Research is focused on investigating marine and terrestrial glacigenic landform records to better understand the history, behaviour, and flow-dynamics of Quaternary ice sheets and glaciers and associated environmental change in the Arctic (Greenland and Svalbard-Barents Sea) and Antarctic. Current work is focused on reconstructing ice sheet history in the Larsen-C region of the Antarctic Peninsula, and the fjords of Northeast Greenland since the last glacial maximum.
Ongoing research is focused on investigating the processes, landforms, and sedimentation at the grounding zone of palaeo-ice streams / ice sheets in Antarctica and using this information to constrain the timing and rates of grounding line recession, and how they relate to key environmental drivers of retreat, during the last deglaciation in the Antarctic Peninsula.
An additional long-term research focus is to examine the large to small-scale patterns and processes of glacial and glacially-influenced sedimentation and landforms associated with subglacial, grounding-line, and glacimarine (fjord, continental margin and deep-ocean) environments. Recent work is focused on examining the glacial processes and sedimentation that occur beneath and adjacent to the Larsen-C Ice Shelf and complements past work on ice shelf sedimentation and Holocene history of ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Recent work is also focused on using remote sensing and airborne-derived datasets and field data to investigate the spatial and temporal characteristics and behaviour of turbid meltwater plumes issuing from land- and marine-terminating glaciers to the ocean around Greenland and Svalbard.
