Research Themes

Ressearch projects undertaken by the Centre for Glaciology include:

• BritMod - Modelling the dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet
• Past response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to climatic change
• The Patagonian Icefields: landforms, sediments and glacier fluctuations
• Glacial processes in the Peruvian Andes and the Nepalese Himalaya, and implications for glacier hazards
• Glacier dynamics, structure and sedimentation of polythermal glaciers, Svalbard
• Valley glacier dynamics and structure
• Reconstructing Quaternary glacial palaeoenvironments in Wales
• A glacial geological inversion model of the Welsh Ice Sheet
• Welsh geomorphological map pilot project
• Glacial History of the NE Antarctic Peninsula