Dr. Nicholas Barrand

Contact Dr. Nicholas Barrand
+44 (0)1223 221400

British Antarctic Survey

Madingley Road, High Cross

Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB3 0ET United Kingdom

Biography

Research Interests

Glaciology, especially the use of airborne and satellite remote sensing tools, in combination with in situ measurements and numerical models, to understand how and why the Earth's land ice cover is changing and what these changes mean for life on Earth.

My present research is focused on generating estimates of the contribution of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet and outlet glaciers to global sea-level rise. I have previously worked on surging / fast-flowing glaciers in the Karakoram Himalaya, elevation and volume changes of glaciers on Svalbard, the sea-level contribution of glaciers in the Yukon, Canada, and remote-sensing and field validation studies of glacier systems in the Canadian high and sub-Arctic. I maintain an active research interest in the innovative application of airborne and satellite remote-sensing tools (in particular, laser altimetry and stereo-photogrammetry) to glaciological and geomorphological research.

I have led or participated in a total of more than 30 weeks of remote glaciological fieldwork, in the Norwegian high Arctic (Svalbard, x3), the Canadian high-Arctic (Devon ice cap, Nunavut) and sub-Arctic (northern Labrador, x2), the Canadian Rockies and European Alps.

Short CV

May 2010 - Present.     Global Change Analyst, Ice Sheets Programme, British Antarctic Survey (with R.C.A. Hindmarsh)

Nov 2007 - April 2010.  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta (with M.J. Sharp)

Sep 2003 - May 2007.   Ph.D. School of Environment & Society, University of Wales Swansea. Changes in Volume & Extent of NW Svalbard Glaciers Using Airborne Lidar and Digital Photogrammetry (supervisor T. Murray)

Sep 2001 - Sep 2002.   M.Sc. Geographical Information Systems, University of Leeds. Multivariate Controls on the Incidence of Glacier Surging in the Karakoram Himalaya (supervisor T. Murray). Pass with Distinction

Sep 1998 - Sep 2001.   B.Sc. Geography, Newcastle University. First Class Honours