Professor Bryn Hubbard

Professor
BA Geography (University of Oxford)
PhD (University of Cambridge) Photograph of Professor Bryn Hubbard.

Contact

Email: byh@aber.ac.uk
Office: J9
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 783
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/byh/

Responsibilities

  • Director of Research
  • Director of the Centre for Glaciology

 

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

Module coordinator for:

  • Analysis And Presentation Of Geographical Data (GG21710)
  • Process Glaciology (GG30320)
  • Approaches to Glaciology (EAM0820)

Contributes to:

  • Earth Surface Environments (GG10610)
  • Glaciological Field Techniques (EAM2320)
  • Research Skills in Physical Geography (GG20230)
  • Research Skills in Geography (GG20130)
  • Research Skills in Human Geography (GG25030)

Research

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Group Affiliation

Research Interests

Current research interests include: interrelationships between ice properties and models of ice-mass motion; the physical character of glacier and basal ice; causes and consequences of the formation of basal ice facies at Alpine glaciers; regelation processes and the physical evidence for their occurrence at the glacier bed; the structure and dynamics of englacial and subglacial water systems; associations between glacier hydrology and glacier hydrochemistry; physical character of subglacial sediments and proglacial bedrock.Research experience includes seventeen consecutive years of fieldwork at glaciers in the European Alps, Peru, Antarctica, Svalbard, the Canadian Rockies, Norway, and the Canadian Arctic. Research-related activities include scientific editor for the Journal of Glaciology, Vice President of the British Branch of the International Glaciological Society and UK Correspondent to the International Glaciological Society.

Biography

Dr Bryn Hubbard graduated from the University of Oxford in 1986 with a BA in Geography. After travelling for two years, this was followed by a PhD ('Basal ice facies and their formation in the western Alps') from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He worked for two years (1992 - 1994) as a NERC-funded PDRA ('Water storage, drainage evolution and water quality in Alpine glacial environments') at the University of Cambridge before moving to Aberystwyth in 1994 as Lecturer in Glaciology in the newly-established Centre for Glaciology. Bryn was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2001 and Reader in 2005. He was a Scientific Editor of the (Geology) Journal of Glaciology between 2005 and 2009. Associate Editor for the Journal of Geophysical Research, UK Correspondent to the International Glaciological Society, and a member of the NERC Peer Review College. He was President of the British Branch of the International Glaciological Society between 2005 and 2007.

Additional Interests

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Postgraduate Students

Student name: Mr. Samuel Doyle

Student primary affiliation: Aberystwyth University

Thesis title: Ice motion at the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Funding source: Aberystwyth University and Greenland Analogue Project

Supervisory role: Secondary supervisor

Status: Currently in first year

 

Student name: Mr. Terry Malone

Student primary affiliation: Aberystwyth University

Thesis title: Automated analysis of optical televiewer images from boreholes in ice

Funding source: Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships

Supervisory role: Primary supervisor with Industrial Partner Robertson Geologging Ltd, Deganwy, UK

Status: Currently in second year

 

Student name: Mr. Colin Souness

Student primary affiliation: Aberystwyth University

Thesis title: Martian glacier-like forms: origins and landscape interactions

Funding source: Aberystwyth University and NERC

Supervisory role: Primary supervisor

Status: Currently in second year

 

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2012

  1. Hubbard, B., Tison, J.-L., Pattyn, F., Dierckx, M., Boereboom, T. and Samyn, D. 2012. Optical televiewer-based identification and characterization of material facies associated with an Antarctic ice-shelf rift.  Annals of Glaciology 53 (60), 137-146. DOI
  2. Souness, C. and Hubbard, B. 2012. Mid-latitude glaciation on Mars.  Progress in Physical Geography. DOI
  3. Souness, C., Hubbard, B., Milliken, R.E. and Quincey, D. 2012. An inventory and population-scale analysis of martian glacier-like forms. Icarus 217 (1), 243-255 DOI

2011

  1. Roberson, S., Hubbard, B. and Coulson, H. 2011. Physical properties and formation of flutes at a polythermal valley glacier: Midre Lovénbreen, Svalbard. Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography 93, 71-88 DOI
  2. Hubbard, B., Milliken, R.E., Kargel, J.S., Limaye, A. and Souness, C. 2011. Geomorphological characterisation and interpretation of a mid-latitude glacier-like form: Hellas Planitia, Mars. Icarus 211 (1), 330-346. DOI
  3. Hubbard, B. 2011. Subglacial drainage system. Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. V. P. Singh, P. Singh and U. K. Haritashya, Springer, 1095-0199 DOI
  4. Fischer, U.H., Mair, D., Kavanaugh, J.L., Willis, I., Nienow, P and Hubbard, B. 2010. Modelling ice-bed coupling during a glacier speed-up event: Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland. Hydrological Processes 25 (9), 1361-1372. DOI
  5. Edwards, A., Anesio, A.M., Rassner, S.M., Sattler, B., Hubbard, B., Perkins, W.T., Young, M. and Griffith, G.W. 2011. Possible interactions between bacterial diversity, microbial activity and supraglacial hydrology of cryoconite holes in Svalbard. The ISME Journal 5, 150-160. DOI

2010

  1. Roberson, S. and Hubbard, B. 2010. Application of borehole optical televiewing to investigating the 3-D structure of glaciers: implications for the formation of longitudinal debris ridges, midre Lovenbreen, Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology 56 (195), 143-156. DOI

2009

  1. Hubbard B, Cook S, Coulson H. 2009. Basal ice facies: a review and unifying approach. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 1956-1969.

2008

  1. Hubbard B, Clemmens S. 2008. Recent high-resolution surface velocity and elevation change at a high-altitude, debris-covered glacier: Chacraraju, Peru. Journal of Glaciology, 54(186): 479-486. DOI
  2. Hubbard B, Roberson S, Samyn D, Merton-Lyn D. 2008. Digital optical televiewing of ice boreholes. Journal of Glaciology, 54(188): 823-830.
  3. Mair D, Hubbard B, Nienow P, Willis I, Fischer UH. 2008. Diurnal fluctuations in glacier ice deformation: Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33(8): 1272-1284. DOI
  4. Chandler DM, Hubbard B. 2008. Quantifying sample bias in clast fabric measurements. Sedimentology, 55: 925-938. DOI
  5. Chandler DM, Hubbard B, Hubbard A, Murray T, Rippin D. 2008. Optimising ice flow law parameters using borehole deformation measurements and numerical modelling. Geophysical Research Letters, 35(L12502) DOI

2007

  1. Parry V, Nienow P, Mair D, Scott J, Hubbard B, Steffen K, Wingham D. 2007. Investigations of meltwater refreezing and density variations in the snowpack and firn within the percolation zone of the Greenland ice sheet. Annals of Glaciology, 46: 61-68.
  2. West LJ, Rippin DM, Murray T, Mader HM, Hubbard B. 2007. Dielectric permittivity measurements on ice cores: Implications for interpretation of radar to yield glacial unfrozen water content. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 12: 37-45.

2006

  1. Kulessa B, Hubbard B, Brown GH. 2006. Time-lapse imaging of subglacial drainage conditions using three-dimensional inversion of borehole electrical resistivity data. Journal of Glaciology, 52: 49-57.
  2. Chandler DM, Hubbard AL, Hubbard BP, Nienow PW. 2006. A Monte Carlo error analysis for basal sliding velocity calculations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 111.
  3. Fischer UH, Hubbard B. 2006. Borehole-based subglacial instrumentation. Glacier Science and Environmental Change, : 387-394.
  4. Hubbard B. 2006. Glacier structure and motion: the use of field data to direct models of ice-mass motion. Glacier Science and Environmental Change, : 338-345.

2005

  1. Hubbard B, Heald A, Reynolds JM, Quincey D, Richardson SD, Luyo MZ, Portilla NS, Hambrey MJ. 2005. Impact of a rock avalanche on a moraine-dammed proglacial lake: Laguna Safuna Alta, Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 30: 1251-1264.
  2. Nienow PW, Hubbard AL, Hubbard BP, Chandler DM, Mair DWF, Sharp MJ, Willis IC. 2005. Hydrological controls on diurnal ice flow variability in valley glaciers. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 110
  3. Hambrey MJ, Murray T, Glasser NF, Hubbard A, Hubbard B, Stuart G, Hansen S, Kohler J. 2005. Structure and changing dynamics of a polythermal valley glacier on a centennial timescale: Midre Lovenbreen, Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 110 Abstract
  4. Kulessa B, Hubbard B, Williamson M, Brown GH. 2005. Hydrogeological analysis of slug tests in glacier boreholes. Journal of Glaciology, 51: 269-280.

Conference Proceedings

2007

  1. Hambrey MJ, Christoffersen P, Glasser NF, Hubbard B. 2007. Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products, 39

Miscellaneous

2007

  1. Hambrey MJ, Christoffersen P, Glasser NF, Hubbard B. 2007. Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products. International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products, 39