AU Centre for Glaciology

30/07/2023

04/10/2022

Luminescence ages generated at Aberystwyth University form part of 690 new ages to constrain the timing of growth & retreat of last British-Irish ice sheet. Retreat of this ice-sheet is now world’s best constrained Aberystwyth University British Antarctic Survey

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bor.12594

15/09/2022

Check out the latest issue released from the Journal of Glaciology 68(271). 16 new papers included listed below.
See [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/latest-issue](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/latest-issue)

19/11/2021

Some exciting seminars coming up next Weds from the AU Centre for Glaciology! Samuel Doyle is presenting on fast ice flow for the AU Geography & Earth Sciences Seminar Series, and Bryn Hubbard & Katie Miles are talking about the project results for the International Glaciological Society Global Seminar Series w/ Ann Rowan (UoSheffield) & Duncan Quincey (UoLeeds).

AU staff & students - contact us for information about attending the AU Geography & Earth Sciences Seminar Series.

All welcome to tune into the Seminar (9 pm GMT on Zoom) - head to the Friends of the International Glaciological Society page for info on how to join, or catch the seminar afterwards on their Youtube page!

03/06/2021

New fully open-access paper from Bryn Hubbard and colleagues:
Crevasses hundreds of metres deep imaged using optical televiewers at Store Glacier, Greenland

Paper available at: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000291

08/12/2020

❄️Could the Alps be glacier-free by the end of the century?

📢 Neil Glasser : "If we carry on producing greenhouse gasses at the rate that we currently do, about 92% of the in the European would disappear by 2100."

🔊Listen here: https://bbc.in/2JVSSFx

08/12/2020

❄️A allai rhewlifoedd yr Alpau ddiflannu erbyn diwedd y ganrif?

📢 Neil Glasser: “Os ydym yn parhau i gynhyrchu nwyon tŷ gwydr ar y raddfa yr ydym yn ei wneud ar hyn o bryd, byddai tua 92% o'r yn yr Ewropeaidd yn diflannu erbyn 2100”.

🔊 https://bbc.in/2JVSSFx

06/07/2020

CfG's Marie Busfield and Katie Miles are taking part in the virtual Girls into Geoscience today, inspiring the new generation of glaciologists and geoscientists!

Girls into Geoscience goes virtual 06 July 2020 Female scientists from across the UK and Ireland will convene virtually for the largest Girls into Geoscience event which takes place today, Monday 6 July 2020. Dr Marie Busfield from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth Univer...

13/01/2020

Aberystwyth glaciologist awarded prestigious Fellowship Professor Bryn Hubbard has been awarded the prestigious William Evans Fellowship by the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand 13 January 2020 A Polar Medal holder at Aberystwyth University has been awarded the prestigious William Evans Fe...

25/07/2019

New PhD studentship opportunity - "The role of glacier structures in the degradation of Himalayan debris-covered glaciers for glacial hazard assessment". Funded by KESS2, and working with Tom Holt, Neil Glasser and project partner Reynolds International - get in touch to find out more or apply below!
Apply: http://kess2.ac.uk/aue10003/
Deadline: 05/08/19

12/03/2019

A couple of new papers are out from CfG Emeritus Professor Mike Hamberry, which provide a new approach to numerical modelling of structures in glaciers, including crevasse and foliation. These papers include data from fieldwork on Trapridge Glacier, Yukon, followed by innovative modelling by Garry Clarke. Trapridge Glacier is unusual in that it experienced a 'slow surge' that ended in 2005.

Hambrey, M.J. & Clarke, G.K.C., 2019. Structural Evolution During Cyclic Glacier Surges: 1. Structural Glaciology of Trapridge Glacier, Yukon, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004869

Clarke, G. K. C., & Hambrey, M. J. 2019. Structural evolution during cyclic glacier surges: 2. Numerical modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004870

26/11/2018

AU CfG PhD student Katie Miles wrote a piece for The Conversation, explaining what went on behind the recent fieldwork, what they measured, and why it matters. Find out more...
https://theconversation.com/warm-ice-in-mount-everests-glaciers-makes-them-more-sensitive-to-climate-change-new-research-107325

Mean annual air temperature on Everest is –13°C at 7,000 metres elevation, and yet the ice in its highest glacier is only –3.3°C.

15/11/2018

Tristram Irvine-Fynn is quantifying High-Arctic glacier surface change during the autumn Drone image from 70 m above a field camp of orange tents which highlights the complexity of impurity distribution, topography and structure on glacier ice surfaces.Today, the Arctic is getting warmer and wetter....

14/11/2018

New open-access paper in Scientific Reports from the EverDrill NERC-funded research project, led by AU-CfG PhD student Katie Miles: Polythermal structure of a Himalayan debris-covered glacier (Khumbu Glacier, Nepal)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34327-5

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12/03/2018

19/09/2017

The newest blog post by Bryn Hubbard about the difficulties and successes of high altitude fieldwork on the Khumbu Glacier https://eos.org/editors-vox/hot-water-cold-ice

Despite careful planning, there can be many uncertainties and unknowns about doing field research in remote locations.

24/08/2017

Exciting new map of South Georgia including detail of the Shackleton Crossing produced by AU Centre for Glaciology graduate, Laura Gerrish!

28/07/2017

How water travels through and beneath the interior of debris-covered glaciers is poorly understood, partly because it can be difficult to access these glaciers at all, never mind explore their interiors. In this Image of the Week, find out how these aspects can be investigated by drilling holes all…