Margaret Knuth

National Science Foundation

Operations Manager US Antarctic Program

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About

Margaret Knuth is a civil engineer at the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Her primary research interests are in Arctic and Antarctic logistics and engineering. Recent projects have included work on potable water production in polar environments, firn air cooling systems for food and scientific sample storage, snow roads and runway construction and maintenance and methods for consolidating airfields at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Ms. Knuth is also involved in discrete element modeling for sea ice and granular materials. Recent work in this area has included modeling of ice crushing on Arctic structures and simulations of mobility and excavation tools for Martian and Lunar rovers..

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Technical Committees

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Committee on Hydraulic Structures
Committee on Experimental Methods and Instrumentation
Committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Committee on Ice Research and Engineering	Vice Chair	2013-01-01	2018-06-10

My Papers and Presentations

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A Computational Model for the Evolution of Composite Pancake Ice	2006
Summer Ice Concentration Comparison of in Situ and Satellite Data in the Ross Sea, Antarctica	2004

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IAHR Awards

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