Dr Tristram Irvine-Fynn

PhD in Geography – Glaciology (University of Sheffield, UK, 2008) MSc in Geography – Glaciology (University of Calgary, Canada, 2004) BA in Geography (University of Cambridge, UK, 2001)

Dr Tristram Irvine-Fynn

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Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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Tris initially joined DGES in Feb 2011 as a process glaciologist Research Fellow employed through the C3W initiative. With earlier experience on temperate alpine glaciers, Tris started researching High-Arctic glaciology on Svalbard in 2000. Supported by a Canadian Memorial Foundation Scholarship, he worked on utilising ground penetrating radar (GPR) to delineate hydrological connections and changes within Stagnation Glacier, Bylot Island, Canadian Arctic; this project yielded an MSc from University of Calgary which was awarded the Chancellors Medal. Subsequently, he returned to the University of Sheffield for his PhD research: a detailed hydrological study of Midtre Lovenbreen, Svalbard. Tris was then employed at Sheffield - funded by The Leverhulme Trust as a PDRA and NERC as a Research Co-Investigator - focusing on projects exploring the "greening of retreating arctic glaciers" in collaboration with the University of Bristol. This area of research has continued in Tris' tenure of the C3W Fellowship, with focus on novel techniques to monitor supraglacial characteristics and processes and close collaboration with colleagues in DLS. In particular, his interests include the hydraulics of near-surface ice, the seasonal development of ice surface roughness and albedo, and feedbacks linked to the important ecological niche that glacier surfaces represent. Throughout his research career Tris has contributed to teaching across a wide range of physical geography courses, including ones based at UNIS (Svalbard).

Group Affiliation

  • Centre for Glaciology (CfG)
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Environmental Microbiology (iCEM)
  • Climate Change Consortium of Wales (C3W)

Research Interests

Tris' research interests are focussed on process glaciology and hydrology, particularly in the High-Arctic:

  • Glacier thermal regime and hydrology
  • Supraglacial processes and ecology
  • Method development for process glaciology
  • Paraglacial dynamics in arctic catchments

Ground-penetrating radar to map peatland subsurface and the impacts of forest-to-bog restoration. / Hughes-Dowdle, L.; Kulessa, B.; Murray, T. et al.
NSG 2024 30th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE), 2024. (30th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Held at the Near Surface Geoscience Conference and Exhibition 2024, NSG 2024).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding (ISBN)

Methane in Svalbard: SvalGaSess. / Hodson, Andy; Kleber, Gabby; Platt, Stephen et al.
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System, 2024. 32 p. (SESS Report 2024).

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

The distinctive weathering crust habitat of a High Arctic glacier comprises discrete microbial micro-habitats. / Rassner, Sara M.E.; Cook, Joseph M.; Mitchell, Andrew C. et al.
In: Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 26, No. 4, e16617, 01.04.2024.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Icescape-scale metabolomics reveals cyanobacterial and topographic control of the core metabolism of the cryoconite ecosystem of an Arctic ice cap. / Gokul, Jarishma; Mur, Luis; Hodson, Andrew J. et al.
In: Environmental Microbiology, Vol. 25, No. 11, 13.11.2023, p. 2549-2563.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Morphology, flow dynamics and evolution of englacial conduits in cold ice. / Kamintzis, Jayne Elizabeth; Irvine-Fynn, Tristram; Holt, Tom et al.
In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol. 48, No. 2, 07.02.2023, p. 415-432.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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