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Richard Hindmarsh


Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Science Programmes, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, GREAT BRITAIN. +44-1223-221495, rcah@bas.ac.uk

and Department of Geography, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, GREAT BRITAIN.


ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-1633-2416, SCOPUS ID 7003485560, NERC Open Research Archive (NORA) ID 772

I was a glaciologist working at BAS, participating in a work-package ISM (Ice-sheet modelling) in the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate Project. I retired in January 2019, and am currently an Emeritus Fellow at BAS and an Honorary Professor at Durham University.

Glaciologists examine the behaviour of ice-sheets, how they flow, how they interact with the atmosphere, ocean and geological substrate. I am an ice-sheet modeller and radioglaciologist. I formulate, analyse and solve equations describing the flow of ice, heat and subglacial sediment and water. Generally solutions need to be obtained numerically, but certain analytical or semi-analytical procedures are also useful. I ran radars in the field and try to understand the implications for ice-flow by using modelling. My guiding aim is to do "ESS glaciology", the glaciology that is required for understanding how ice-sheets have operated in the global system. 

CV Read the about my life and how I became a glaciologist here.

My  bibliography gives a fuller view of my research interests.

Current and recent projects are listed here.

Groups of scientists I have worked with are listed here.

E-mail me on rcah@bas.ac.uk

Over recent years at BAS I have worked on

The following links to published papers illustrate the range of science carried out by me and my collaborators