Andrew Roberts Post-Doctoral Fellow phone: 907-474-2447 email: arobertsiarc.uaf.edu office: Akasofu 408 E www: http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~aroberts/ International Arctic Research Center 930 Koyukuk Drive P.O. Box 757340 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

Education

Ph.D., Meteorology, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center, University of Tasmania, Australia, 2005
B. Sc. (Hons), Earth Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 1993

Research Interests

• Industrial meteorology
• Changes in the kinetic energy spectrum of the ice-ocean boundary layer as result of atmospheric storm impulses.
• Influence of sea ice mechanics and atmosphere-ice-ocean energy exchanges
• Arctic System Modeling

IARC Publications

published or accepted, refereed publications and books

• Roberts, A., J.E. Walsh, L. Hinzman, R. Doescher, A. Sumi, M. Holland, J. Cassano, W. Maslowski, W. Gutowski, J. Hel (2009), Towards a community Arctic System Model, Ice and Climate News, 10, 14-15.
• Hutchings, J.K., C. Geiger, A. Roberts, J. Richter-Menge, J. Doble, R. Forsberg, K. Giles, C. Haas, S.M. Hendricks, C. Khambhamettu, S.W. Laxon, T. Martin, M. Pruis, M. Thomas, P. Wadhams, J. Zwally (2008), Exploring the role of ice dynamics in the sea ice mass balance, EOS.
• Hutchings, J.K., C. Petrich, R. Lindsay, A. Roberts, J. Zhang (2008), 'The use of models in the design and interpretation of filed measurements' in Sea Ice Handbook (UAF Press - in press), Ed. H. Eicken, .
• Hibler III, W.D., A. Roberts, P. Heil, A.Y. Proshutinsky, H.L. Simmons, J. Lovick (2006), Modeling M2 tidal variability in Arctic sea-ice drift and deformation, Annals of Glaciology, 44, 418-428.