Centre for Glaciology Research

  

The Centre for Glaciology was founded in 1994 as a formal research unit within Aberystwyth University, and has since become of the leading British research groups concerned with the study of glaciers and their sedimentary products.

Our research aims to identify and measure cryospheric processes and evaluate their role in past, present and future global environmental change. The emphasis on field research in process glaciology is intended to provide realistic constraints on the development of numerical models, and to underpin the interpretation of past glacial records.

Our core research themes are glacier dynamics, palaeoglaciology and applied glaciology.

To support our research, the Centre offers a Ph.D. programme and a one-year M.Sc. in Glaciology.

On-going research by the Centre for Glaciology:

Structure, dynamics and stability of Antarctic ice shelves: field research
‌Structure, dynamics and stability of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Field research	Structure, dynamics and stability of Antarctic Ice Shelves: Remote Sensing	WISSARD and GBASE	Glacial History of NE Antarctic Peninsula
Predicting the response of debris-covered glaciers to climate change	Monitoring processes, interactions and feedbacks in supraglacial environments	The geomicrobiology of glacial systems	Hydrological flowpaths in Arctic glaciers catchments
Application of Optical Televiewing to ice-mass boreholes: NEEM	Methanogenesis in subglacial environments	Influence of bedrock mineral composition on microbial diversity in subglacial environments	Physical glaciology of martian glacier-like forms
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Cenozoic glacial history of Antarctica	Testing the Snowball Earth hypothesis in the Arctic	Dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet	Numerical modelling of the British Irish Ice Sheet
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