PhD theses written on ice- and snow-related research at the University of Edinburgh

Theses in order of completion (most recent first) [Click here for alphabetical listing]

Hoad, Calum G. (2025) Spectral trends as a measure of ecological change in the Arctic.

Hudson, Phoebe A. (2025) Freshwater variability in the Arctic Eurasian Shelf seas: Satellite sea surface salinity and inter-annual variability to predict Arctic system change.

Towers, Anya H. (2025) Post-glacial fluvial dynamics of the British Isles.

Lowe, Maximilian (2024) Crustal properties and heat flow in Victoria Land and Wilkes subglacial basin, Antarctica: Forward and inverse modelling of gravity and magnetic data coupled with petrological measurements.

Fisher, Ben A. (2024) Interactions of organic carbon and nitrogen cycles with phytoplankton in a changing Southern Ocean.

Malczyk, George R. (2024) Antarctic subglacial hydrology: Application of CryoSat-2 swath altimetry to the study of active subglacial lakes.

Ockenden, Helen E. (2024) Inverting for Antarctic subglacial topography using variability in satellite remote-sensing observations of the ice surface.

Bodart, Julien A. (2023) Reconstructing the history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet using internal reflecting horizons from radio-echo sounding.

Debyser, Margot C. F. (2023) Nutrient cycling in the Arctic and Subarctic oceans: A stable isotope study.

Megregian, Catherine M. (2023) Investigating the effect of oil-infusion on the icephobicity of elastomer coatings.

Bisset, Rosie R. (2022) Satellite and UAV remote sensing of debris-covered glaciers.

Doncila, Antonia (2022) Nitrogen cycling in the warming Arctic Ocean.

Leger, Tancrède P. M. (2022) Reconstructing the Late Quaternary glacial history of northeastern Patagonia (43°S, 71°W): New insights from geomorphology, geochronology and numerical glacier modelling.

Priestley, Alex (2022) Using geophysical data to understand liquid water dynamics in seasonal snow.

Twelves, Andrew G. (2022) Interactions between ice shelves and phytoplankton blooms in the Amundsen Sea, and their relevance to the Southern Ocean.

Bunce, Charlotte (Charlie) (2021) Investigating marine-terminating glacier behaviour in Greenland.

Delf, Richard J. (2021) Investigating the internal structure of glaciers and ice sheets using Ground Penetrating Radar.

Nikifordis, Vasileios-Martin (2021) Nanoscale dynamics of ice growth on surfaces.

Tepes, Paul D. (2021) Mass imbalance and climate sensitivity of Arctic glaciers and ice caps.

Williams, Joshua J. (2021) Controls on ice dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Dittrich, Ribanna (2020) Cycling of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Mendelová, Monika (2020) Reconstruction of the San Lorenzo Ice Cap during the last glacial cycle: Insights into the build-up and demise of the last Patagonian ice sheet.

Dumont, Matthew (2019) Nutrient cycling and the biological pump in the Southern Ocean across the last deglaciation.

Moyer, Alexis N. (2019) Investigating tidewater glacier and iceberg submarine melting in Greenland’s fjords.

Rada-Torres, Myriam A. (2019) Reconstruction of the geomagnetic field during the Late Quaternary in Scotland using lacustrine sedimentary records.

Christie, Frazer D. W. (2018) Constraining ice, ocean and atmosphere interactions along the Central Pacific-facing margin of West Antarctica.

Davies, Damon (2018) The nature and dynamics of ice-stream beds: Assessing their role in ice-sheet stability.

Foresta, Luca U. (2018) Applications of CryoSat-2 swath radar altimetry over Icelandic ice caps and Patagonian icefields.

Fraser, Neil J. (2018) Mechanisms for wintertime fjord-shelf heat exchange in Greenland and Svalbard.

How, Penelope R. (2018) Dynamical change at tidewater glaciers examined using time-lapse photogrammetry.

Cuthill, Fergus (2017) Influence of snow microstructure and properties on the grip of winter tyres.

Slater, Donald A. (2017) Modelling submarine melting at tidewater glaciers in Greenland.

Turton, Rachael H. (2017) Impact of the radiation balance on snowmelt in a sparse deciduous birch forest.

MacDonald, Matthew K. (2016) Hydrometeorological response to chinook winds in the South Saskatchewan River Basin.

Parkanyi, Tamas (2016) Rubber friction on ice: Investigation of frictional heating and melt-water-film thickness.

Spencer, Michael R. (2016) Reanalysis of Scottish mountain snow conditions.

Barraclough, Thomas W. (2015) Strain softening and strain localisation in irreversible deformation of snow.

Tedstone, Andrew J. (2015) Hydrological controls on Greenland Ice Sheet motion.

Tuerena, Robyn E. (2015) Nitrogen and carbon cycling in the South Atlantic Ocean: A stable isotope study along a 40°S transect (UK GEOTRACES).

Bell, David B. (2014) Onset of the icehouse world: Atlantic deep-water circulation during the Pliocene and Pleistocene.

Ella, Samantha (2014) Rubber-snow interface and friction.

Finlayson, Andrew G. (2014) Geomorphology and dynamics of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in western Scotland.

Annett, Amber L. (2013) Phytoplankton ecology and biogeochemistry of the warming Antarctic sea-ice zone.

Comeau, Laura E. L. (2013) Snow modelling for understanding human ecodynamics in periods of climate change.

Cowton, Thomas R. (2013) Hydrology of a land-terminating Greenlandic outlet glacier.

Henley, Sian F. (2013) Climate-induced changes in carbon and nitrogen cycling in the rapidly warming Antarctic coastal ocean.

Jude-Eton, Tanya C. (2013) Eruption dynamics within an emergent subglacial setting: A case study of the 2004 eruption of Grímsvötn volcano, Iceland.

Bartholomew, Ian D. (2012) Hydrology and dynamics of a land-terminating Greenland outlet glacier.

Briggs, Kate H. (2012) Satellite investigations of ice dynamics and supraglacial-lake development in Greenland.

McMillan, Malcolm J. (2012) Satellite investigations of ice-ocean interactions in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica.

Unterman, Matthew B. (2012) High-resolution simulations of synoptic scale “palaeometeorology” during the Last Glacial Maximum.

Karatay, Mehmet R. (2011) Modelling the hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Rinne, Eero J. (2011) Satellite-altimeter remote sensing of ice caps.

Skouvaklis, Gerasimos (2011) Rubber friction on ice and snow surfaces.

Straathof, Gijsbert B. (2011) Neoproterozoic low latitude glaciations: An African perspective.

Ménard, Cécile B. (2010) Modelling the effects of shrub-tundra on snow and runoff.

Palmer, Steven J. (2010) Temporal fluctuations in the motion of Arctic ice masses from satellite radar interferometry.

Carson, Damien S. (2009) Biogeochemical controls on productivity and particle flux in the coastal Antarctic sea-ice environment.

Golledge, Nicholas R. (2009) Glacial geology and glaciology of the Younger Dryas ice cap in Scotland.

Hein, Andrew S. (2009) Quaternary glaciations in the Lago Pueyrredón Valley, Argentina.

Parry, Victoria (2009) Densification and refreezing in the percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Implications for mass balance measurements.

Jamieson, Stewart S. R. (2008) Modelling landscape evolution under ice sheets.

Sundal, Aud V. (2008) Evolution of supraglacial lakes across the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Higgins, Daniel D. (2007) Frictional behaviour of rubber on ice.

Buckingham, Mark-Paul (2006) Acquisition systems for in situ monitoring of athletes and equipment in curling and snowboarding.

Casely, Andrew F. (2006) Medieval climate change and settlement in Iceland.

Fyffe, Blair (2006) Mechanisms of snow slab avalanche release.

Sugden, Lindsay (2006) Glaciers, climate and the “8.2ka event” in Iceland.

Davison, Stephen (2005) Reconstructing the last Pleistocene (Late Devensian) glaciation on the continental margin of northwest Britain.

McKinzey, Krista M. (2005) The “Little Ice Age” maximum in southeast Iceland: Integrating the glacial, climatic and historical records of change.

Corripio, Javier G. (2003) Modelling the energy balance of high altitude glacierised basins in the Central Andes.

Everest, Jeremy D. (2003) The Late Devensian deglaciation in the Cairngorm Mountains, Scotland.

Fogwill, Christopher J. (2003) The application of cosmogenic exposure dating to glacial landforms: Examples from Antarctica and Patagonia.

Hagdorn, Magnus K. M. (2003) Reconstruction of the past and forecast of the future European and British ice sheets and associated sea–level change.

Smith, Kate T. (2003) Holocene jökulhlaups, glacier fluctuations and palaeoenvironment, Mýrdalsjökull, South Iceland.

Roberts, Stephen J. (2002) Quaternary tephrochronology in Iceland: Dating principles and applications.

Wang, Zheng (2002) Numerical modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Bradwell, Tom (2001) Glacier fluctuations, lichenometry and climatic change in Iceland.

Strachan, Sara M. (2001) Geophysical investigation of the Eyjafjallajok̈ull glaciovolcanic system, South Iceland, using radio-echo sounding.

Mackintosh, Andrew N. (2000) Glacier fluctuations and climatic change in Iceland.

Perry, Jonathan E. H. (1999) Reconstructing the character of the eastern sector of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet using remote sensing.

Spedding, Nicholas (1999) Meltwater controls on ice-marginal sedimentation.

Cockburn, Hermione A. P. (1998) Landscape evolution in Namibia and Antarctica: Quantifying denudation rates using in-situ cosmogenic isotope analysis.

Guðmundsson, Hjalti J. (1998) Holocene glacier fluctuations and tephrochronology of the Öræfi district, Iceland.

Hubbard, Alun L. (1998) High-resolution modelling of glacier flow.

Broadgate, Marianne L. (1997) Integrated approach to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using GIS.

Dalgleish, Alexander N. (1996) Statistical characterisation of long term climate change.

Dongelmans, Pieter (1996) Glacial dynamics of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet: A remote-sensing study.

Hunt, John B. (1996) Quaternary tephrology and tephrochronology of the North Atlantic region.

Praeg, Daniel (1996) Morphology, stratigraphy and genesis of buried mid-Pleistocene tunnel valleys in the southern North Sea Basin.

Bentley, Michael J. (1995) Moraines in the Chilean Lake District: Form, process and chronology.

Greene, Debbie R. (1995) Loch Lomond Stadial ice cap in western Lochaber, Scotland.

Lloyd, Jeremy M. (1994) Palaeoceanography and glacial history of the Greenland Sea and Spitsbergen ice cap over the last 200 ka.

Glasser, Neil F. (1993) Modelling the effects of topography on ice-sheet erosion, Scotland.

Kerr, Andrew R. (1993) Modelling the response of ice sheets to climatic change and topography.

Marchant, David R. (1993) Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene palaeoclimate and glacial history of the western Dry Valleys region, Antarctica.

Dobbie, Karen E. (1992) Till geotechnics and ice-sheet dynamics.

Hall, Alison (1992) Interaction between climate and ice sheets, with special reference to the boundary layer of the ablation zone.

Hulton, Nicholas R. J. (1992) Modelling the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Bennett, Matthew R. (1991) Scottish “hummocky moraine”: Its implications for the deglaciation of the north west Highlands during the Younger Dryas or Loch Lomond Stadial.

Stewart, Fiona S. (1991) Reconstruction of the eastern margin of the late Weichselian Ice Sheet in northern Britain.

Clark, Christopher D. (1990) Reconstruction of the behaviour of the Laurentide Ice Sheet using satellite imagery.

Warren, Charles R. (1990) Iceberg calving and ice-sheet margin dynamics, West Greenland.

Payne, Antony J. (1988) Modelling former ice sheets.

Bent, Alastair J. A. (1986) Aspects of Pleistocene glaciomarine sequences in the North Sea.

Alexander, Alan J. (1985) Palynological, stratigraphic and chemical analyses of sediments in the Lothians, with particular reference to the Lateglacial.

Davison, Richard W. (1985) The measurement of the natural potential of sites in the eastern Highlands of Scotland for downhill skiing.

Holmes, Graham (1984) Rock-slope failure in parts of the Scottish Highlands.

Haflidason, Haflidi (1983) The marine geology of Eyjafjordur, north Iceland: Sedimentological, petrolographical and stratigraphical studies.

Lawson, Timothy J. (1983) Quaternary geomorphology of the Assynt area, N.W. Scotland.

Chattopadhyay, Guru Prasad (1982) Periglacial geomorphology of parts of the Grampian Highlands of Scotland.

Hodgson, David (1982) Hummocky and fluted moraines in part of north-west Scotland.

Ballantyne, Colin K. (1981) Periglacial landforms and environments on mountains in the Northern Highlands of Scotland.

Dale, Mary L. (1981) Rock walls in glacier source areas in part of the Highlands of Scotland.

Martin, John H. (1981) Quaternary glaciofluvial deposits in central Scotland: Sedimentology and economic geology.

Sutherland, Donald G. (1981) Raised shorelines and deglaciation of the Loch Long/Loch Fyne area, Western Scotland.

Wain-Hobson, Timothy (1981) Aspects of the glacial and postglacial history of north-west Argyll.

Cornish, Roger (1980) Glacial geomorphology of the west-central Southern Uplands of Scotland, with particular reference to “rogen moraines”.

Dawson, Alastair G. (1979) Raised shorelines of Jura, Scarba and NE Islay.

Kerr, Robert J. (1978) Nature and derivation of glacial till in part of the Tweed basin.

Lowe, J. John (1977) Pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating of Lateglacial and Early Flandrian deposits in southern Perthshire.

Robinson, Mary (1977) Glacial limits, sea-level changes and vegetational development in part of Wester Ross.

Shakesby, Richard A. (1977) Lennoxtown Essexite erratics train, central Scotland.

Shaw, Raynor (1977) Periglacial features in part of the south-east Grampian Highlands of Scotland.

Brooks, Clive L. (1976) Pollen analyses of late- and post-glacial deposits in the Western Forth Valley.

Menzies, John (1976) Glacial geomorphology of Glasgow with particular reference to the drumlins.

Binns, Paul E. (1975) The geology of the Sea of the Hebrides.

Walker, Michael J. C. (1975) Lateglacial and early postglacial environments in part of the Grampian Highlands of Scotland.

McGregor, Duncan F. M. (1978) Quantitative analysis of some fluvioglacial deposits from east-central Scotland.

Gray, J. Murray (1973) The inter-, late- and post-glacial shorelines, and ice limits of Lorn and eastern Mull.

Cullingford, Robin A. (1972) Lateglacial and postglacial shoreline displacement in the Earn-Tay area and Eastern Fife.

Thompson, Kenneth S. R. (1972) The last glaciers in western Perthshire.

Rhind, David W. (1968) Terraces of the Tweed Valley.

Clapperton, Chalmers M. (1967) The deglaciation of the East Cheviot area, Northumberland.

Kirby, Roger P. (1966) Glacial geomorphology of the Esk Basin, Midlothian.

Young, James A. T. (1966) Analysis of glacial deposits near Fala, Midlothian.

Smith, David E. (1965) Late- and post-glacial changes of shoreline on the northern side of the Forth valley and estuary.

Price, Robert J. (1961) The deglaciation of the Tweed drainage area west of Innerleithen.

Common, Robert (1953) A contribution to the geomorphology of the East Cheviot area.

Galloway, Robert W. (1953) Periglacial phenomena in Scotland.

Bremner, Alexander (1913) Physical geology of the Dee valley.

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