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Employs 5 PDRAs, including one at Newcastle, supervised by Bethan Davies. Davies is co-lead of the project, leader to Work Package 1, and has 15% time buy-out with this grant. €31,719, Jan-22, University of Vienna.
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Email: bethan [at] AntarcticGlaciers.org , bethan dot davies [at] newcastle.ac.uk Address: Dr Bethan Davies, Department of Geography, Newcastle University ORCID ID
I am a glaciologist specialising in reconstructing glacier dynamics over multiple timescales, from both field and remotely sensed data, particularly in the Antarctic Peninsula, Europe, Britain, Alaska and Patagonia. I am interested in how glaciers across the world are responding to climate change, and how this will affect sea level rise and water r...
I have been awarded several prizes for my work, including the Gordon Warwick Medal for excellence in geomorphological research by the British Society for Geomorphology (2021) and theLewis Penny Medal for excellence in researching British Quaternary Stratigraphy by the Quaternary Research Association (2014). I am the 2022 recipient of the 2022 SCAR ...
I have several PhD students. Completed students: 1. Julian Martin (completed 2020) 2. Thomas Vandyk (completed 2021) 3. Emma Cooper (completed 2023), Current students: 1. Jack Mason (University of Ulster) 2. Anjali Dhunna (RHUL) 3. Alex Clark (RHUL) 4. Gunjan Silwal (Newcastle) 5. Paulina Mejias-Osorio (University of Vienna) Please get in touch if ...
Following an undergraduate degree in Geography at Nottingham University (2004), and an MSc in Quaternary Science at Royal Holloway, University of London (2005), I undertook a PhD in Glacial Geology at Durham University (2009). My thesis was called: “British and Fennoscandian ice-sheet interactions during the Quaternary”. This involved spending a lo...
Glacier and ice-sheet modelling
I am interested in using numerical computer models to understand how climate interacts with glaciers and ice sheets. For examples, I am interested in using glacier models to constrain cryospheric response to climate change, and to relate glacier fluctuations, reconstructed from field evidence, to climate. In 2013 I was awarded a SCAR (Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research)Fellowship to spend six months at the Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, where I worked on...
Palaeo ice-sheet reconstruction
I am also interested in using geological data to reconstruct past ice-sheet fluctuations. I use geomorphological mapping and chronological techniques to constrain past ice-sheet dynamics and rates and magnitudes of change. I have particular expertise in cosmogenic nuclide dating. During fieldwork, we take rock samples and analyse their isotopic chemistry to see how long they have been exposed to the surface. This gives us the age of ice sheet retreat in the area. I have worked extensively in...
Remote sensing of glacier change
I use satellite images to understand more recent glacier recession and ice-shelf collapse. I have used satellite data to conduct glacier inventories and am a member of the GLIMS initiative, using satellite data to analyse and quantify glaciers in Alaska, Europe, Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula.
August 2024 – date: Professor of Glaciology, Newcastle UniversitySeptember 2022 – January 2023: Ida Pfeiffer Visiting Professor, University of ViennaAugust 2022 – August 2024: Senior Lecturer, Newcastle UniversitySeptember 2014 – August 2022: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Royal Holloway, University of LondonOct 2005 – April 2009: PhD in Quaternary Geology, Durham UniversitySept 2004 – Sept 2005: MSc in Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway, University of LondonSept 2001 – Sept 2004: BA (Hons) in Geography, Nottingham UniversityI have written over 70 publications on these above themes. Citation indices, if you are interested in such things, are available here. See here for an up-to-date list of publications.
Wrote www.AntarcticGlaciers.org(launched June 2012), a website that delivers peer-reviewed science to the public, A-Level and undergraduate students. The website underpins and supports my universit...Public lectures at venues such as the British Science Festival.Production of the FCDO Diversity in Polar Science event, “Polar Environments Day” at RHUL, March 2022.Glaciologist Bethan Davies explains the science behind glaciers and how glaciers are a window into Earth's changing climate. Plus: Are there glaciers on other planets?
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Glaciologist specialising in reconstructing glacier dynamics over multiple timescales from both field- and remotely sensed data, particularly in the Antarctic Peninsula, Patagonia and Britain...
Glaciologist Bethan Davies describes what glaciers are, discusses her field work, and considers the effects of glacial retreat.
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Dec 1, 2007 · Bethan Davies is a lecturer in linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include (im)politeness, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.
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