Publications

Peer-reviewed articles
  1. Yan, P., D. M. Holland, V. C. Tsai, I. Vaňková, and S. Xie (2024): Tidally-modulated glacial slip and tremor at Helheim Glacier, Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 51(1).
  2. Vaňková, I., J. P. Winberry, S. Cook, K. W. Nicholls, C. A. Greene, and B. K. Galton-Fenzi (2023): High spatial melt rate variability near the Totten Glacier grounding zone explained by new bathymetry inversion, Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10).
  3. Cook S., K. W. Nicholls, I. Vaňková , S. S. Thompson, and B. K. Galton-Fenzi (2023): Data initiatives for ocean-driven melt of Antarctic ice shelves, Annals of Glaciology.
  4. Davis P. E. D., K. W. Nicholls, D. M. Holland, B. E. Schmidt, P. Washam, K. L. Riverman, R. J. Arthern, I. Vaňková, C Eayrs, J. A. Smith, P. G. D. Anker, A. D. Mullen, D. Dichek, J. D. Lawrence, M. M. Meister, E. Clyne, A. Basinski-Ferris, E. Rignot, B. Y. Queste, L. Boehme, K. J. Heywood, S. Anandakrishnan, and K. Makinson (2023): Suppressed basal melting in the eastern Thwaites Glacier grounding zone, Nature, 614.
  5. Vaňková, I. and K. W. Nicholls (2022): Ocean variability beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf inferred from basal melt rate time series, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 127.
    6. Paper featured as a Research Spotlight in the AGU's Eos magazine.
  6. Vaňková, I. , K. W. Nicholls, and H. F. J. Corr (2021): The nature of ice intermittently accreted at the base of Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, assessed using phase-sensitive radar, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(10).
  7. Vaňková, I. (2021): Calving prediction from ice mélange motion, Nature Geoscience, 14(6).
  8. Vaňková, I., S. Cook, J. P. Winberry, K. W. Nicholls, and B. K. Galton-Fenzi (2021): Deriving melt rates at a complex ice shelf base using in-situ radar: Application to Totten Ice Shelf, Geophysical Research Letters, 48(7).
  9. Bull, C. Y. S., A. Jenkins, N. C. Jourdain, Vaňková I., P. R. Holland, P. Mathiot, U. Hausmann and J.-B. Sallée (2021): Remote control of Filchner‐Ronne Ice Shelf melt rates by the Antarctic Slope Current, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(2).
  10. Vaňková, I., K. W. Nicholls, S. Xie, B. R. Parizek, D. Voytenko and D. M. Holland (2020): Depth-dependent artifacts resulting from ApRES signal clipping, Annals of Glaciology, 61(81).
  11. Vaňková, I., K. W. Nicholls, H. F. J. Corr, K. Makinson and P. V. Brennan (2020): Observations of tidal melt and vertical strain at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(1).
  12. Xie, S., T. H. Dixon, D. M. Holland, D. Voytenko and I. Vaňková (2019): Rapid iceberg calving following removal of tightly packed pro-glacial mélange, Nature Communications, 10(1).
  13. Parizek, B. R., K. Christianson, R. B. Alley, D. Voytenko, I. Vaňková, T. H. Dixon, R. T. Walker and D. M. Holland (2019): Ice-cliff failure via retrogressive slumping, Geology, 47(5).
  14. Vaňková, I., D. Voytenko, K. W. Nicholls, S. Xie, B. R. Parizek and D. M. Holland (2018): Vertical structure of diurnal englacial hydrology cycle at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 45(16).
  15. Vaňková, I. and D. M. Holland (2017): A model of icebergs and sea ice in a joint continuum framework, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(11).
  16. Holland, D. M., D. Voytenko, K. Christianson, T. H. Dixon, M.J. Mei, B. R. Parizek, I. Vaňková, R. T. Walker, J. I. Walter, K. W. Nicholls and D. Holland (2016): An intensive observation of calving at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland, Oceanography, 29(4).
  17. Vaňková, I. and D. M. Holland (2016): Calving signature in ocean waves at Helheim Glacier and Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46(10).
  18. Lee, L., G. Lyng and I. Vaňková (2012): The Gaussian semiclassical soliton ensemble and numerical methods for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Physica D, 241(21).
  19. Lee, L. and I. Vaňková (2011): A class of Cartesian grid embedded boundary algorithms for incompressible flow with time-varying complex geometries, Physica D, 240(20).
Reports
  1. McCormack, F., S. Cook, S. Phillips, S. Adusumilli, T. Hattermann, Y. Nakayama, I. Nias, H. Seroussi, D. Slater, C. Begeman, D. Goldberg, R. Jackson, A. Jenkins, N. Jourdain, M. Rosevear, I. Vaňková, & A. Wåhlin (2023). Ice-Ocean Melt: Future Research Directions. Report on the 1st JCIOI workshop on ice-ocean interaction, 17-19th Oct 2022.
Thesis
  1. Vaňková, I. (2018): Ice and Ocean Dynamics in a Glacier Fjord, PhD dissertation, New York University.

Conference presentations and seminars

    2023
  1. Sub-ice shelf circulation and melt rate variability in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model
    1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. (poster)
  2. Melt rates, bathymetry, and melt rate variability near the Totten Glacier grounding zone
    1. Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP 2023), Stalheim, Norway. (poster)
  3. Melt rate variability and circulation in Antarctic ice-shelf cavities, from in-situ radar observations
    1. MISU Seminar Series, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. (invited)
  4. Sub-ice shelf circulation and melt rate variability in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model
    1. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria. (poster)
  5. Ocean variability beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf inferred from basal melt rate time series
    1. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria. (poster)
  6. Melt rate variability and circulation in Antarctic ice-shelf cavities, from in-situ radar observations
    1. Lunchtime Seminar Series, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. (invited)
  7. Melt rate variability and circulation in Antarctic ice-shelf cavities, from in-situ radar observations
    1. Marine Geology and Geophysics/Seismology, Geology, and Tectonophysics Seminar Series, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York, USA. (invited)
    2022
  8. Ocean variability beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf inferred from basal melt rate time series
    1. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (poster)
  9. Exploring ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves with radar
    1. Science Cafe, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
  10. Observing and understanding variability in sub-ice-shelf circulation and basal melting
    1. Joint Commission on Ice-Ocean Interactions virtual workshop. (invited keynote address on the topic of "New and Emerging Technologies")
  11. Inferring ocean variability in ice-shelf cavities from basal melt rate time series
    1. West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop, Estes Park, Colorado, USA. (talk)
  12. Ocean variability beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, from observations
    1. Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
  13. Observing interactions between ocean and ice shelves in Antarctica
    1. Climate and Math Conference, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. (invited)
  14. Exploring ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves with radar
    1. Earth & Planetary Sciences Special Colloquium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (invited)
  15. ApRES on the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. Science Seminar, Rothera Research Station, Adelaide Island, Antarctica. (invited)
    2021
  16. Exploring ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves with radar
    1. Special Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. (invited)
  17. Exploring ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves with radar
    1. Physical Geography and Geoecology Seminar, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. (invited)
  18. Exploring ocean dynamics beneath ice shelves with radar
    1. Physical Oceanography Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA. (invited)
  19. Seasonal and inter-annual melt rate variability at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. Polar Oceans Seminar, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.
    2020
  20. Radar observations of physical processes at the base of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. American Geophysical Union - Fall Meeting, virtual. (invited)
  21. Detecting ocean dynamics beneath Antarctic ice shelves with a radar
    1. Darwin Science Seminar, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (invited)
  22. Observing ice shelf basal melt at sites with complex basal geometries at the Totten Ice Shelf
    1. Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP 2020), virtual conference. (talk)
  23. Monitoring of basal melt at Antarctic Ice Shelves - observations, processes, and model comparisons
    1. Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Seminar, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. (invited)
  24. Observing ice shelf basal melt at sites with complex basal geometries
    1. Ice & Climate Group Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (invited)
  25. Observations of sub-monthly melt rate variability at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. (poster)
  26. Detection of melt at the ice shelf base with a phase-sensitive radar
    1. Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics Group Seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (invited)
    2019
  27. Monitoring of basal melt at the Filcher-Ronne Ice Shelf - observations, processes, and model comparisons
    1. Seminar, Climate Change Research Center, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
  28. Monitoring of basal melt at the Filcher-Ronne Ice Shelf - observations, processes, and model comparisons
    1. Seminar, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia. (invited)
  29. Detection of fast time scale processes in the ice and ocean with ApRES
    1. Glaciology Seminar, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. (invited)
  30. Tidal melt and vertical strain observations at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP 2019), Oxford, UK. (talk)
  31. Detecting oceanic variability at the ice sheet edges of Greenland and Antarctica
    1. CEOS Seminar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. (invited)
  32. A model of icebergs and sea ice in a joint continuum framework
    1. Modeling Seminar, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. (invited)
  33. High-frequency melt and vertical strain observations at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. Antarctic Seminar, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. (invited)
  34. Greenland glacier fjord hydrographic variability driven by Irminger Sea winter convection
    1. Arctic Seminar, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany. (invited)
  35. Greenland glacier fjord hydrographic variability driven by Irminger Sea winter convection
    1. Bjerknes Seminar, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway. (invited)
  36. Greenland glacier fjord hydrographic variability driven by Irminger Sea winter convection
    1. Glaciology Seminar, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (invited)
  37. Using ApRES to infer tidal melt rates and vertical strain rates at the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
    1. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria. (poster)
  38. Sources of interannual variability in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
    1. Geophysical and Environmental Processes Seminar, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. (invited)
    2018
  39. Vertical structure of diurnal englacial hydrology cycle at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland
    1. American Geophysical Union - Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., USA. (talk)
  40. Vertical structure of diurnal englacial hydrology cycle at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland
    1. Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP 2018), Aussois, France. (talk)
  41. Sources of interannual variability in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
    1. Oceans Melting Greenland Science Team Meeting, La Jolla, California. (talk)
  42. Sources of interannual variability in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
    1. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon. (poster)
    2017
  43. Direct observations of fast ice dynamics and high strain rates at Helheim Glacier, East Greenland
    1. West Antarctic Ice Sheet Workshop, Coupeville, Washington. (poster)
  44. Sources of interannual variability in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
    1. Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP 2017), Bergen, Norway. (talk)
  45. Sources of interannual variability in Sermilik Fjord, East Greenland
    1. Observing and Understanding the Ocean beneath Antarctic Sea Ice and Ice Shelves, Bremerhaven, Germany. (talk)
  46. A model of icebergs and sea ice in a joint continuum framework
    1. General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria. (talk)
    2016
  47. Icebergs in sea ice framework: Ideas towards a numerical model of ice mélange
    1. Young Scientist Seminar, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany. (invited)
  48. Icebergs in sea ice framework: Ideas towards a numerical model of ice mélange
    1. Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean, La Jolla, California. (talk)
  49. Icebergs in sea ice framework: Ideas towards a numerical model of ice mélange
    1. MISOMIP II meeting, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. (talk)
    2015
  50. Calving signature in ocean waves: Helheim Glacier and Sermilik Fjord dynamics
    1. American Geophysical Union - Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California. (invited)
  51. Calving signature in ocean waves: Helheim Glacier and Sermilik Fjord dynamics
    1. Ocean Campus Summer School, Escola Naval, Lisbon, Portugal. (poster)