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PhD update: January 2016

PhD update: further work on calving behaviour, what's next for this work, and beginning a month in Svalbard This month I continued with the work concerning ...

Confessions of a glaciology PhD student

Amusing excerpts from the diary of second-year glaciology PhD student I have come to the end of the second year of my PhD this January. It's been a great ye...

PhD new year resolutions

1. Write more This encompasses a whole load of things including writing up findings, reading and summarising articles, blogging more, and generally document...

PhD update: December 2015

Examining calving behaviours at two glaciers in Svalbard Kronebreen and Tunabreen are two tidewater glaciers in Svalbard that exhibit very different calving ...

PhD update: November 2015

Bed water pressures correspond to surface lake drainage events at Kronebreen November has well and truly been office-based apart from a trip to Aberdeen for...