Scott Polar Research Institute, U.K.

U.K. Polar Network

Past APECS Executive Committee member

My undergraduate background has varied from human geography, political science and Italian language, to glaciology, atmospheric science, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), undertaken in both New Zealand and Western Australia. Since graduating I undertook the Gateway Antarctica (NZ) Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies , which took me to Antarctica, a Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Fellowship, allowing six months research on ice sheet modelling at the University of Bristol, the Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, University of Cambridge, and the Karthaus Glaciers in the Climate System Summer School, Italy. Currently I am undertaking my PhD at Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

My broad research interests are: behaviour and history of past and present ice sheets; subglacial processes and the flow of ice; numerical modelling of ice dynamics and hydrological processes; remote sensing of the cryosphere; and the role of the cryosphere in Earth's climate system. My research investigates how the Siple Coast ice streams in West Antarctica respond to possible changes in subglacial water flows. I am developing a numerical model, the HIT flowline model, that couples Hydrology, Ice thermodynamics and Till rheology and am applying the coupled model to the stagnant Kamb Ice Stream (Ice Stream C) to determine why the ice stream became stagnant and whether changing subglacial water flows could restart its flow.

I am Finance Coordinator for the UK Polar Network and an Executive Committee member and the Treasurer of the Association of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS). Visit my website.