Marika Holland

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Marika M. Holland
Alma materUniversity of Colorado Boulder
Scientific career
InstitutionsNational Center for Atmospheric Research
Thesis Climate change and variability in a single column coupled sea ice/ocean mixed layer model  (1997)

Marika Holland is a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research known for her work on modeling sea ice and its role in the global climate.

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Education and career

Holland has a B.A.[ when? ] and a Ph.D. (1997) [1] from the University of Colorado Boulder. [2] Following her Ph.D. Holland was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria until 1999 when she joined the staff at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). [3] Holland was Chief Scientist for the Community Earth System Model (CESM) from 2012 until 2014 [4] and received the CESM Distinguished Achievement Award for her work in 2014. [5]

Research

Holland is known for her research predicting sea ice on different time scales. Holland's modeling of sea ice began with considerations of the processes that define the actions of sea ice in climate models. [6] [7] [8] In 2003, Holland and Celia Bitz modeled how changes in the Arctic climate alter the degree of polar amplification in climate models. [9] Holland's work on future sea ice predict an ice-free Arctic Ocean by 2040, [10] research that was broadly covered in the news. [11] [12] Research by Holland and others then showed that sea ice was declining faster than the predictions. [13] Holland has also worked with biologists to assess how changes in sea ice impact Emperor penguins [14] [15] and Adelie penguins. [16] Holland has been a contributing author on the third, [17] fourth, [18] and fifth [19] assessment reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2020 Holland was named an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for sustained contributions in polar research and climate modeling". [20]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

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References

  1. ↑ Holland, Marika M (1997). Climate change and variability in a single column coupled sea ice/ocean mixed layer model (Thesis). OCLC   38751661.
  2. ↑ "Marika Holland | staff.ucar.edu". staff.ucar.edu. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Marika Holland". ARCUS. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  4. ↑ "State of the CESM. CESM Advisory Board Meeting February Marika Holland CESM Chief Scientist - PDF Free Download". businessdocbox.com. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  5. 1 2 "2014-Marika Holland". CESM NCAR. Archived from the original on September 14, 2016. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  6. ↑ Holland, Marika M.; Schramm, Julie L.; Curry, Judith A. (1997). "Thermodynamic feedback processes in a single-column sea-ice–ocean model". Annals of Glaciology. 25: 327–332. Bibcode:1997AnGla..25..327H. doi: 10.3189/S0260305500014233 . ISSN   0260-3055.
  7. ↑ Holland, M. M.; Curry, J. A.; Schramm, J. L. (1997). "Modeling the thermodynamics of a sea ice thickness distribution: 2. Sea ice/ocean interactions". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 102 (C10): 23093–23107. Bibcode:1997JGR...10223093H. doi: 10.1029/97JC01296 . ISSN   2156-2202.
  8. ↑ Bitz, C. M.; Holland, M. M.; Weaver, A. J.; Eby, M. (2001). "Simulating the ice-thickness distribution in a coupled climate model". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 106 (C2): 2441–2463. Bibcode:2001JGR...106.2441B. doi: 10.1029/1999JC000113 . ISSN   2156-2202.
  9. ↑ Holland, M. M.; Bitz, C. M. (September 1, 2003). "Polar amplification of climate change in coupled models". Climate Dynamics. 21 (3–4): 221–232. Bibcode:2003ClDy...21..221H. doi:10.1007/s00382-003-0332-6. ISSN   0930-7575. S2CID   17003665.
  10. ↑ Holland, Marika M.; Bitz, Cecilia M.; Tremblay, Bruno (December 12, 2006). "Future abrupt reductions in the summer Arctic sea ice". Geophysical Research Letters. 33 (23): L23503. Bibcode:2006GeoRL..3323503H. doi:10.1029/2006GL028024. ISSN   0094-8276. S2CID   14187034.
  11. ↑ Revkin, Andrew C. (December 12, 2006). "By 2040, Greenhouse Gases Could Lead to an Open Arctic Sea in Summers". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  12. ↑ Gertner, Jon (July 29, 2016). "Does the Disappearance of Sea Ice Matter?". The New York Times. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  13. ↑ Stroeve, Julienne; Holland, Marika M.; Meier, Walt; Scambos, Ted; Serreze, Mark (2007). "Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast". Geophysical Research Letters. 34 (9). Bibcode:2007GeoRL..34.9501S. doi: 10.1029/2007GL029703 . ISSN   1944-8007.
  14. ↑ Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Caswell, Hal; Barbraud, Christophe; Holland, Marika; Strœve, Julienne; Weimerskirch, Henri (February 10, 2009). "Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the decline of an emperor penguin population". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (6): 1844–1847. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806638106 . PMC   2644125 . PMID   19171908.
  15. ↑ Jenouvrier, Stephanie; Che-Castaldo, Judy; Wolf, Shaye; Holland, Marika; Labrousse, Sara; LaRue, Michelle; Wienecke, Barbara; Fretwell, Peter; Barbraud, Christophe; Greenwald, Noah; Stroeve, Julienne (2021). "The call of the emperor penguin: Legal responses to species threatened by climate change". Global Change Biology. 27 (20): 5008–5029. doi:10.1111/gcb.15806. ISSN   1365-2486. PMC   9291047 . PMID   34342929. S2CID   236885673.
  16. ↑ Che-Castaldo, Christian; Jenouvrier, Stephanie; Youngflesh, Casey; Shoemaker, Kevin T.; Humphries, Grant; McDowall, Philip; Landrum, Laura; Holland, Marika M.; Li, Yun; Ji, Rubao; Lynch, Heather J. (October 10, 2017). "Pan-Antarctic analysis aggregating spatial estimates of Adélie penguin abundance reveals robust dynamics despite stochastic noise". Nature Communications. 8 (1): 832. Bibcode:2017NatCo...8..832C. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00890-0. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   5635117 . PMID   29018199.
  17. ↑ "Chapter 8: Model evaluation". archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  18. ↑ "Chapter 8: Climate Models and their Evaluation" (PDF). archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  19. ↑ "Chapter 12: Long-term Climate Change:Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility" (PDF). archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved August 18, 2021.
  20. 1 2 "Holland". Honors Program. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Marika Holland". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  22. ↑ "IASC Medal 2019 Awarded to Dr. Marika Holland - International Arctic Science Committee". iasc.info. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  23. ↑ "List of Fellows". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
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