Matt Pritchard is a geophysicist who measures changes in the shape of the Earth and develops models of the myriad processes that cause these changes including: earthquakes, volcanoes, groundwater, landslides, and glaciers. Prior to arriving at Cornell in 2005, Pritchard was a Harry Hess Postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, and an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago.
Geophysics, glaciology, geodesy, tectonics, and volcanology; Optical and radar satellite remote sensing, subsurface energy systems.
Global geophysics, active tectonics, planetary surfaces and geophysics, remote sensing, glaciers, lunar geology, and subsurface energy systems.
Durkin W. J. IV, S. Kachuck, and M. E. Pritchard (2019) The importance of the inelastic and elastic structure of the crust in constraining glacial density, mass change, and isostatic adjustment from geodetic observations in southeast Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124, 1106-1119, doi: 10.1029/2018jb016399.
Pritchard, M. E., T. A. Mather, S. R. McNutt, F. J. Delgado, and K. Reath (2019) Thoughts on the criteria to determine the origin of volcanic unrest as magmatic or non-magmatic, Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, A377:2018008, doi: 10.1098/rsta.2018.0008.
Reath, K., M. Pritchard, M. Poland, F. Delgado, S. Carn, D. Coppola, B Andrews, S. K. Ebmeier, E. Rumpf, S. Henderson, S. Baker, P. Lundgren, R. Wright, J. Biggs, T. Lopez, C. Wauthier, S. Moruzzi, A. Alcott, R. Wessels, J. Griswold, S. Ogburn, S. Loughlin, F. Meyer, G. Vaughan, and M. Bagnardi (2019) Thermal, deformation, and degassing remote sensing time series (A.D. 2000-2017) at the 47 most active volcanoes in Latin America: Implications for Volcanic Systems, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016199
Willis, M. J., W. Zheng, W. J. Durkin IV, M. E. Pritchard, J. M. Ramage, J. A. Dowdeswell, T. J. Benham, R. P. Bassford, L. A. Stearns, A. F. Glazovsky, Y. Y. Macheret, C. C. Porter (2018) Massive destabilization of an Arctic ice cap, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 502, p. 146-155.
Pritchard, M. E., and S.-H. Yun (2018) Satellite radar imaging and its application to natural hazards, Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Landslides, edited by R. S. Singh and D. Bartlett, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 95-114.
To better predict explosive, fiery volcanic activity, Kevin Reath, postdoctoral researcher and Matthew Prichard, Professor in EAS, have proposed a new classification system to discern the stages of a... Read more about For grounded forecast of volcanic unrest, spy from above
Cornell geologists, examining the desolate Vavilov ice cap on the northern fringe of Siberia in the Arctic Circle, have for the first time observed the rapid ice loss from an improbable new river of... Read more about Prof. Matt Pritchard and docoral student Whyjay Zheng detect rapid ‘ice stream’ at Arctic glacier.
When Art Bloom died a year ago, five of the late geology professor’s colleagues collaborated with his family, local artists and others to finish his book that explains Ithaca and the Finger Lakes... Read more about Colleagues collaborate to finish late geologist’s book
