antarctic Research; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Removing bias estimates of East Antarctica's contribution to present and past sea level changes; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
The Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Totten Ice Dynamics and Evolution; Department of Environment and Energy (Cwth) (DoEE)
Vertical land motion:constraints, errors and the contribution of sea level change; Australian Academy of Science (AASc)
Southern Ocean Sea Level Study
The role of the Southern Ocean in sea level change
A holistic model of outlet calving, dynamic acceleration and drawdown for the Greenland Ice Sheet
Antarctica on the scales: Present-day mass balance of the Antarctic Peninsula from time-variable gravity field measurements
Changes in glacier geometry and extent in Svalbard: Implications for sea-level rise during the 20th and 21st centuries.
Global Loading and Deformation at Tidal Timescales
High spatio-temporal resolution changes in Earth's gravity field from GOCE with application to ice mass balance
Improved constraints on global-scale hydrological change by determining secular geocenter motion and low degrees of the surface mass load
Improved models of West Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment through new crustal motion data
iSTAR-C - Dynamical control on the response of Pine Island Glacier
iSTAR-D: The contribution to sea-level rise from the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica
Measurements of Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, thickness change from surface elevation observations 1968-present
Reducing the uncertainty in estimates of the sea level contribution from the westernmost part of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
Regional Gravity Fields from GOCE and GRACE
Resolving Antarctic ice mass TrEndS (RATES)
The determination of a new global GPS-derived surface velocity field and its application to the problem of 20th century sea-level rise
The spatial and temporal distribution of 20th Century Antarctic Peninsula glacier mass change and its drivers
Tidal dynamics of the Filchner-Ronne and Larsen C ice shelves from GPS observations and model assimilation

University of Tasmania, Australia