Benjamin Hamlington

757-683-3349
Satellite Remote Sensing Group

3225 4111 MONARCH WAY
NORFOLK, 23508

Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, (2011)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Hamlington, B. D. "The Role of Decadal Climate Variability in Global and Regional Sea Level" $458,011. Federal. February 18, 2017 - February 17, 2021
Hamlington, B. D. "Understanding Sea Level Over the Last Century: What Do We Really Know?" $231,985. Federal. March 15, 2016 - March 14, 2019
Hamlington, B. D. "Collaborative Research: Investigating the Effect of Internal Climate Variability on Sea Level in the Indian Ocean" $292,454. Federal. January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2018
Hamlington, B. "Identifying, Quantifying, and Projecting Decadal Sea Level Change" $234,276. Federal. August 22, 2017 - August 21, 2018
Hamlington, B. D. "Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Initiative: NASA Spaceborne SAR Subsidence Survey" $100,000. State. July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2018
Hamlington, B. "Hampton Roads INSAR Subsidence Survey" $10,000. Federal. June 1, 2017 - May 31, 2018
Hamlington, B. "Sea Level Reconstruction Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models" $60,713. Federal. April 4, 2016 - March 5, 2018
Hamlington, B. "Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Sea Level Reconstruction" $688,111. Federal. March 6, 2015 - March 5, 2018
Hamlington, B. "Role of Decadal Climate Variability in Global and Regional Sea Level Change" $41,566. Federal. March 1, 2017 - February 28, 2018
Hamlington, B. D. "Observation-Driven Projections of Future Regional Sea Level Change" $86,584. Federal. August 3, 2015 - June 4, 2017
Hamlington, B. "Observation-Driven Projections of Future Regional Sea Level Change" $42,292. Higher Education. August 3, 2015 - June 4, 2017

Articles

Cheon, S. H., Hamlington, B. and Suh, K. D. (2018). Reconstruction of sea level around the Korean Peninsula using cyclostationary empirical orthogonal functions. Ocean Science 14 (5) , pp. 959-970.
Carson, M., Köhl, A., Stammer, D., Meyssignac, B., Church, J., Schröter, J., Wenzel, M. and Hamlington, B. (2017). Regional Sea Level Variability and Trends, 1960–2007: A Comparison of Sea Level Reconstructions and Ocean Syntheses. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 122 (11) , pp. 9068-9091.
Nidheesh, A. G.., Lengaigne, M., Vialard, J., Izumo, T., Unnikrishnan, A. S.., Meyssignac, B., Hamlington, B. and de Boyer Montegut, C. (2017). Robustness of observation-based decadal sea level variability in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 44 (14) , pp. 7391--7400.
Bekaert, D. P.S., Hamlington, B., Buzzanga, B. and Jones, C. E. (2017). Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar survey of subsidence in Hampton Roads, Virginia (USA). Scientific Reports 7 (1) , pp. 14752.
Hamlington, B., Reagar, J. T., Lo, M. H., Karnauskas, K. B. and Leben, R. R. (2017). Separating decadal global water cycle variability from sea level rise. Scientific Reports 7 , pp. 1-7.
Hamlington, B., Cheon, S., Thompson, P., Merrifield, M., Nerem, R., Leben, R. and Kim, K. (2016). An ongoing shift in Pacific Ocean sea level. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121 (7) , pp. 5084–5097.
Thompson, P., Hamlington, B., Landerer, F. and Adhikari, S. (2016). Are long tide gauge records in the wrong place to measure global mean sea level rise?. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (19).
Hamlington, B., Thompson, P., Hammond, W., Blewitt, G. and Ray, R. (2016). Assessing the impact of vertical land motion on twentieth century global mean sea level estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121 (7) , pp. 4980–4993.
Cheng, Y., Hamlington, B., Plag, H. and Xu, Q. (2016). Influence of ENSO on the variation of annual sea level cycle in the South China Sea. Ocean Engineering 126 , pp. 343–352.
Fasullo, J., Nerem, R. and Hamlington, B. (2016). Is the detection of accelerated sea level rise imminent?. Scientific Reports 6.
Cheng, Y., Ezer, T. and Hamlington, B. (2016). Sea Level Acceleration in the China Seas. Water 8 (7) , pp. 293.
Merrifield, M., Leuliette, E., Thompson, P., Chambers, D., Hamlington, B., Jevrejeva, S., Marra, J., Menéndez, M., Mitchum, G. and Nerem, R. (2016). Sea level variability and change [in “State of the Climate in 2015”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (8 (Supplement)) , pp. S80–S82.
Han, W., Meehl, G. A., Stammer, D., Hu, A., Hamlington, B., Kenigson, J., Palanisamy, H. and Thompson, P. (2016). Spatial Patterns of Sea Level Variability Associated with Natural Internal Climate Modes. Surveys in Geophysics , pp. 1–34.
Aaron-Morrison, A., Ackerman, S., Adams, N., Adler, R., Albanil, A., Alfaro, E., Allan, R., Alves, L., Amador, J., Andreassen, L. and Hamlington, B. (2016). State of the Climate in 2015. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 97 (8) , pp. S1–S275.
Hamlington, B. D., Thompson, P. R., Hammond, W., Blewitt, G. and Ray, R. (2016). Assessing the impact of vertical land motion on estimates of 20th century global mean sea level. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 121 , pp. 4980-4993.
Strassburg, M., Hamlington, B., Manrung, R., Lumban-Gaol, J., Nababan, B. and Kim, K. (2015). Sea level trends in Southeast Asian seas. Climate of the Past 11 (5).
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Kim, K., Nerem, R., Atkinson, L. P. and Thompson, P. (2015). The effect of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation on US regional and coastal sea level. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120 (6) , pp. 3970–3986.
Cheng, Y., Plag, H., Hamlington, B. D., Xu, Q. and He, Y. (2015). Regional sea level variability in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, and East China Sea. Continental Shelf Research 111 , pp. 95–107.
Kim, K., Hamlington, B. D. and Na, H. (2015). Theoretical foundation of cyclostationary EOF analysis for geophysical and climatic variables: Concepts and examples. Earth-Science Reviews 150 , pp. 201-218.
Merrifield, M., Thompson, P., Leuliette, E., Mitchum, G., Chambers, D., Nere, S., Sweet, W. and Hamlington, B. D. (2015). [Global oceans] Sea level variability and change [in “State of the Climate in 2014”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 96 (7).
Hamlington, B. D., Leben, R. R., Kim, K., Nerem, R. S., Atkinson, L. and Thompson, P. (2015). The Effect of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on United States Regional and Coastal Sea Level. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 120 (6) , pp. 3970–3986.
Hamlington, B. D. and Thompson, P. R. (2015). Considerations for Estimating the 20th Century Trend in Global Mean Sea Level. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (10) , pp. 4102–4109.
Hamlington, B. D., Milliff, R. F., van Loon, H. and Kim, K. (2015). A Southern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure-based Precursor for ENSO Warm and Cold Events. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere 120 (6) , pp. 2280-2292.
Hamlington, B. D., Hamlington, P. E., Collins, S. G., Alexander, S. R. and Kim, K. (2015). Effects of Climate Oscillations on Wind Resource Variability in the United States. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (1) , pp. 145-152.
Han, W., Meehl, G. A., Hu, A., Alexander, M. A., Yamagata, T., Yuan, D., Ishii, M., Pegion, P., Zheng, J., Hamlington, B. and others (2014). Intensification of decadal and multi-decadal sea level variability in the western tropical Pacific during recent decades. Climate dynamics 43 (5-6) , pp. 1357–1379.
Strassburg, M. W., Hamlington, B. D., Leben, R. R.., Manurung, P., Nababan, B., Vignudelli, S., Lumban Gaol, J. and Kim, K. (2014). Sea level trends in South East Asian Seas (SEAS). Climate of the Past Discussions 10 , pp. 4129-4148.
Strassburg, M. W., Hamlington, B. D., Leben, R. R. . and Kim, K. (2014). A comparative study of sea level reconstruction techniques using 20 years of satellite altimetry data. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 119 , pp. 4068–4082.
Merrifield, M. A., Thompson, P., Leuliette, E., Nerem, R. S., Hamlington, B. D., Chambers, D. P.., Mitchum, G. T.., McInnes, K., Marra, J. J. ., Menendez, M. and Sweet, W. (2014). [Global oceans] Sea level variability and change [in “State of the Climate in 2013”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 95 (7) , pp. S71-S73.
Hamlington, B. D., Strassburg, M. W., Leben, R. R. ., Nerem, R. S., Han, W. and Kim, K. (2014). Uncovering an anthropogenic sea-level rise signal in the Pacific Ocean . Nature Climate Change 4 , pp. 782-785.
Hamlington, B. D., Leben, R. R., Strassburg, M. W. and Kim, K. (2014). Cyclostationary Empirical Orthogonal Function Sea Level Reconstruction. Geoscience Data Journal 1 (1) , pp. 13-19.
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Strassburg, M., Nerem, R. and Kim, K. (2013). Contribution of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation to global mean sea level trends. Geophysical Research Letters 40 (19) , pp. 5171–5175.
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Godin, O., Gica, E., Titov, V., Haines, B. and Desai, S. (2012). Could satellite altimetry have improved early detection and warning of the 2011 Tohoku tsunami?. Geophysical Research Letters 39 (15).
Hamlington, B., Leben, R. and Kim, K. (2012). Improving sea level reconstructions using non-sea level measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117 (C10).
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Wright, L. and Kim, K. (2012). Regional sea level reconstruction in the Pacific ocean. Marine Geodesy 35 (sup1) , pp. 98–117.
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Nerem, R., Han, W. and Kim, K. (2011). Reconstructing sea level using cyclostationary empirical orthogonal functions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 116 (C12).
Hamlington, B. (2011). Sea level hazards: Altimetric monitoring of tsunamis and sea level rise.
Leben, R., Hamlington, B. and Haines, B. (2011). Seasat and Geosat Revisited: Using Sea Level Measurements to Improve Satellite Altimeter Orbits. The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences 58 (3) , pp. 479–493.
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Nerem, R. and Kim, K. (2011). The effect of signal-to-noise ratio on the study of sea level trends. Journal of Climate 24 (5) , pp. 1396–1408.
Godin, O., Irisov, V., Leben, R., Hamlington, B. and Wick, G. (2009). Variations in sea surface roughness induced by the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman tsunami. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science 9 (4).
Chen, X., Hamlington, B. and Shen, A. Q. (2008). Isotropic-to-nematic phase transition in a liquid-crystal droplet. Langmuir 24 (2) , pp. 541–546.
Hamlington, B., Steinhaus, B., Feng, J. J., Link, D., Shelley, M. J. and Shen, A. Q. (2007). Liquid crystal droplet production in a microfluidic device. Liquid Crystals 34 (7) , pp. 861–870.
Shen, A. Q., Hamlington, B., Knoblauch, M., Peters, W. S. and Pickard, W. F. (2006). Forisome based biomimetic smart materials. Smart Structures and Systems 2 (3) , pp. 225–235.

Book Chapters

Hamlington, B., Godin, O. A., Irisov, V. G. and Leben, R. R. (2011). Detection of Tsunamis from Changes in Ocean Surface Roughness The Tsunami Threat-Research and Technology InTech.

Conference Proceeding

Kim, J. J., Kim, K., Hamlington, B. and Na, H. (2015). Seasonal Mechanism of sea ice melting in the Arctic Seas AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
Kim, K., Kim, J. J., Yeo, S., Na, H., Hamlington, B. and Leben, R. (2015). Understanding the Mechanism of Arctic Amplification and Sea Ice Loss AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
Hamlington, B., Leben, R., Godin, O., Gica, E., Titov, V. and Haines, B. (2012). Near Real-Time Tsunami Detection Using Satellite Altimetry EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (pp. 11480).
Han, W., Meehl, G., Hu, A., Yamagata, T., Alexander, M., Deser, C., Yuan, D., Ishii, M., Quan, X., Zheng, J. and Hamlington, B. (2012). Pacific Decadal Sea Level Change Patterns associated with a Warming Indo-Pacific Warm Pool AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (pp. 0917).
Hamlington, B., Leben, R. R., Nerem, R. Steven. and Kim, K. (2010). New method for reconstructing sea level from tide gauges using satellite altimetry Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International (pp. 781–784).
Hamlington, B., Leben, R. R., Godin, O. A. and Irisov, V. G. (2010). On the feasibility of tsunami detection using satellite-based sea surface roughness measurements Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International (pp. 3035–3038).
Phillips, T., Hamlington, B., Nerem, R. and Leben, R. (2010). The influence of uncertainty in past sea level reconstructions on 21st century mean sea level projections AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts.
Godin, O., Irisov, V., Leben, R., Hamlington, B. and Wick, G. (2008). Variations in the Microwave Backscatter From the Ocean Surface Induced by the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (pp. 1320).
Shen, A., Hamlington, B., Knoblauch, M., Peters, W. and Pickard, W. (2005). Forisome as biomimetic smart materials Smart Structures and Materials (pp. 97–107).

Presentations

Hamlington, B. D. (February 1, 2017). Understanding Sea Level Using Satellite Remote Sensing Oral Presentation Hampton, VA.
Hamlington, B. D. (December , 2016). Mapping the Causes and Impacts of Decadal Sea Level Variability Oral Presentation Fall AGU 2016 San Francisco, CA.
Hamlington, B. D. (February , 2016). Understanding and Communicating the Timescales of Sea Level Change Oral Presentation AAAS 2016 Washington DC.
Hamlington, B. D. (November 16, 2015). What do we really know about 20th century GMSL? Oral Presentation Science Pubs Norfolk, VA.
Hamlington, B. D. (November 11, 2015). Vertical Land Motion and Sea Level Rise Oral Presentation NASA Sea Level Change Team Meeting Lake Arrowhead, CA.
Hamlington, B. D. (October 19, 2015). Multivariate Sea Level Reconstruction 1900-2014 Oral Presentation NASA Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting Reston, VA.
Hamlington, B. D. (October 19, 2015). What do we really know about 20th century GMSL? Keynote/Plenary Address NASA Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting Reston, VA.
Hamlington, B. D. (June 20, 2015). Sea Level Science and Projections Lecture ACCO Climate Science Washington DC.
Hamlington, B. D. (April 2, 2015). Towards Regional Sea Level Projections:Assessing the Contribution of Natural Climate Variability to Regional Sea Level Rise Oral Presentation OEAS Seminar Norfolk, VA.
(March 12, 2015). Towards Regional Sea Level Projections:Assessing the Contribution of Natural Climate Variability to Regional Sea Level Rise Lecture Seminar at University of South Florida St. Petersburg, FL.
Hamlington, B. D. (February 27, 2015). Towards Regional Sea Level Projections:Assessing the Contribution of Natural Climate Variability to Regional Sea Level Rise Oral Presentation University of South Carolina Seminar Columbia, SC.
Hamlington, B. D. (December 16, 2014). Uncovering an Anthropogenic Sea Level Rise Signal in the Pacific Ocean Oral Presentation American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting San Francisco, USA.
Hamlington, B. D. (October 29, 2014). Uncovering an Anthropogenic Sea Level Rise Signal in the Pacific Ocean Oral Presentation New Frontiers of Altimetry Konstanz, Germany.
Hamlington, B. D. (October 28, 2014). Near Real-time and Historical Monitoring of the Earth’s Climate System Using Satellite Altimetry and Reconstructed Sea Level Oral Presentation New Frontiers of Altimetry Konstanz, Germany.
Hamlington, B. D. (October 27, 2014). Sea Level and Climate Change Outreach for High School Students Oral Presentation New Frontiers of Altimetry Konstanz, Germany.
Hamlington, B. D. (June 16, 2014). CSEOF-based Sea Level Height Reconstruction Oral Presentation International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2014 Seoul, South Korea.
Hamlington, B. D. (February 24, 2014). Climate Variability Contributions to Global and Regional Sea Level, Ocean Sciences Meeting Oral Presentation Ocean Sciences Meeting Honolulu, USA.
Hamlington, B. D. (February 11, 2014). Cyclostationary Empirical Orthogonal Function Analysis: Theory and Applications Oral Presentation Boulder Fluids Seminar Boulder, USA.
  • 2016: Early Career Distinguished Research Award, Old Dominion University College of Sciences
  • 2016: New Investigator Award, NASA