Principal Research Interests: Glaciers/Ice Sheets and Climate Change Polar research Ice radar and radio-echo sounding Cryosphere geophysics Ice sheet/ocean interaction Ice dynamics and hydrology Relating glaciology to geo(morpho)logy

My current research concerns the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to climate change, and is exemplified by the active projects listed below. From time to time potential Ph.D. and postdoctoral projects will be advertised here. I also welcome, any time, enquiries from prospective students and postdocs with relevant research interests. >> Contact me

September 2009: Currently there are no listed topics available.

For informal enquiries regarding prospective Ph.D. / postdoctoral opportunites, do feel welcome to contact me.

Current supervisees:

Nanna Karlsson (Ph.D. candidate, University of Hull, 2007+)
Project title: "The Internal Stratigraphy of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica"
Supervisors: Dr. D. Rippin (Hull); Dr. R. Bingham (Aberdeen); Prof. T. Coulthard (Hull); Dr. G Ferrier (Hull)

Philip Prescott (Ph.D. candidate, University of Durham, 2008+)
Project title: "Roughness beneath ice sheets"
Supervisors: Dr. C. Stokes (Durham); Dr. N. Cox (Durham); Dr. R. Bingham (Aberdeen)

Earlier research:

From 2006-2009, I worked as a Radar Geophysicist for the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. My research involved the acquisition and analysis of airborne and oversnow radar data in West Antarctica, and the data gathered underpin much of my current and future research. >> Pine Island Glacier >> Airborne radar research >> Eltanin Bay, West Antarctica

From 2005-2006 I was based in the Bristol Glaciology Centre, where I utilised 3-D visualisation and glaciological modelling techniques to analyse the internal structure and stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. >> Visualisation and modelling of the 3-D structure of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

From 2003-2004, I was based at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), where I carried out a variety of luminescence dating applications... >> Luminescence Dating of Periglacial Stone Runs in the Falkland Islands >> Investigation of the Luminescence Bleaching Properties of Subglacial Sediments >> Luminescence Dating of Sediments and Ceramics in Southern Cambodia

In Spring 2004, I was part of the CryoSat CalVal team on Devon Ice Cap, Arctic Canada, working on methods for calibrating satellite measurements of Arctic ice cap mass balance. >> Calibration and Validation of the CryoSat Radar Altimeter: Devon Ice Cap, Arctic Canada

My Ph.D. research, based at the University of Glasgow and the University of Alberta (1999-2003), examined High Arctic glacier hydrology and ice motion, and has implications for the potential response of Arctic land ice to climatic warming. >> Hydrology and Dynamics of a High Arctic Glacier

My M.Res. research, based at the University of Edinburgh (1998-99), utilised glaciological modelling techniques to examine Holocene glacier fluctuations over southern Iceland. >> Modelling Ice Sheet Dynamics in Response to Climate Changes in Southern Iceland

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