Dr Morgan Jones BSc (Hons) Geology and Physical Geography. MSc Glaciology, PhD Glaciology, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Email: moj17@aber.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0002-5281-524X
Office: J10, Llandinam Building
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621523
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=j1GTMdsAAAAJ
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Morgan undertook a combined Geology and Physical Geography degree at the University of Edinburgh and developed a particular interest in glacial geology and geomorphology. For her dissertation she investigated how rock debris characteristics, such as porosity and grain size, affect the insulating ability of supraglacial debris.

In 2012, to further her knowledge of glaciology, she undertook the MSc in Glaciology at Aberystwyth University. For her dissertation she investigated how the spatial distribution and extent of supraglacial cryoconite affects glacier albedo. Morgan then went on to complete a PhD within the Centre for Glaciology at Aberystwyth University, focused on determining the importance of supraglacial debris in the response of Himalayan glaciers to Quaternary and future climate changes.

Since completing her PhD, Morgan has worked as a lecturer in Physical Geography and Earth Science at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cumbria, with her teaching focus on glacial and fluvial processes, contemporary climate and environmental change and Earth Science.

Morgan's research continues to focus on the response of debris-covered glaciers to climate change, as well as debris-covered glacier evolution and the role of glacier change in fluvial geomorphological changes. More recently Morgan has started researching the role of geological and hydrological hazards in mountainous regions, considering how climate change will affect these hazard effects.

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Publications

Williams, R, Griffiths, H, Carr, RJ, Hepburn, A, Gibson, M, Williams, J & Irvine-Fynn, T 2022, 'Integrating historical, geomorphological and sedimentological insights to reconstruct past floods: Insights from Kea Point, Mt. Cook Village, Aotearoa New Zealand', Geomorphology, vol. 398, 108028. 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108028

Rowan, AV, Nicholson, LI, Quincey, DJ, Gibson, MJ, Irvine-Fynn, TDL, Watson, CS, Wagnon, P, Rounce, DR, Thompson, SS, Porter, PR & Glasser, NF 2021, 'Seasonally stable temperature gradients through supraglacial debris in the Everest region of Nepal, Central Himalaya', Journal of Glaciology, vol. 67, no. 261, pp. 170-181. 10.1017/jog.2020.100

Rowan, AV, Quincey, DJ, Gibson, M, Glasser, N, Westoby, MJ, Irvine-Fynn, T, Porter, PR & Hambrey, M 2018, 'The sustainability of water resources in High Mountain Asia in the context of recent and future glacier change', Geological Society Special Publications, vol. 462, no. 1, pp. 189-204. 10.1144/SP462.12

Gibson, MJ, Irvine-Fynn, TDL, Wagnon, P, Rowan, AV, Quincey, DJ, Homer, R & Glasser, NF 2018, 'Variations in near‐surface debris temperature through the summer monsoon on Khumbu Glacier, Nepal Himalaya', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 43, no. 13, pp. 2698-2714. 10.1002/esp.4425

Gibson, M, Glasser, N, Quincey, DJ, Rowan, AV & Irvine-Fynn, T 2017, 'Changes in glacier surface cover on Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, north Pakistan, 2001–2012', Journal of Maps, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 100-108. 10.1080/17445647.2016.1264319

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