Robert L. Hawley

Professor

Appointments

Cheheyl Professor and Director, Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Area of Expertise

Glaciers and climate, physical glaciology,

ice physics,

scientific computing,

science writing,

Innovative pedagogy

Education

B.S. University of Washington, 1997

Ph.D. University of Washington, 2005

Publications

Derek J. Pickell, Robert Hawley, Denis Felikson, and Jamie C. Good. 2026. ICESat-2 surface elevation assessmentwithkinematicGPSandstaticGNSSneartheicedivideinGreenland. TheCryosphere, doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-483-2026

Ian Raphael, Donald K. Perovich, Christopher M. Polashenski, Robert L. Hawley. 2025. A low-cost, autonomous system for distributed snow depth measurements on sea ice. The Cryosphere, doi.org/10.5194/tc-19- 6059-2025

Derek J. Pickell, Robert Hawley, and Adam LeWinter. 2025. Spatio-temporal patterns of accumulation and surfaceroughnessininteriorGreenlandwithaGNSS-IRnetwork. TheCryosphere.doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1013- 2025

Alexander Ronan, Robert Hawley, and Jonathan Chipman. 2024. Impacts of Differing Melt Regimes on Satellite Radar Waveforms and Elevation Retrievals. The Cryosphere. doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-5673-2024

Ian E. McDowell, Kaitlin M. Keegan, S. McKenzie Skiles, Christopher P. Donahue, Erich C. Osterberg, Robert L. Hawley, and Hans-Peter Marshall. 2024. A cold laboratory hyperspectral imaging system to map grain size and ice layer distributions in firn cores. The Cryosphere. doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1925-2024

Katherine A. Lutz, Robert L. Hawley, Marisa C. Palucis. 2024. Investigating the Linkage Between Spiral TroughMorphologyandCloudCoverageontheMartianNorthPolarLayeredDeposits. JournalofGeophysical Research – Planets. doi.org/10.1029/2023JE008015

Derek Pickell and Robert Hawley. 2023. Performance characterization of a new, low-cost multi-GNSS instrument for the cryosphere. Journal of Glaciology. doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.97

Ian E. McDowell1, Kaitlin M. Keegan, Nander Wever, Erich C. Osterberg, Robert L. Hawley, Hans-Peter

Marshall. 2023. Firn core evidence of two-way feedback mechanisms between meltwater percolation and firn microstructurefromthewesternpercolationzoneoftheGreenlandIceSheet. JournalofGeophysicalResearch: Earth Surface. doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006752

William H. Armstrong, David Polashenski, Martin Truffer, Greg Horne, Jacob B. Hanson, Robert L. Hawley, Anthony M. Hengst, Lily Vowels, Brian Menounos, Wesley Van Wychen. 2022. Declining Basal Motion DominatestheLong-TermSlowingofAthabascaGlacier,Canada. JournalofGeophysicalResearch:Earth Surface. 1 – 22. doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006439

Gerbi, C, S. Mills, R. Clavette, S. Campbell, S. Bernsen, *D. Clemens-Sewall, *I. Lee, R. Hawley, K. Kreutz, K. Hruby. 2021. Microstructures in a shear margin: Jarvis Glacier, Alaska. Journal glaciology. 1 – 14 doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.62.

Giese, A., S. Arcone, R. L. Hawley, G. Lewis, and P. Wagnon. 2021. Detecting supraglacial debris thickness with GPR under suboptimal conditions Journal of Glaciology. 1-- 13. doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.59.

Lewis, G., E. Osterberg, R. Hawley, H.-P. Marshall, T. Meehan, K. Graeter, F. McCarthy, *T. Overly, Z. Thundercloud, D. Ferris, B. Koffman, J. Dibb. 2021. Atmospheric Blocking Drives Recent Albedo Change Across the Western Greenland Ice Sheet Percolation Zone. Geophysical Research Letters. doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092814.

Contact

Robert.L.Hawley@dartmouth.edu
646-1425
Fairchild, Room 122
HB 6105

Departments

Earth Sciences

Centers

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding