Sridhar Anandakrishnan 
EESI Associate
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990
Penn State Ice and Climate Exploration
EMS Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
442 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-6742
email: sak@essc.psu.edu
Dept: web site: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/
Center web site: http://www.eesi.psu.edu/centers/ice.shtml
Current Research Interests:
Glaciology, ice stream migration, time-series investigations, polar regions and Antarctic ice sheet studies and Antarctic tectonics.
Selected Publications:
S. Anandakrishnan, D. E. Voigt, R. B. Alley, and M. A. King, Ice stream D flow speed is strongly modulated by the tide beneath the Ross Ice Shelf. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(7), 13-1–13-4, 2003.
R. A. Bindschadler, M. A. King, R. B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, and L. Padman, Tidally controlled stickslip discharge of a West Antarctic Ice Stream, Science, 301:1087–1089, 2003.
Anandakrishnan, S., Dilatant till layer layer near the onset of streaming flow of ice stream C, determinedby AVO analysis, Ann. Glaciol., 36:283–286, 2003.
Anandakrishnan, S., R. B. Alley, R. W. Jacobel, and H. Conway, The flow regime of ice stream C and hypotheses concerning its recent stagnation, in The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Behavior and Environment , ed: R. B. Alley and R. A. Bindschadler, Antarctic Research Series, pp. 283–296, AGU, 2001.
Anandakrishnan, S., D. E. Voigt, P. Burkett, B. Long, and R. C. Henry, Deployment of a broadband seismic network in West Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2053–2056, 2000.
Anandakrishnan, S., D. D. Blankenship, R. B. Alley, and P. L. Stoffa. Influence of subglacial geology on the position of a West Antarctica ice stream from seismic measurements, Nature, v. 394, pp. 62–65, 1998.
Anandakrishnan, S. and R. B. Alley. Tidal forcing of basal seismicity of ice stream C, West Antarctica seen far inland. J. Geophys. Res., 102(B7): 15183–15196, 1997.
Anandakrishnan, S. and C. R. Bentley. Microearthquakes beneath ice streams B & C, West Antarctica: Observations and implication. J. Glac., v. 39, no. 133, pp. 455–462, 1993.