Prof Hilmar Gudmundsson

I’m interested in the processes controlling the flow of glaciers and ice sheets. I’m fascinated by how complex the behaviour of large ice masses can be, how glaciers respond to external changes in the environment, and how they in turn affect the environment around them.

I’m a physicist by background and my research takes a combined observational, numerical and theoretical approach to understand the processes governing the behaviour of glaciers.

I'm currently involved with several large NSF, NERC and EU reserach projects: 

• TPACCs: Tipping Point in the Antarctic Climate Components
• Protect: Projecting Sea-Level Rise: From Ice Sheets to Local Implications
•  PROPHET: PROcesses, drivers, Prediction: modeling the History and Evolution of Thwaites, as a part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration project.
• OCEAN:ICE  Ocean-Cryospheric Exchanges in ANarctica: Impacts on Climate and the Earth System. 

   

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• Activation of existing surface crevasses has limited impact on grounding line flux of Antarctic Ice Streams, Gerli, C., Rosier, S., Gudmundsson, H. 27 Feb 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters
• Incorporating Horizontal Density Variations into Large‐scale Modelling of Ice Masses, Schelpe, C., Gudmundsson, G. 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
• Predicting ocean-induced ice-shelf melt rates using deep learning, Rosier, S., Bull, C., Woo, W., Gudmundsson, G. 7 Feb 2023, In: The Cryosphere
• Slowdown of Shirase Glacier, East Antarctica, caused by strengthening alongshore winds, Miles, B., Stokes, C., Jenkins, A., Jordan, J., Jamieson, S., Gudmundsson, G. 1 Feb 2023, In: The Cryosphere
• High spatial and temporal variability in Antarctic ice discharge linked to ice shelf buttressing and bed geometry, Miles, B., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Jordan, J., Gudmundsson, G., Jenkins, A. 29 Jun 2022, In: Scientific Reports
• On the validity of the stress-flow angle as a metric for ice-shelf stability, Mitcham, T., Gudmundsson, H. Oct 2022, In: Journal of Glaciology
• The instantaneous impact of calving and thinning on the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Mitcham, T., Gudmundsson, G., Bamber, J. 11 Mar 2022, In: The Cryosphere
• The predictive power of ice sheet models and the regional sensitivity of ice loss to basal sliding parameterisations: a case study of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, West Antarctica, Barnes, J., Gudmundsson, G. 13 Oct 2022, In: The Cryosphere
• The sensitivity of Cook Glacier, East Antarctica, to changes in ice-shelf extent and grounding-line position, Jordan, J., Gudmundsson, H., Jenkins, A., Stokes, C., Miles, B., Jamieson, S. 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Glaciology

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• NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: A new mechanistic framework for modeling rift processes in Antarctic ice shelves validated through improved strain-rate and seismic observations, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 11/01/21 - 10/01/24, 0.00
• Ocean Forcing of Ice Sheet Evolution Beyond West Antarctica, Jenkins, A. (Principal Investigator), Gudmundsson, H. (Co Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/10/20 - 30/09/24, £657,760.00
• PROTECT, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), European Commission, 01/09/20 - 31/08/24, 0.00
• Tipping Points in Antarctic Climate Components (TiPACCs), Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), European Commission, 01/08/19 - 31/05/23, £742,029.00
• Newton Fund: PhD Placement programme between the United Kingdom and China - Teng Li, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), British Council, 01/04/19 - 31/03/20, 0.00
• NSFPLR-NERC: Processes, drivers, predictions: Modeling the response of Thwaites Glacier over the next century using, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/12/18 - 30/11/23, £774,574.00
• Assessing the sensitivity of major East Antarctic outlet glaciers to recent and future changes in the ocean-climate system, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/03/18 - 28/02/21, £380,061.00
• Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf system, Antarctica, Gudmundsson, H. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 05/02/18 - 31/03/20, £330,637.00

• Cristina Gerli Antarctic Ice Shelf crevasses, damage and deformation - a numerical modelling study Start Date: 19/10/2021
• Natasha Lee The Effect of Climate Change on Icelandic Ice Caps and Glaciers. Start Date: 01/10/2020

Environmental Studies/Science Other Qualification April 20 2004

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