Biography

I have a BSc in Environmental and Resource Geology (2007) and a PhD in Earth Science (2012) from the University of Manchester. After my PhD, I was a Research Fellow at Aberystwyth University, then a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield where I held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship. My children were born in 2016 and 2019 and I had career breaks around those years. In 2022, I was the Fondation Herbette visiting professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) in Switzerland. In 2025, I was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. I am Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. My ORCID is 0000-0002-3715-5554

I am responsible for the courses:

GEOV225 Field Course in Quaternary Geology and Palaeoclimate

GEOV181 Introduction to Earth Science and Informatics

I contribute to the course:

GEOV230 Glacial Geology and Geomorphology

A complete list of publications is available from ORCID: 0000-0002-3715-5554

Current PhD candidate supervision: 

Charlotte Curry (Sheffield) is investigating the impacts of mining for metals on late Holocene glacier change in the semi-arid Andes. 

Daniel Thomas (UiB) is observing the evolution of rock glaciers over large spatial scales using Deep Learning techniques applied to remote datasets. 

Karlijn Ploeg (UiB) is researching how palaeoclimate signals are recorded in ice-marginal moraines in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. 

George Young (UiB) is exploring differences in glaciation between the westerly and monsoon-influenced Himalaya.

Léa Rodari (NTNU) focuses on glacier hazards evolution such as outburst floods and droughts in Norway and Switzerland.

Former PhD candidate supervision:

Alex Scoffield (University of Leeds, 2025) PhD thesis title: "Ice-contact lakes and their influence on Himalayan glacier evolution"

Will Wenban (University of Sheffield, 2024) PhD thesis title: "Spatio-temporal dynamics of glacial erosion in high Alpine catchments"

Josephine Hornsey (University of Sheffield, 2022) PhD thesis title: "Holocene moraine building in the monsoonal Himalaya"

Katie Miles (Aberystwyth University, 2021) PhD thesis title: "The internal structure and subsurface hydrology of a high-elevation debris-covered glacier"

Anya Schlich-Davies (University of Leeds, 2021) PhD thesis title: "The role of atmospheric forcing in the mass balance and evolution of a debris-covered Himalayan glacier"

Archana Dayal (University of Sheffield, 2021) PhD thesis title: "Seasonal Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry of Snow during Spring and Summer Melt in Svalbard"

Arminel Lovell (University of Newcastle, 2020) PhD thesis title: "Explaining recent heterogeneous glacier change in the Annapurna Conservation Area, central Himalayas"

Owen King (University of Leeds, 2018) PhD thesis title: "Characterising the evolution of Himalayan debris covered glaciers"

Morgan Gibson (Aberystwyth University, 2018) PhD thesis title: "The role of supraglacial debris in Himalaya–Karakoram debris-covered glacier systems"

Scott Watson (University of Leeds, 2017) PhD thesis title: "Ice cliff, supraglacial pond, and water storage dynamics in the Everest region of Nepal"