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Published MPhil research

Published MPhil research

Many of our MPhil students have gone on to publish their research in the scientific or academic literature.

A selection of recent papers deriving from MPhil dissertations or essays includes:

  • BOXALL, K., Willis, I., Giese, A. and Liu, Q., 2021. Quantifying Patterns of Supraglacial Debris Thickness and Their Glaciological Controls in High Mountain Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science, v. 9, p.657440-.
  • VALE, A.B., Arnold, N.S., Rees, W.G. and Lea, J.M., 2021. Remote Detection of Surge-Related Glacier Terminus Change across High Mountain Asia. Remote Sensing, v. 13, p.1309-.
  • KIRKHAM, J., Hogan, K.A., Larter, R.D., Arnold, N.S., Nitsche, F.O., Kuhn, G., Gohl, K., Anderson, J.B. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2020. Morphometry of bedrock meltwater channels on Antarctic inner continental shelves. Geomorphology, 370.
  • KIRKHAM, J.D., Hogan, K.A., Larter, R.D., Arnold, N.S., Nitsche, F., Gollege, N.R. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2019. Past water flow beneath Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 13, 1959-1981.
  • LAW, R., Arnold, N., BENEDEK, C., Tedesco, M., Banwell, A. and Willis, I. 2020: Over-winter persistence of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Results and insights from a new model. J. Glaciol., 66, 362-372.
  • CHUDLEY, T.R. and Willis, I.C., 2019. Glacier surges in the north-west West Kunlun Shan inferred from 1972 to 2017 Landsat imagery. Journal of Glaciology, 65, 1-12.
  • SEAG, M.C., 2017, Women Need Not Apply: Gendered institutional change in Antarctica and Outer Space. The Polar Journal, 7, 319-335.
  • COOLEY, S.W. and Christoffersen, P., 2017. Observation bias correction reveals more rapidly draining lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 122, 1867-1881.
  • Hodell, D.A., Nicholl, J.A., Bontognall, T., DANINO, S., Dorador, J., Dowdeswell, J.A., Einsel, J., Kuhlmann, H., Martrat, B., Mleneck-Vautravers, M.J., Rodriguez-Tovar, F.J. and Rohl, U., 2017. Anatomy of Heinrich Layer 1 and its role in the last deglaciation. Palaeoceanography, 32, 284-303.
  • MILES, K.E., Willis, I.C., Benedek, C.L., Williamson, A.G. and Tedesco, M., 2017. Toward Monitoring Surface and Subsurface Lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Landsat-8 OLI Imagery. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, 58-
  • POPE, A., WILLIS, I.C., PÁLSSON, F., ARNOLD, N.S., REES, W.G., BJÖRNSSON, H. and GREY, L, 2016. Elevation change, mass balance, dynamics and surging of Langjökull, Iceland from 1997 to 2007. Journal of Glaciology, 62, 497-511.
  • POPE, E.L., Willis, I.C., Pope, A., Miles, E.S., Arnold, N.S. and Rees, W.G., 2016. Contrasting snow and ice albedos derived from MODIS, Landsat ETM+ and airborne data from Langjökull, Iceland. Remote Sensing of Environment, 175, 183-195.
  • RYAN, J.C., Dowdeswell, J.A. and Hogan, K.A., 2016. Three cross-shelf troughs on the continental shelf of SW Greenland from Olex data. In Dowdeswell, J.A. et al., (eds), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and Ancient. Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 46, 167-168.
  • Willis, I.C., POPE, E.L., Leysinger Veili, G., Arnold, N.S. and LONG, S., 2016. Drainage networks, lakes and water fluxes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Annals of Glaciology, 57, 96-108.
  • BENNETT, M.M., 2015, How China sees the Arctic: reading between intraregional and extraregional narratives. Geopolitics, 20, 645-668.
  • MAYAUD, J.R., Banwell, A.F., Arnold, N.S. and Willis, I.C., 2014. Modeling the response of subglacial drainage at Paakitsoq, west Greenland, to 21st century climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119, 2619-2634.
  • BENNETT, M.M., 2014, The maritime tiger: exploring South Korea's interests and role in the Arctic. Strategic Analysis, 38, 886-903.
  • BENNETT, M.M., 2014, North by northeast: toward an Asian-Arctic region. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55, 71-93.
  • BENNETT, M.M., 2013, Bounding nature: conservation and sovereignty in the Canadian and Russian Arctic. Arctic Yearbook 2(1), 85-106.
  • Banwell, A.F., Willis, I.C., Arnold, N.S., MESSERLI, A., Rye, C.J., Tedesco, M. and Ahlstrøm, A.P., 2012. Calibration and evaluation of a high-resolution surface mass-balance model for Paakitsoq, West Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 58, 1047-1062.
  • TEDSTONE, A.J. and Arnold, N.S., 2012. Automated remote sensing of sediment plumes for identification of runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Glaciology, 58, 699-712.
  • BATCHELOR, C.L., Dowdeswell, J.A. and Hogan, K.A., 2011. Late Quaternary ice flow and sediment delivery through Hinlopen Trough, northern Svalbard margin: submarine landforms and depositional fan. Marine Geology, 284, 13-27.
  • ROBINSON, P. and Dowdeswell, J.A., 2011. Submarine landforms and the behavior of a surging ice cap since the Last Glacial Maximum: the open-marine setting of eastern Austfonna, Svalbard. Marine Geology, 286, 82-94.
  • METZ, J., Dowdeswell, J.A. and Woodworth-Lynas, C.M.T., 2008. Sea-floor scouring at the mouth of Hudson Strait by deep-keeled icebergs from the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Marine Geology, 253, 149-159.