Geological Oceanography
Daniel Lowry
Dan Lowry
Assistant Professor
Geological Oceanography
Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington, 2019
Office Phone: 727.553.1013
Email: daniellowry@usf.edu
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Research: Antarctic ice sheet 鈥� ocean 鈥� bedrock interactions; Future ice sheet responses to emissions scenarios; Past ice sheet behaviour and abrupt change; Earth system response to ice sheet melt; Model uncertainty quantification
Specialties: Sea level rise; Climate change; Polar environments; Ice sheet instabilities; Climate tipping points
Dr. Lowry is an Assistant Professor in Geological Oceanography at USF College of Marine Science, with expertise in ice sheet and paleoclimate modeling. He studies how ice sheets interact with the ocean, atmosphere, and the soft and solid Earth, and how these processes affect the global sea level and climate system. His work combines physics-based models and machine learning with insights from geophysical observations and paleoclimate archives.
Before joining USF in 2025, Dr. Lowry was a Senior Scientist at GNS Science, where he co-led the Antarctic Ice Dynamics program, a NZ government-funded research programme to investigate how Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics will change in a Paris Target world of ~2掳C above preindustrial. This program accomplished a number of scientific achievements, including obtaining new observations of ice-ocean interactions and change at the Kamb Ice Stream grounding zone, and the development of fully coupled regional ice sheet-sea level, ice sheet-ocean, and atmosphere-ocean models. The team鈥檚 work directly contributed to a national guidance for sea level rise in New Zealand. Dr. Lowry was a Contributing Author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report for the Chapter on Ocean, Cryosphere, and Sea Level Change. In 2019, Dan completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington鈥檚 Antarctic Research Centre. His doctoral research integrated ice core, marine sediment, and cosmogenic geochronology data to model deglaciation in the Ross Embayment, Antarctica.