Academic History

• Associate Professor of Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK (2024-present)
• Assistant Professor of Physical Geography, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK (2022-2024)
• Associate Professor of Glaciology, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (2020-2022)
• Lecturer in Physical Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (2016-2020)
• Visiting Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, UK (2015-2016)
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden (2012-2016)
• Visiting Researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (2010-2011)

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), University of Plymouth, UK, 2017
• PhD, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, UK (2008-2012) “Quantitative controls on the routing of supraglacial meltwater to the bed of glaciers and ice sheets”
• 1st class BSc (Hons) Geography and Environmental Science, University of Dundee, UK (2004-2008). Dissertation: “A comparison of measured and modelled ablation for ice cliffs of varying orientation, Miage Glacier, Monte Bianco, Italian Alps”

Leadership and community roles

• Co-Director of the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR), Durham University (2025-present)
• Co-Editor-in-Chief at The Cryosphere (2025-present)
• Co-Chair of IACS Working Group on Cryosphere Stewardship (2026-2029)
• Editor at The Cryosphere (2022-present)
• External Examiner for the MSc (Res) in Polar and Alpine Change at the University of Sheffield (2024-present)
• Member of the UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership Steering Committee (2022-present)
• Deputy Director of Services and Deputy Chair of the Information Technology, Laboratory and Equipment Committee (ITLE) committee, Department of Geography, Durham University (2023-2025)
• Editorial Advisory Board member for Journal of Quaternary Science (2021-2025)
• Leader for the Centre for Research in Environment and Society, University of Plymouth (2019-2022)

Awards and Funding

• NERC-CONCYTEC (Newton Fund) UK-Peru collaborative project on “Integrated upstream and downstream thinking to mitigate the water security challenges of Peruvian glacier retreat”. £458,211, 2019-2022 (P.I.)
• INTERACT Transnational Access, “Subglacial Hydrology Analysis using Repeat Drone Survey (SHARDS)”, €5400, (co-I.), 2022.
• GCRF (internal competition) for “Nuestro Rio (our river): Local perspectives on water quality in the Rio Santa, Peru”. £55,526, 2020-2021 (co-I).
• INTERACT Transnational Access, “The radioactive memory of high Arctic glaciers: Rad-ICE”, €21070, 2020-2022 (co-I.).
• BBSRC, UKRI Public Engagement Research Grant to support the project “GlacierMap: mapping glacier change in the Peruvian Andes”. £20063, 2020 (P.I.)
• RGS Environment and Sustainability Research Grant: £15,000 to support work on “Release of legacy fallout radionuclides from retreating glaciers: co-producing ‘risk maps’ with the Sami to inform adaptations to an emerging threat in Arctic Sweden”, 2018-2019 (co P.I.)
• Seed project funding (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences): £5000 to support a workshop and sample analysis to assess the prevalence of fallout radionuclides across currently glaciated high latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, 2018-2019 (P.I.)
• QRA Quaternary Research Fund: £1250 to support fieldwork on “Accumulation of historical anthropogenic pollutants in the supraglacial environment: a case study on SE Iceland”, 2018 (P.I.)
• INTERACT Transnational Access: €2926 to support fieldwork in Sweden on “Glacier Recession as a Source of Environmental Pollutants”, 2017 (P.I.)
• Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning: 295500 SEK postdoctoral research grant on “A combined geomorphological and modelling approach to reconstructing the deglaciation of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet”, 2014-2015 (P.I.)
• Bolin Climate Centre grant: 20000 SEK for collaborative ice sheet modelling work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, 2013 (P.I.)
• Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship: £17000 for research on “Meltwater-enhanced sliding of glaciers: A predictive model for routing of surface meltwater to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet” within a one year placement at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2010-2011 (P.I.)
• AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award 2010, for “Modelling meltwater delivery to the ice-bed interface through full thickness fractures on outlet glaciers of the western Greenland Ice Sheet”
• Royal Scottish Geographical Society University Medal 2008

Supervision (current)

• 2023-present: Lauren Gill, “Human remains in a changing climate: the effect of extreme temperatures on the taphonomy and trauma of human remains and the intersection of forensic anthropology with global climate change”, Durham University (PhD; co-supervisor).
• 2022-present: Holly Wytiahlowsky, “Rivers on ice: do supraglacial channels evolve like bedrock rivers?”, Durham University (PhD; co-supervisor).

Supervision (past)

• 2021-2025: Enrique Gabriel Munoz Arcos, “Evaluating sediment residence time for improved management of legacy and contemporary river basin pollution”, University of Plymouth (PhD; co-supervisor).
• 2019-2025: Dylan Beard, “Glaciers as secondary sources of anthropogenic pollutants: an emerging socio-environmental, challenge”, University of Plymouth (PhD; primary supervisor).
• 2020-2024: Jessica Kitch, “Quantifying and predicting Andean sediment dynamic response to natural and anthropogenic changes at the basin scale”, University of Plymouth (PhD; primary supervisor).
• 2019-2024: Luis Ovando Fuentealba, “Validation of a hierarchical mixing model within a catchment sediment budget context”, University of Plymouth (PhD; co-supervisor).
• 2014: Caroline Coch, “Pathways and transit time of meltwater in the englacial drainage system of Rabots Glacier, Kebnekaise, Sweden”, Stockholm University (Master’s; primary supervisor).
• 2014: Ane LaBianca, “Spreading of petroleum products spilled in a glacier environment at Kebnekaise, Northern Sweden”, Stockholm University (Master’s; primary supervisor).