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Outcrop work in coastal Washington: Fall 2020
Preserved organic material in sediment core from coastal Virginia: Summer 2022
R/V Adolf Jensen in southern Greenland: Summer 2024
First vibracore lake sediments collected by the Ice and Ocean Group: Fall 2020
Sediment cores collected from southern Greenland fjords: Summer 2024
Describing outcrop units in coastal Washington: Fall 2020
The “glitter splitter” ready to split a lake core from Whidbey Island: Summer 2021
Collecting active layer soils on the Northern Slope of Alaska: Summer 2018
Ice and Ocean group vibracore setup: Fall 2020
Sediment cores collected from Virginia coast seagrass meadows: Summer 2023
Cross-bedded sands from coastal Washington: Fall 2020
Porewater sample collection in southern Greenland: Summer 2024

To contact me, please email me at marion.mckenzie@mines.edu.

Recent Publications

Automatic identification of streamlined subglacial bedforms using machine learning: an open-source Python approach, preprint in EarthArXiv, in review in Boreas.

Sedimentary records of blue carbon and environmental change in coastal Virginia: Local variation in terrestrial input and erosion, in review in Sedimentology.

Spatial variability of marine-terminating ice sheet retreat in the Puget Lowland, published in Climate of the Past in 2024.

Differential impact of isolated topographic bumps on glacial ice flow and subglacial processes, published in The Cryosphere in 2023.

Streamlined subglacial bedform sensitivity to bed characteristics across the deglaciated Northern Hemisphere, published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms in 2022.

Blog Posts:

New Gear Sharing Program on CryoCommunity
Greenland Boat Times on the RaD Lab “Postcards from the field”

Data Products

McKenzie, M., Kuzminski, S., Guo, Z., Wiggins, T., Miller, L., Berg, P., Wiman, C., & Muñoz, S. (2024). Sedimentary records of blue carbon and environmental change in coastal Virginia [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11479484

McKenzie, MA, Miller, LE, Lepp, AP, DeWitt, R. (2024): XRF data from coastal outcrop samples of West Beach 2 from Whidbey Island, Washington state [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965545

McKenzie, Marion A; Simkins, Lauren M; Slawson, Jacob S; Wang, Shujie (2023): Streamlined subglacial bedforms across isolated topographic highs in the Puget Lowland, Washington state [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954529

Marion McKenzie. (2024). Topographic Position Index (TPI) enabled for ArcGIS (v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13685546 Includes TPI tool and instructions.

McKenzie, Marion A; Simkins, Lauren M; Principato, Sarah M (2022): Streamlined subglacial bedforms across the deglaciated Northern Hemisphere [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.939999

PyPI package “bedfinder”, developed by E. Abrahams and M. McKenzie