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Christopher T Harig

  • Assistant Professor, Geosciences
  • Assistant Professor, Global Change - GIDP
  • Assistant Professor, Remote Sensing / Spatial Analysis - GIDP
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
  • (520) 621-6000
  • Gould-Simpson, Rm. 208
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • charig@arizona.edu
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  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Geophysics
    • University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2025)
  • Physics Of The Earth
    GEOS 519 (Spring 2025)
  • Physics Of The Earth
    PTYS 519 (Spring 2025)
  • Physics of the Earth
    GEOS 419 (Spring 2025)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2025)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2024)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Spring 2023)
  • Inverse Problems Geophys
    GEOS 567 (Spring 2023)
  • Inverse Problems Geophys
    PTYS 567 (Spring 2023)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2023)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2022)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Spring 2022)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2022)
  • Physics Of The Earth
    GEOS 519 (Spring 2022)
  • Physics of the Earth
    GEOS 419 (Spring 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2022)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2021)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2021)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Geodynamics
    GEOS 540 (Spring 2021)
  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Spring 2021)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2021)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2020)
  • Senior Capstone
    GEOS 498 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Summer I 2020)
  • Physics Of The Earth
    GEOS 519 (Spring 2020)
  • Physics of the Earth
    GEOS 419 (Spring 2020)
  • Senior Capstone
    GEOS 498 (Spring 2020)
  • Thesis
    GEOS 910 (Spring 2020)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2019)
  • Geosciences
    GEOS 596H (Fall 2019)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2019)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2019)
  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 499 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2019)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2019)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Spring 2019)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Physics Of The Earth
    GEOS 519 (Spring 2018)
  • Physics of the Earth
    GEOS 419 (Spring 2018)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Spring 2018)
  • Programming and Data Analysis
    GEOS 280 (Fall 2017)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Geodynamics
    GEOS 440 (Spring 2017)
  • Geodynamics
    GEOS 540 (Spring 2017)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • Beveridge, A. K., Harig, C. T., & Simons, F. J. (2018). The changing mass of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, 2003-2016, using time-variable gravity from the GRACE satellite mission. Journal of Geodetic Science.
  • Chen, X., Zhang, X., Church, J. A., King, M. A., Watson, C. S., Monselesan, D., Legresy, B., & Harig, C. (2016). The increasing rate of global mean sea--level rise during 1993--2014. Nature Climate Change.
  • Mitrovica, J. X., Hay, C. C., Kopp, R. E., Harig, C. T., & Latychev, K. (2017). Quantifying the sensitivity of sea level change in coastal localities to the geometry of polar ice mass flux. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0465.1
  • Harig, C., & Simons, F. J. (2016). Ice mass loss in Greenland, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Canadian Archipelago: Seasonal cycles and decadal trends. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(7). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL067759
  • Modret, A., Mikesell, D., Harig, C., Lipovsky, B. P., & Prieto, G. A. (2016). Monitoring South-West Greenland's ice sheet melt with ambient seismic noise.. Science Advances, 2(5). doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501538

Presentations

  • Harig, C. (2016, January). Measuring ice mass loss from melting ice sheets and Arctic glaciers. University of Houston colloquium.
  • Harig, C., Simons, F. J., & Bevis, M. (2016, January). Ice mass changes in and around Greenland and the 2013 pause in deglaciation. Program for Arctic Regional Climate Assessment (PARCA). NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).
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    Conference oral presentation.

Poster Presentations

  • Harig, C. T. (2017, December). Long term ice sheet mass change rates and inter-annual variability from GRACE gravimetry. Fall AGU Meeting 2017.
  • Harig, C. T. (2017, September). Long term ice sheet mass change rates and inter-annual variability from GRACE gravimetry. IAG GIA Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
  • Harig, C., Li, S., Sim, S., Watkins, C. E., & Freymueller, J. T. (2016, December). Reconciling Estimates of Mantle Viscosity Across Scales: Case Study of the Basin and Range. 2016 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA: Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER).

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