Prof Neil Glasser

Prof Neil Glasser

Pro Vice-Chancellor: Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences

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Professor Neil Glasser 
Pro Vice-Chancellor Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences

 

Neil Glasser joined Aberystwyth University in April 1999 as a Lecturer in Physical Geography and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2004 and Professor in 2006. In 2006-2007 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. He has twice been a member of the NERC Peer Review College (2005-2008 and 2011-present) and was a member of the Steering Committee for the NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility (2007-2013). Neil also serves as an editor of the Journal of Glaciology and is the Founding Editor of Quaternary Sciences Advances

 

Recent research grants and papers include contributions on using glacial erosional landforms to reconstruct former ice sheets, the role of structural glaciology in debris entrainment, deposition and landform development, the response of debris-covered glaciers to climate change and the long-term glacial history of Antarctica. He is currently working on large data sets concerned with the response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to climate change, Himalayan glacial lake outburst floods and future water availability, and the microbiology of Arctic ice masses.  

 

He is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, which contains three large Academic Departments (Life Sciences, Geography & Earth Sciences and Psychology) as well as a large Research Institute (IBERS).    He holds AU Executive-level responsibility for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Environment & Sustainability.

Teaching

Tutor

Glaciology and glacial geomorphology, particularly in the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas and Patagonia

Research

Research Interests

  • Glaciology and glacial geomorphology, particularly in the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas and Patagonia.
  • debris covered glaciers

DGES Projects

MAGIC-DML stands for Mapping/Measuring/Modelling Antarctic Geomorphology and Ice-elevation Change in Dronning Maud Land (DML). We have assembled a major international team who will travel to Dronning Maud Land in 2015/16 to undertake fieldwork, with full logistical support from the Swedish Polar Secretariat.

You can follow the expedition plans and progress on Twitter: @MAGICDML and on Facebook

 

Responsibilities

AU Executive-level responsibility for:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Sustainability

Research Groups

Publications

ASTER Team, Roman, M, Nývlt, D, Davies, BJ, Braucher, R, Jennings, SJA, Břežný, M, Glasser, NF, Hambrey, MJ, Lirio, JM & Rodés, Á 2024, 'Accelerated retreat of northern James Ross Island ice streams (Antarctic Peninsula) in the Early-Middle Holocene induced by buoyancy response to postglacial sea level rise', Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 641, 118803. 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118803
Wood, JL, Harrison, S, Wilson, R, Emmer, A, Kargel, JS, Cook, SJ, Glasser, NF, Reynolds, JM, Shugar, DH & Yarleque, C 2024, 'Shaking up Assumptions: Earthquakes Have Rarely Triggered Andean Glacier Lake Outburst Floods', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 51, no. 7, e2023GL105578. 10.1029/2023GL105578
Izagirre, E, Glasser, N, Menounos, B, Aravena, JC, Faria, S & Antiguedad, I 2024, 'The glacial geomorphology of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield, Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America', Journal of Maps, vol. 20, no. 1, 2378000. 10.1080/17445647.2024.2378000
Roman, M, Píšková, A, Sanderson, DCW, Cresswell, AJ, Bulínová, M, Pokorný, M, Kavan, J, Jennings, SJA, Lirio, JM, Nedbalová, L, Sacherová, V, Kopalová, K, Glasser, NF & Nývlt, D 2024, 'The Late Holocene deglaciation of James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula: OSL and 14C-dated multi-proxy sedimentary record from Monolith Lake', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 333, 108693. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108693
Wolff, IW, Glasser, NF, Harrison, S, Wood, JL & Hubbard, A 2023, 'A steady-state model reconstruction of the patagonian ice sheet during the last glacial maximum', Quaternary Science Advances , vol. 12, 100103. 10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100103
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