Joanne Johnson

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2018-2025       Lead UK PI on NSF-NERC International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration grant: “Geological history constraints on the magnitude of grounding line retreat in the Thwaites Glacier system”, with Ryan Venturelli (Colorado School of Mines, USA), Brent Goehring (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Dylan Rood (Imperial), John Woodward (Northumbria), Greg Balco (Berkeley Geochronology Center, USA), Brenda Hall (University of Maine, USA) and Seth Campbell (also Maine).

2015-2025       PI on NERC standard grant NE/K012088/1: “Reconstructing millennial-scale ice sheet change in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, using high-precision exposure dating”, with Steve Roberts (BAS), Dylan Rood (Imperial), and Joerg Schaefer (LDEO).

2023  awarded Polar Medal in UK New Year Honours: BAS staff awarded the Polar Medal

2022-present    Co-leader of Theme 2 (Solid Earth-Ice Interactions), SCAR INStabilities & Thresholds in ANTarctica (INSTANT) Scientific Research Programme: SCAR INSTANT Theme 2

2021-present    Member of NERC Peer Review College

June 2010   awarded Marie Tharp Fellowship for 2010-2011, to undertake research at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York with Dr Joerg Schaefer – Joanne Johnson and Lamont-Doherty, Collaborating on Glacial Research

May 2008    awarded the Laws Prize

2002-present British Antarctic Survey

1998-2002 PhD, University of Cambridge (Clare College)

Thesis title: Magmatism of the Vitim Volcanic Field, Baikal Rift Zone, Siberia

1995-1998 BSc. Hons. Geology (1st class), University of Durham (Hatfield College)

 

Johnson Mesa, James Ross Island, Antarctica

In January 2007, the Antarctic Place-Names Committee named a feature on James Ross Island, Antarctica after me. The SCAR Gazetteer description is:

Johnson Mesa        63 49’40”S, 57 55’22”W Large mesa north of Abernethy Flats, between Crame Col and Bibby Point, Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island. It was named after Dr Joanne S Johnson (b.1977), BAS geochemist. Her work led to a completely new proxy for recognising past ice sheets using alteration mineral chemistry.

Research interests

From 2018-2025 I am UK lead Principal Investigator on the GHC project, which is part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration funded by NERC and NSF. “GHC” is short for “Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System“. My co-PIs are Ryan Venturelli (US lead PI; Colorado School of Mines, USA), Brent Goehring (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), Dylan Rood (Imperial College London), John Woodward (Northumbria University), Greg Balco (Berkeley Geochronology Center, USA), and Brenda Hall and Seth Campbell (both University of Maine, USA). We also have a postdoc, Keir Nichols, and a BAS/Imperial PhD student, Jonathan Adams. To listen to an interview with me and Ted Scambos about the programme for BBC Inside Science, click here.

From 2015-2025 I am Principal Investigator on a NERC standard grant (NE/K012088/1) entitled:

“Reconstructing millennial-scale ice sheet change in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, using high-precision exposure dating”

My Co-Investigators are Steve Roberts (BAS) and Dylan Rood (Imperial). The project also involves Joerg Schaefer (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA), and Ruthie Halberstadt (Berkeley Geochronology Center, USA) as Project Partners, and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre. Steve Roberts and I undertook fieldwork around Mt Murphy in November 2015-January 2016.

I am also working on exploring feedbacks between glaciation, volcanism and climate in Antarctica

From 2009-2013, I my work focused on samples from the Hudson Mountains, which lie adjacent to Pine Island Glacier. This built on research of the QWAD project (see below). We obtained a high-resolution record of thinning of a tributary of Pine Island Glacier, which showed rapid thinning in the early Holocene (8 kyrs ago). This research was published in 2014 in Science (see Johnson et al., 2014).

From 2005-2009, I worked in the QWAD (Quaternary West Antarctic Deglaciation project, within the GRADES (Glacial Retreat in Antarctica and Deglaciation of the Earth System) project. I used cosmogenic surface exposure dating to construct a preliminary age versus elevation record for nunataks near the Pine Island Glacier (e.g. the Hudson Mountains). I visited the Hudson Mountains in 2006, as part of the Alfred Wegener Institute cruise ANT-XXIII/4 on the RV Polarstern. Please see Johnson et al. 2008 (Geology) for the results of this work. There is also a good article in Nature Reports Climate Change describing my work in the Amundsen Sea Embayment at

http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0804/full/climate.2008.30.html

From August 2002 to April 2005, I worked on a project focusing on the origin and palaeoenvironmental implications of authigenic alteration minerals in volcaniclastic rocks from James Ross Island (Northern Antarctic Peninsula). The aim was to understand the relationship of alteration to the composition of porewaters present during eruption, and to determine whether the chemical composition of alteration products (such as zeolites and clay minerals) reflects the alteration environment. I undertook Antarctic fieldwork on James Ross Island in January 2003 and January-March 2004. This formed part of the LCHAIS (Late Cenozoic History of the Antarctic Ice Sheet) project, within the GIANTS (Global Interactions of the ANTarctic Ice Sheet) programme (which ran from 2000-2005).

For my PhD, I studied the geochemistry of a suite of alkaline lavas from the Vitim Volcanic Field in Siberia. This lies ~ 200 km east of Lake Baikal, in one of the world’s major continental rift zones. My research involved using geochemical characteristics of these lavas to constrain the composition and thickness of the lithosphere in the Baikal Rift Zone, and to improve our understanding of the melting regime beneath the region during the Cenozoic.

 
Peer Reviewed Publications
NICHOLS, K.A., ROOD, D.H., VENTURELLI, R.A., BALCO, G., ADAMS, J.R., GUILLAUME, L., CAMPBELL, S., GOEHRING, B.M., HALL, B.L., WILCKEN, K., WOODWARD, J., JOHNSON, J.S. (submitted) Offshore-onshore record of Last Glacial Maximum-to-present grounding line retreat at Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica.

HERBERT, L., LEPP, A.P., MUNEVAR GARCIA, S., BROWNING, A., SIMKINS, L.M., WELLNER, J., SEVERMANN, S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., JOHNSON, J.S., SHERRELL, R.M. (accepted, 2023) Volcanogenic fluxes of iron from the seafloor in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica. Marine Chemistry.

BALCO, G., BROWN, N., NICHOLS, K., VENTURELLI, R.A., ADAMS, J., BRADDOCK, S., CAMPBELL, S., GOEHRING, B., JOHNSON, J.S.,  ROOD, D.H., WILCKEN, K., HALL, B., WOODWARD, J. (2023) Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene. The Cryosphere, 17, 1787-1801, paper (open access)

ADAMS, J. JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., MASON, P.J., NICHOLS, K.A., VENTURELLI, R.A., WILCKEN, K., BALCO, G., GOEHRING, B., HALL, B., WOODWARD, J., ROOD, D.H. (2022) New 10Be exposure ages improve Holocene ice sheet thinning history near the grounding line of Pope Glacier, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 16, 4887–4905, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2022-82.

JONES, R.S., JOHNSON, J.S., LIN, Y., MACKINTOSH, A.N., SEFTON, J.P., SMITH, J.A., THOMAS, E.R., WHITEHOUSE, P.L. (2022) Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-Industrial Holocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00309-5.

BRADDOCK, S., HALL, B.L., JOHNSON, J.S., BALCO, G., SPOTH, M., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., CAMPBELL, S., GOEHRING, B.M., ROOD, D.H., WOODWARD, J. (2022) Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00961-y.

JOHNSON, J.S., VENTURELLI, R.A., BALCO, G., ALLEN, C.S., BRADDOCK, S., CAMPBELL, S., GOEHRING, B., HALL, B.L., NEFF, P., NICHOLS, K.A., ROOD, D.H., THOMAS, E.R., WOODWARD, J. (2022) Existing and potential evidence for Holocene grounding-line retreat and readvance in Antarctica. The Cryosphere, tc-2021-360 link to paper (open access)

JOHNSON, J.S., POLLARD, D.P., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M. (2021) Comparing Glacial-Geological Evidence and Model Simulations of Ice Sheet Change since the Last Glacial Period in the Amundsen Sea Sector of Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005827

JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., POLLARD, D., SCHAEFER, J.M., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., IRELAND, L.C., LAMP, J.L. (2020) Deglaciation of Pope Glacier implies widespread early Holocene ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 548, 116501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116501

NICHOLS, K.A., GOEHRING, B.M., BALCO, G., JOHNSON, J.S., HEIN, A.S., TODD, C. (2019) New Last Glacial Maximum ice thickness constraints for the Weddell Sea sector, Antarctica. The Cryosphere 13, 2935–2951. link to paper

JOHNSON, J.S., NICHOLS, K.A., GOEHRING, B.M., BALCO, G., SCHAEFER, J.M. (2019) Abrupt mid-Holocene ice loss in the western Weddell Sea Embayment of Antarctica. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 518, 127-135. full text (open access)

JOHNSON, J.S., O’DONNELL, J.P., THOMAS, E.R. (2018) In situ measurements of snow accumulation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during 2016. Antarctic Science, doi: 10.1017/S0954102018000068.

SMELLIE, J.L.,  ROCCHI, S., JOHNSON, J.S., DI VICENZO, G., SCHAEFER, J.M. (2018) A tuff cone erupted under frozen-bed ice (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): linking glaciovolcanic and cosmogenic nuclide data for ice sheet reconstructions. Bulletin of Volcanology 80:12. full text

JOHNSON, J.S., SMITH, J.A., SCHAEFER, J.M., YOUNG, N.E., GOEHRING, B.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., LAMP, J.L., FINKEL, R.C., GOHL, K. (2017) The last glaciation of Bear Peninsula, central Amundsen Sea Embayment of Antarctica: constraints on timing and duration revealed by in situ cosmogenic 14C and 10Be dating. Quaternary Science Reviews 178, 77-88. Full text

RAISED Consortium (2014) A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100, 1-9, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.025.

O’COFAIGH, C., DAVIES, B. J., LIVINGSTONE, S. J., JOHNSON, J.S., SMITH, J. A., HOCKING, E., HODGSON, D. A., ANDERSON, J. B., BENTLEY, M. J., CANALS, M., DOMACK, E., DOWDESWELL, J. A., EVANS, J., GLASSER, N. F., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., LARTER, R. D., ROBERTS, S. J. (2014) Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100, 87-110, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.023.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., SMITH, J. A., FINKEL, R. C., ROOD, D. H., GOHL, K., BALCO, G., LARTER, R. D., SCHAEFER, J. M. (2014) Rapid thinning of Pine Island Glacier in the early Holocene. Science 343, 999-1001, doi: 10.1126/science.1247385 (Full text | Reprint)

LINDOW, J., CASTEX, M., WITTMANN, H., JOHNSON, J. S., LISKER, F., GOHL, K., SPIEGEL, C. (2014) Deglaciation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica – a new piece in the jigsaw, Quaternary Science Reviews 98, 166-173, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.010.

LARTER, R. D., ANDERSON, J. B., GRAHAM, A. G. C., GOHL, K., HILLENBRAND, C. D., JAKOBSSON, M., JOHNSON, J. S., KIRSHNER, A. E., KUHN, G., NITSCHE, F. O., SMITH, J. A., BENTLEY, M. J., DOWDESWELL, J. A., EHRMANN, W., KLAGES, J. P., LINDOW, J., O COFAIGH, C., SPIEGEL, C. (2014) Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100, Special Issue on Antarctic Ice Sheet History, 55-86, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.016.

SMELLIE, J. L., JOHNSON, J. S., NELSON, A. E. (2013) Geological map of James Ross Island. I. James Ross Island Volcanic Group (1:125 000 scale). British Antarctic Survey GEOMAP 2 Series, Sheet 5, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.

JOHNSON, J. S., , EVEREST, J. D., LEAT, P. T., GOLLEDGE, N. R., ROOD, D. H., STUART, F. M. (2011) The deglacial history of NW Alexander Island, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating. Quaternary Research 77, 273-280. doi: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.11.012.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., ROBERTS, S. J., BINNIE, S., FREEMAN, S. P. H. T. (2011). Holocene deglacial history of the north east Antarctic Peninsula – a review and new chronological constraints. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3791-3802. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.011.

BENTLEY, M. J., JOHNSON, J. S., HODGSON, D. A., DUNAI, T. J., FREEMAN, S., O’COFAIGH, C. (2011). Rapid deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula, in the early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3338-3349, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.002.

GOLLEDGE, N. R., EVEREST, J. D., BRADWELL, T., JOHNSON, J. S. (2010) Lichenometry on Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula: size-frequency studies, growth rates and snowpatches. Geografiska Annaler 92A (1), 111-124.

JOHNSON, J. S., SMELLIE, J. L., NELSON, A. E., STUART, F. M. (2009). History of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet since the early Pliocene – evidence from cosmogenic dating of Pliocene lavas on James Ross Island, Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change 69, 205-213, doi: 10.1016/j.glopacha.2009.09.001.

HODGSON, D. A., ROBERTS, S. J., BENTLEY, M. J., SMITH, J. A., JOHNSON, J. S., VERLEYEN, E., VYVERMAN, W., HODSON, A. J., LENG, M. J.,CZIFERSKY, A., FOX, A. J., SANDERSON, D. C. W., SUGDEN, D. E. (2009). Exploring former subglacial Hodgson Lake, Antarctica. Paper I: site description, geomorphology and limnology. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2295-2309, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.011.

JOHNSON, J. S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., SMELLIE, J. L., ROCCHI, S. (2008) The last deglaciation of Cape Adare, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 20 (6), 581-587, doi: 10.1017/S0954102008001417.

HAMBREY, M. J., SMELLIE, J. L., NELSON, A. E., JOHNSON, J. S. (2008) Late Cenozoic glacier-volcano interaction on James Ross Island and adjacent areas, James Ross Island. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (5/6), 709-731, doi: 10.1130/B26242.1.

SMELLIE, J. L., JOHNSON, J. S., MCINTOSH, W. C., ESSER, R., GUDMUNDSSON, M. T., HAMBREY, M. J., VAN WYK DE VRIES, B. (2008) Six million years of glacial history recorded in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 260, 122-148, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.011.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., GOHL, K. (2008) First exposure ages from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica: the Late Quaternary context for recent thinning of Pine Island, Smith and Pope Glaciers. Geology 36 (3), 223-226.

LARTER, R. D., GOHL, K., HILLENBRAND, C. -D., KUHN, G., DEEN, T. J., DIETRICH, R., EAGLES, G., JOHNSON, J. S., LIVERMORE, R. A., NITSCHE, F. O., PUDSEY, C. J., SCHENKE, H. -W., SMITH, J. A., UDINTSEV, G., UENZELMANN-NEBEN, G. (2007) West Antarctic Ice Sheet Change Since the Last Glacial Period. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 88 (17), 189-190.

JOHNSON, J. S.& SMELLIE, J. L. (2007) Zeolites as proxies for eruptive paleoenvironment. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8, Q03009, doi: 10.1029/2006GC001450.

WILLIAMS, M., SMELLIE, J. L., JOHNSON, J. S., BLAKE, D. B. (2006) Late Miocene asterozoans (Echinodermata) in the James Ross Island Volcanic Group. Antarctic Science 18 (1), 117-122.

JOHNSON, J. S., GIBSON, S. A., THOMPSON, R. N., NOWELL, G. M. (2005) Volcanism in the Vitim Volcanic Field, Siberia: Geochemical Evidence for a Mantle Plume Beneath the Baikal Rift Zone. Journal of Petrology 46 (7), 1309-1344. reprint

JOHNSON, J. S. (2004) Ancient Antarctica. Planet Earth (NERC) Spring 2004, 32.

 
Abstracts
JOHNSON, J.S. (2022) Determining post-glacial ice sheet history of the Thwaites Glacier system, West Antarctica, using onshore geological archives: Where are we at, and where are we going? AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago (USA), 12-16 December 2022, invited talk.
HERBERT, L.C., LEPP, A., SIMKINS, L., WELLNER, J., HILLENBRAND, C.D., JOHNSON, J.S., SEVERMANN, S., SHERRELL, R.M. (2022) A Potential Benthic Source of Nutrient Iron Driving Productivity in the Amundsen Sea in the Context of Current and Past Glacial Retreat. AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago (USA), 12-16 December 2022, poster.

BRADDOCK, S.S., HALL, B.L., JOHNSON, J.S., BALCO, G., SPOTH, M., WHITEHOUSE, P., CAMPBELL, S.W., GOEHRING, B.M., ROOD, D.H., WOODWARD, J. (2022) Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica. AGU Fall Meeting, Chicago (USA), 12-16 December 2022, poster.

JOHNSON, J.S., POLLARD, D., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., GOEHRING, B., IRELAND, L., LAMP, J.L., RAND, C., SMITH, J.A. (2020) Early- to mid-Holocene ice sheet thinning in the Pine Island-Thwaites Glacier catchment of West Antarctica: glacial-geological observations and modeling. AGU Fall Meeting, December 2020.
SMELLIE, J., ROCCHI, J., JOHNSON, J., DI VICENZO, G., SCHAEFER, J. (2019) Construction and environmental implications of a tuff cone erupted under cold-based ice: Harrow Peaks, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. EGU General Assembly 2019, Vienna, 7-12 April 2019.
JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M., POLLARD, D., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., LAMP, J.L. (2018) Early- to Mid-Holocene ice sheet thinning at Mt Murphy. West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop, Stony Point, New York USA, 16-19 September 2018. https://www.waisworkshop.org/sites/waisworkshop.org/files/webform/2018/abstracts/JohnsonJ2018.pdf

JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M., POLLARD, D., WHITEHOUSE, P.L. (2017) Glacial-geomorphological evidence for post-LGM thinning of Pope Glacier, western Amundsen Sea Embayment. West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop, Camp Casey, Washington USA, 8-11 October 2017. https://www.waisworkshop.org/sites/waisworkshop.org/files/webform/2017/abstracts/Johnson_J.pdf

BUSCH, P., SCHEINERT, M., KNÖFEL, C., EBERLEIN, JOHNSON, J., HORWATH, M., SCHROEDER, L., GROH, A. (2017) GNSS measurements in West Antarctica to reconcile glacial-isostatic adjustment. International Workshop on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Elastic Deformation, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2017.

JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., IRELAND, L., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M., WHITEHOUSE, P.L., POLLARD, D. (2016) Glacial-geomorphological evidence for past ice cover in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment of Antarctica. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2016.

SCHEINERT, M., BUSCH, P., HORWATH, M., KNÖFEL, C., JOHNSON, J., EBERLEIN, L., ZAKRAJSEK, A., SIMOTACCHI, L., GROH, A., DIETRICH, R., RICHTER, A. (2016) GNSS measurements in the region of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula constrain solid earth deformation. SCAR Open Science Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20th-30th August 2016

JOHNSON, J.S., SCHAEFER, J.M., FINKEL, R.C. (2015) Evidence for ice cover in the Lassiter Coast region, western Weddell Sea Embayment, Antarctica. INQUA, Nagoya, Japan, 26th July-2nd August 2015

JOHNSON, J.S., ROBERTS, S.J., ROOD, D.H., SCHAEFER, J.M., WHITEHOUSE, P.W., POLLARD, D. (2015) Reconstructing West Antarctic Ice Sheet history in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, using high-precision cosmogenic dating. INQUA, Nagoya, Japan, 26th July-2nd August 2015

SMELLIE, J. L., JOHNSON, J. S., NELSON, A. E. (2013) New 1:125 000-scale geological map of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, the most important terrestrial repository of Neogene palaeoenvironmental information in the Antarctic Peninsula—Scotia Sea region. The Scotia Arc: Geodynamic Evolution and Global Implications, Granada, May 2013.

LINDOW, J., CASTEX, M., KAMP, P., JOHNSON, J.S. , WITTMANN, H., LISKER, F., GOHL, K., SPIEGEL, C. (2012) The exhumation history of eastern Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica –tectonic evolution and glacial dynamics. Thermo 2012, Guilin, China, 24-28th August 2012.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., SCHAEFER, J. M., FOGWILL, C. J., SMITH, J. A., SCHIMMELPFENNIG, I., GOHL, K. (2011) Rapid early- to mid-Holocene thinning of Pine Island Glacier detected cosmogenic exposure dating. West Antarctic Ice Sheet workshop, Loveland, Colorado, 21st-23rd September 2011.

JOHNSON, J. S., , EVEREST, J. D., LEAT, P. T., GOLLEDGE, N. R., ROOD, D. H., STUART, F. M. (2011) The deglacial history of NW Alexander Island, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating. International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, 10-16th July 2011.

JOHNSON, J. S. , SCHAEFER, J. M., SCHIMMELPFENNIG, I., SMITH, J. A., BENTLEY, M. J., FOGWILL, C. J., GOHL, K. (2011) Pine Island Glacier had thinned close to present limits by the mid-Holocene. International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, 10-16th July 2011.

LINDOW, J., SPIEGEL, C., JOHNSON, J. S., CASTEX, M., LISKER, F., GOHL, K. (2011) Glacial retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum – new constraints from the Walgreen Coast, west Antarctica. International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Edinburgh, UK, 10th-16th July 2011.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., ROBERTS, S. J., BINNIE, S. A., FREEMAN, S.P.H.T. (2010) Holocene deglacial history of the north east Antarctic Peninsula. 6th Antarctic Peninsula Climate Change meeting, Leeds, UK, 22nd-23rd July 2010.

BENTLEY, M. J., JOHNSON, J. S., LARTER, R. D., FOGWILL, C. J. (2009) What do we know about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum, and its deglacial history? Antarctic Climate Evolution symposium, Grenada, Spain, 7th-11th September 2009.

LARTER, R. D., GRAHAM, A. G. C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., JOHNSON, J. S., SMITH, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J. (2009) Things we don’t know about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Last Glacial Maximum. Antarctic Climate Evolution symposium, Grenada, Spain, 7th-11th September 2009.

SMELLIE, J. L., HAYWOOD, A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., JOHNSON, J. S., NELSON, A. E., HAMBREY, M. J., LUNT, D., VALDES, P. (2009) Seven million year history of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet revealed by coupled geological and climate modelling studies. Antarctic Climate Evolution symposium, Grenada, Spain, 7th-11th September 2009.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., GOHL, K. (2008) First exposure ages from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica: The Late Quaternary context for recent thinning of Pine Island, Smith and Pope Glaciers. EGU, Vienna, 14th-18th April 2008.

SMELLIE, J. L., NELSON, A. E., JOHNSON, J. S., MCINTOSH, W. C., ESSER, R., GUDMUNDSSON, M. T., HAMBREY, M. J., VAN WYK DE VRIES, B. (2007) Six million years of environmental (glacial-interglacial) conditions preserved in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, northern Antarctic Peninsula. ISAES, Santa Barbara, USA, August 2007.

JOHNSON, J. S., BENTLEY, M. J., GOHL, K. (2007) Deglaciation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: surface exposure dating in the Amundsen Sea region. INQUA, Cairns, Australia, 28th July-3rd August 2007.

JOHNSON, J. S., GOHL, K., O’DONOVAN, T. L., BENTLEY, M. J. (2006) Surface exposure dating using cosmogenic isotopes: a field campaign in Marie Byrd Land and the Hudson Mountains. West Antarctic Ice Sheet meeting, Pack Forest, Eatonville, USA, September 2006.

JOHNSON, J. S. & SMELLIE, J. L. (2004) Determining Eruptive Palaeoenvironment: a Study of Alteration Minerals from the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, Antarctica. IAVCEI meeting, Pucon, Chile, November 2004.

GARNER, J. S., GIBSON, S. A., THOMPSON, R. N., NOWELL, G. M. (2001) Contribution of pyroxenite-derived melts to Baikal rift-related magmatism. EOS 82(47), F1396.

GARNER, J. S., GIBSON, S. A., THOMPSON, R. N. (2001) Lithospheric thinning associated with the Baikal Rift, Siberia: geochemical evidence from the Vitim volcanic field. Abstract volume, Volcanic & Magmatic Studies Group 2001.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2023

Balco, Greg, Brown, Nathan, Nichols, Keir, Venturelli, Ryan A., Adams, Jonathan, Braddock, Scott, Campbell, Seth, Goehring, Brent, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Rood, Dylan H., Wilcken, Klaus, Hall, Brenda, Woodward, John. (2023) Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene. The Cryosphere, 17. 1787-1801. 10.5194/tc-17-1787-2023

2022

Adams, Jonathan R., Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Mason, Philippa J., Nichols, Keir A., Venturelli, Ryan A., Wilcken, Klaus, Balco, Greg, Goehring, Brent, Hall, Brenda, Woodward, John, Rood, Dylan H.. (2022) New 10Be ages improve Holocene ice sheet thinning history near the grounding line of Pope Glacier, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 16. 4887-4905. 10.5194/tc-16-4887-2022

Jones, Richard S., Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Lin, Yucheng, Mackintosh, Andrew N., Sefton, Juliet P., Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Whitehouse, Pippa L.. (2022) Stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet during the pre-industrial Holocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3. 16 pp. 10.1038/s43017-022-00309-5

Braddock, Scott, Hall, Brenda L., Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Balco, Greg, Spoth, Meghan, Whitehouse, Pippa L., Campbell, Seth, Goehring, Brent M., Rood, Dylan H., Woodward, John. (2022) Relative sea-level data preclude major late Holocene ice-mass change in Pine Island Bay. Nature Geoscience, 15. 6 pp. 10.1038/s41561-022-00961-y

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Venturelli, Ryan A., Balco, Greg, Allen, Claire S. ORCIDORCID record for Claire S. Allen, Braddock, Scott, Campbell, Seth, Goehring, Brent M., Hall, Brenda L., Neff, Peter D., Nichols, Keir A., Rood, Dylan H., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas, Woodward, John. (2022) Existing and potential evidence for Holocene grounding line retreat and readvance in Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 16. 1543-1562. 10.5194/tc-16-1543-2022

2021

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Pollard, David, Whitehouse, Pippa L., Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Rood, Dylan H., Schaefer, Joerg M.. (2021) Comparing glacial‐geological evidence and model simulations of ice sheet change since the last glacial period in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126. 20 pp. 10.1029/2020JF005827

2020

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Rood, Dylan H., Pollard, David, Schaefer, Joerg M., Whitehouse, Pippa L., Ireland, Louise C. ORCIDORCID record for Louise C. Ireland, Lamp, Jennifer L., Goehring, Brent M., Rand, Cari, Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith. (2020) Deglaciation of Pope Glacier implies widespread early Holocene ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica.. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 548. 13 pp. 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116501

2019

Nichols, Keir A., Goehring, Brent M., Balco, Greg, Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson, Hein, Andrew S., Todd, Claire. (2019) New Last Glacial Maximum ice thickness constraints for the Weddell Sea Embayment, Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 13. 2935-2951. 10.5194/tc-13-2935-2019

Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson, Nichols, Keir A, Goehring, Brent M, Balco, Greg, Schaefer, Joerg M. (2019) Abrupt mid-Holocene ice loss in the western Weddell Sea Embayment of Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 518. 127-135. 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.002

2018

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, O'Donnell, John P., Thomas, Elizabeth R. ORCIDORCID record for Elizabeth R. Thomas. (2018) In situ measurements of snow accumulation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during 2016. Antarctic Science, 30. 197-203. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102018000068

Smellie, J.L., Rocchi, S., Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Di Vicenzo, G., Schaefer, J.M.. (2018) A tuff cone erupted under frozen-bed ice (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica): linking glaciovolcanic and cosmogenic nuclide data for ice sheet reconstructions. Bulletin of Volcanology, 80. 10.1007/s00445-017-1185-x

2017

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Schaefer, Joerg M., Young, Nicolas E., Goehring, Brent M., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Lamp, Jennifer L., Finkel, Robert C., Gohl, Karsten. (2017) The last glaciation of Bear Peninsula, central Amundsen Sea Embayment of Antarctica: Constraints on timing and duration revealed by in situ cosmogenic 14C and 10Be dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 178. 77-88. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.11.003

2014

Bentley, Michael J., Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Anderson, John B., Conway, Howard, Davies, Bethan, Graham, Alastair G.C., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Larter, Robert D. ORCIDORCID record for Robert D. Larter, Mackintosh, Andrew, Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Verleyen, Elie, Ackert, Robert P., Bart, Philip J., Berg, Sonja, Brunstein, Daniel, Canals, Miquel, Colhoun, Eric A., Crosta, Xavier, Dickens, William A., Domack, Eugene, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Dunbar, Robert, Ehrmann, Werner, Evans, Jeffrey, Favier, Vincent, Fink, David, Fogwill, Christopher J., Glasser, Neil F., Gohl, Karsten, Golledge, Nicholas R., Goodwin, Ian, Gore, Damian B., Greenwood, Sarah L., Hall, Brenda L., Hall, Kevin, Hedding, David W., Hein, Andrew S., Hocking, Emma P., Jakobsson, Martin, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Jomelli, Vincent, Jones, R. Selwyn, Klages, Johann P., Kristoffersen, Yngve, Kuhn, Gerhard, Leventer, Amy, Licht, Kathy, Lilly, Katherine, Lindow, Julia, Livingstone, Stephen J., Massé, Guillaume, McGlone, Matt S., McKay, Robert M., Melles, Martin, Miura, Hideki, Mulvaney, Robert ORCIDORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Nel, Werner, Nitsche, Frank O., O'Brien, Philip E., Post, Alexandra L., Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Saunders, Krystyna M., Selkirk, Patricia M., Simms, Alexander R., Spiegel, Cornelia, Stolldorf, Travis D., Sugden, David E., van der Putten, Nathalie, van Ommen, Tas, Verfaillie, Deborah, Vyverman, Wim, Wagner, Bernd, White, Duanne A., Witus, Alexandra E., Zwartz, Dan. (2014) A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100. 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.025

Larter, Robert D. ORCIDORCID record for Robert D. Larter, Anderson, John B., Graham, Alastair G.C., Gohl, Karsten, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Jakobsson, Martin, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Kuhn, Gerhard, Nitsche, Frank O., Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Witus, Alexandra E., Bentley, Michael J., Dowdeswell, Julian A., Ehrmann, Werner, Klages, Johann P., Lindow, Julia, Cofaigh, Colm Ó, Spiegel, Cornelia. (2014) Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100. 55-86. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.016

Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Davies, Bethan J., Livingstone, Stephen J., Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Hocking, Emma P., Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Anderson, John B., Bentley, Michael J., Canals, Miquel, Domack, Eugene, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Evans, Jeffrey, Glasser, Neil F., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Larter, Robert D. ORCIDORCID record for Robert D. Larter, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Simms, Alexander R.. (2014) Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100. 87-110. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.023

Lindow, Julia, Castex, Marion, Wittmann, Hella, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Lisker, Frank, Gohl, Karsten, Spiegel, Cornelia. (2014) Glacial retreat in the Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica – first cosmogenic evidence from central Pine Island Bay and the Kohler Range. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98. 166-173. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.010

Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Bentley, M.J., Smith, J.A. ORCIDORCID record for J.A. Smith, Finkel, R.C., Rood, D.H., Gohl, H., Balco, G., Larter, R.D. ORCIDORCID record for R.D. Larter, Schaefer, J.M.. (2014) Rapid thinning of Pine Island Glacier in the early Holocene. Science, 343. 999-1001. 10.1126/science.1247385

2013

Smellie, J.L., Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Nelson, A.E.. (2013) Geological map of James Ross Island. I. James Ross Island volcanic group. British Antarctic Survey GEOMAP 2. Cambridge, British Antarctic Survey.

2012

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Everest, Jeremy, Leat, Philip T., Golledge, Nicholas, Rood, Dylan H., Stuart, Finlay M.. (2012) The deglacial history of NW Alexander Island, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating. Quaternary Research, 77. 273-280. 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.11.012

2011

Bentley, M.J., Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Hodgson, D.A. ORCIDORCID record for D.A. Hodgson, Dunai, T., Freeman, S.P.H.T., Ó Cofaigh, C.. (2011) Rapid deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula in the Early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30. 3338-3349. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.09.002

Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson, Bentley, Michael, Roberts, Stephen ORCIDORCID record for Stephen Roberts, Binnie, Steven A., Freeman, Stewart P.H.T.. (2011) Holocene deglacial history of the northeast Antarctic Peninsula – A review and new chronological constraints. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30. 3791-3802. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.011

2010

Golledge, Nicholas, Everest, Jeremy, Bradwell, Tom, Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson. (2010) Lichenometry on Adelaide Island, Antarctic Peninsula : size-frequency studies, growth rates and snowpatches. Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical Geography, 92. 111-124. 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00381.x

2009

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Smellie, John L., Nelson, Anna E., Stuart, Finlay M.. (2009) History of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet since the early Pliocene – Evidence from cosmogenic dating of Pliocene lavas on James Ross Island, Antarctica. Global and Planetary Change, 69. 205-213. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.09.001

Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCIDORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCIDORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Bentley, Michael J., Smith, James A. ORCIDORCID record for James A. Smith, Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Verleyen, Elie, Vyverman, Wim, Hodson, Andy J., Leng, Melanie J., Cziferszky, Andreas ORCIDORCID record for Andreas Cziferszky. (2009) Exploring former subglacial Hodgson Lake, Antarctica Paper I: site description, geomorphology and limnology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28. 2295. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.011

2008

Hambrey, Michael J., Smellie, John, Nelson, Anna E., Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson. (2008) Late Cenozoic glacier-volcano interaction on James Ross Island and adjacent areas, Antarctic Peninsula region. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120. 709-731. 10.1130/B26242.1

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Bentley, Michael J., Gohl, Karsten. (2008) First exposure ages from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica: the Late Quaternary context for recent thinning of Pine Island, Smith and Pope Glaciers. Geology, 36. 223-226. 10.1130/G24207A.1

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter ORCIDORCID record for Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Smellie, John L., Rocchi, Sergio. (2008) The last deglaciation of Cape Adare, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 20. 581-587. 10.1017/S0954102008001417

Smellie, John L., Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson, McIntosh, W.C., Esser, R., Gudmundsson, M.T., Hambrey, M.J., van Wyk de Vries, B.. (2008) Six million years of glacial history recorded in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 260. 122-148. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.011

2007

Smellie, J.L., Nelson, A.E., Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, McIntosh, W.C., Esser, R., Gudmundsson, M.T., Hambrey, M.J., van Wyk de Vries, B.. (2007) Six million years of environmental (glacial – interglacial) conditions preserved in volcanic lithofacies of the James Ross Island Volcanic Group, northern Antarctic Peninsula. In: Cooper, A.K., Raymond, C.R., ISAES Editorial Team, . (eds.). Antarctica: a keystone in a changing world. Online proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, August 26 - September 1, 2007, National Academy Press, 4 pp. (U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, ).

Larter, R.D. ORCIDORCID record for R.D. Larter, Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C.-D. ORCIDORCID record for C.-D. Hillenbrand, Kuhn, G., Deen, T.J., Dietrich, R., Eagles, G., Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Livermore, R.A., Nitsche, F.O., Pudsey, C.J., Schenke, H.-W., Smith, J.A. ORCIDORCID record for J.A. Smith, Udintsev, G., Uenzelmann-Neben, G.. (2007) West Antarctic Ice Sheet change since the last glacial period. Eos. Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 88. 189-190. 10.1029/2007EO170001

Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Smellie, John L.. (2007) Zeolite compositions as proxies for eruptive paleoenvironment. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8. 19 pp. 10.1029/2006GC001450

Graham, A.G.C., Larter, R.D. ORCIDORCID record for R.D. Larter, Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C.-D. ORCIDORCID record for C.-D. Hillenbrand, Smith, J.A. ORCIDORCID record for J.A. Smith, Johnson, J.S. ORCIDORCID record for J.S. Johnson, Kuhn, G.. (2007) Late Quaternary ice sheet dynamics and deglaciation history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Amundsen Sea Embayment: preliminary results from recent research cruises. In: Cooper, A.K., Raymond, C.R. (eds.). Antarctica: a keystone in a changing world. Online proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, California, August 26 - September 1, 2007, National Academy Press, 4 pp. (U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, ).

2006

Williams, Mark, Smellie, John L., Johnson, Joanne S. ORCIDORCID record for Joanne S. Johnson, Blake, Daniel B.. (2006) Late Miocene asterozoans (Echinodermata) from the James Ross Island Volcanic Group. Antarctic Science, 18. 117-122. doi:10.1017/S0954102006000113

2004

Johnson, Joanne ORCIDORCID record for Joanne Johnson. (2004) Ancient Antarctica. Planet Earth, Spring. 32-32.