Staff Profile

Andrew Cross

Preferred Name: Andrew Cross

Associate Scientist Without Tenure

Geology & Geophysics

Email: across@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 3749

Lab/Group Site: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/ridl/

Education

Ph.D., 2015, University of Otago, New Zealand; M.E.Sci., 2011, University of Liverpool, UK

 

Select publications

• Cross, A. J., Goddard, R. M., Kumamoto, K. M., Goldsby, D. L., Hansen, L. N., Chen, H., Hein, D., Thom, C. A., Nehring, M. A., Breithaupt, T. & Wallis, D. (2025). Direct observations of transient weakening during phase transformations in quartz and olivine. Nature Geoscience.
• Seltzer, C., Llorens, M.-G. & Cross, A. J. (2024). Meltwater orientations modify seismic anisotropy in temperate ice. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110131.
• Cross, A. J., Goldsby, D. L., Hager, T. F. & Smith, I. B. (2020). The rheological behavior of CO₂ ice: application to glacial flow on Mars, Geophysical Research Letters, 47(22), e2020GL090431
• Cross, A. J. & Skemer, P. (2019), Rates of dynamic recrystallization in geologic materials. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(2), 1324-1342
• Cross, A. J., Prior D. J., Stipp, M. & Kidder, S. (2017), The recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz: an EBSD-based calibration. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(13), 6667-6674
• Cross, A. J. & Skemer P. (2017), Ultramylonite generation via phase mixing in high-strain experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(3), 1744-1759