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The Welsh Ice Cap Interaction

26 Feb ’13 | Posted by Henry in climate, glaciology, research, Wales| 1 comment

The following Google Earth animation is an ‘optimal’ numerical reconstruction of the Late Devensian Welsh Ice Cap, derived in the publication ‘The last Welsh Ice Cap: Part 1′. Timeslices of the ice-surface velocity begin at 27.8 ka BP and refresh every 200 years. To view properly: Make sure the time slider is zoomed out to [...]

The Greenland Ice Sheet

9 Dec ’11 | Posted by Henry in glaciology, press, research, the web| 0 comments

Off the back of the BBC’s Frozen Planet, Alun Hubbard asked me to create a website detailing the research him and his team are carrying out on the Greenland Ice Sheet. The site is now up on the university webpages at www.aber.ac.uk/greenland and encourage everyone to have a look. As well as presenting the various scientific projects, [...]

Jersey to Scilly

28 Jul ’11 | Posted by Henry in glaciology, photos, research, travel| 0 comments

I joined Gambo for another short voyage, this time from the Channel Islands to the Isles of Scilly. The plan was to carry out some swath bathymetry off the islands looking for any potential glacial features (see figure) before she returned to Aber once more. After waiting around Jersey for favourable winds to help us make [...]

The Welsh Ice Cap

14 Jul ’11 | Posted by Henry in climate, glaciology, modelling, research, video, Wales| 0 comments

During the last glacial maximum ~20 thousand years ago, Britain and Ireland became engulfed by a large and dynamic ice sheet. Wales played an important part, hosting its own semi-independent ice cap with accumulation centres located on Snowdonia, the Cambrian Mountains and the Brecon Beacons. Ice is thought to have covered all summits in Wales, [...]