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
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:
Horgan, H.J., R. Walker, S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley. Surface Elevation Changes at the Front of the Ross Ice Shelf; Implications for Basal Melting. Journal of Geophysical Research 116, C02005, 12 pp., (2011).
Winberry, J.P., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, D.A. Wiens, K. Christianson. Dynamics of Stick-slip motion, Whillans Ice Stream, Antarctica, , Earth Planetary Science Letters 305(3-4), 283-289 (2011).
Parizek, B.R, R.B. Alley, T.K. Dupont, R.K. Walker, and S. Anandakrishnan. Effect of orbital-scale climate cycling and meltwater drainage on ice sheet grounding line migration, Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface v. 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JF001325 (2010).
Pyle, M.L., D.A. Wiens, A.A. Nyblade, and S. Anandakrishnan. Crustal structure of the Transantarctic Mountains near the Ross Sea from ambient seismic noise tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research, Solid Earth, v. 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JB007081 (2010).
Holland, C.W. and S. Anandakrishnan, Subglacial seismic reflection strategies when source amplitude and medium attenuation are poorly known. J Glaciol vol. 55 (193) pp. 931-937, (2009).
Winberry, J.P., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley, R.A. Bindschadler and M.A. King, Basal mechanics of ice streams: Insights from the stick-slip motion of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research 114, F01016, DOI:10.1029/2008JF001035 (2009).
Barklage, M., D.A. Wiens, A. Nyblade and S. Anandakrishnan, Upper mantle seismic anisotrophy of South Victoria Land and the Ross Sea coast, Antarctica from SKS and SKKS splitting analysis, Geophysical Journal International, v 178 Issue 2, pages 729 – 741, 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04158.x, (2009) (chosen for GJI Best Student Paper award – one of three for 2009).
Winberry, P., S. Anandakrishnan, R.B. Alley. Seismic Observations of Transient Subglacial Water-Flow beneath MacAyeal Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters 36, L11502, doi:10.1029/2009GL037730, (2009).