Leigh Stearns

Ph.D. University of Maine, 2007.
Assistant Professor
4 Lindley Hall; Phone: (785) 864-4202, e-mail:
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Dr. Stearns is a research at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets at the University of Kansas.

Representative Publications

Straneo, F., G.S. Hamilton, D.A. Sutherland, L.A. Stearns, F. Davidson, & A. Rosing-Asvid. 2010. "Wind-Forced Circulation of Subtropical Waters in a large, East Greenland Glacial Fjord". Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/NGEO764.


Nettles, M., T. Larsen, P. Elósegui, G.S. Hamilton, L.A. Stearns, A. Ahlstrøm, J.L. Davis, M.L. Andersen, J. de Juan, S.A. Khan, L. Stenseng, G. Ekström & R. Forsberg. 2008. "Step-wise changes in glacier flow speed coincide with calving and glacial earthquakes at Helheim Glacier, Greenland". Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24503, doi:10.1029/2008GL036127.

Stearns, L.A., B.E. Smith & G.S. Hamilton. 2008. "Increased flow speed on a large East Antarctic outlet glacier caused by subglacial floods". Nature Geoscience, 1, 827-831.


Khan, S.A., J. Wahr, L.A. Stearns, G.S. Hamilton, T. van Dam, K.M. Larson & O. Francis. 2007. "Elastic uplift in southeast Greenland due to rapid ice mass loss". Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L21701, doi:10.1029/2007GL031468.


Stearns, L.A & G.S. Hamilton. 2007. "Rapid volume loss from two East Greenland outlet glaciers quantified using repeat stereo satellite imagery". Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L05503, doi:10.1029/2006GL028982.


Van der Veen, C.J., K.C. Jezek, L.A. Stearns. 2007. "Shear measurements across the northern margin of Whillans Ice Stream". Journal of Glaciology, 53, 180, 17–29.


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