Dr Emily Hill

Research Fellow

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

My research interests centre upon undertanding how glaciers and ice sheets respond to climate change. This includes using satellite imagery and numerical ice flow models to record how glaciers have responded to past change, and how they may respond to future changes in the atmosphere and surrounding oceans. I am also interesting in using statistical methods to estimate uncertainties in projections of future sea level rise.

At present, I am working on the TiPACCs project (Tipping Points in Antarctic Climate Components), which investigates the possibility of sudden and large changes in Antarctic climate components. During this project I will use an ice flow model to assess the stability of the grounding lines of the Antarctica, and the existence of tipping points.

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Key Publications

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Review article: The Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica, Ross, N., Sanderson, R., Kulessa, B., Siegert, M., Paxman, G., Nichols, K., Siegfried, M., Jamieson, S., Bentley, M., Jordan, T., Batchelor, C., Small, D., Eisen, O., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, S., Carr, R., Dow, C., Fricker, H., Hill, E., Hills, B., Hofstede, C., Jeofry, H., Napoleoni, F., Sauthoff, W. 1 Jul 2026, In: Cryosphere
Review Article: The Foundation-Patuxent-Academy ice stream system, Antarctica, Ross, N., Sanderson, R., Kulessa, B., Siegert, M., Paxman, G., Nichols, K., Siegfried, M., Jamieson, S., Bentley, M., Jordan, T., Batchelor, C., Small, D., Eisen, O., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, S., Carr, R., Dow, C., Fricker, H., Hill, E., Hills, B., Hofstede, C., Jeofry, H., Napoleoni, F., Sauthoff, W. 26 Jul 2025
Ocean warming as a trigger for irreversible retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet, Hill, E., Gudmundsson, G., Chandler, D. 1 Nov 2024, In: Nature Climate Change
Sensitivity to forecast surface mass balance outweighs sensitivity to basal sliding descriptions for 21st century mass loss from three major Greenland outlet glaciers, Carr, J., Hill, E., Gudmundsson, G. 14 Jun 2024, In: The Cryosphere
The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 1: No indication of marine ice sheet instability in the current geometry, Hill, E., Urruty, B., Reese, R., Garbe, J., Gagliardini, O., Durand, G., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gudmundsson, G., Winkelmann, R., Chekki, M., Chandler, D., Langebroek, P. 7 Sep 2023, In: The Cryosphere
The stability of present-day Antarctic grounding lines – Part 2: Onset of irreversible retreat of Amundsen Sea glaciers under current climate on centennial timescales cannot be excluded, Reese, R., Garbe, J., Hill, E., Urruty, B., Naughten, K., Gagliardini, O., Durand, G., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gudmundsson, G., Chandler, D., Langebroek, P., Winkelmann, R. 7 Sep 2023, In: The Cryosphere
TermPicks: a century of Greenland glacier terminus data for use in scientific and machine learning applications, Goliber, S., Black, T., Catania, G., Lea, J., Olsen, H., Cheng, D., Bevan, S., Bjørk, A., Bunce, C., Brough, S., Carr, J., Cowton, T., Gardner, A., Fahrner, D., Hill, E., Joughin, I., Korsgaard, N., Luckman, A., Moon, T., Murray, T., Sole, A., Wood, M., Zhang, E. 12 Aug 2022, In: The Cryosphere
Quantifying the potential future contribution to global mean sea level from the Filchner–Ronne basin, Antarctica, Hill, E., Rosier, S., Gudmundsson, H., Collins, M. 6 Oct 2021, In: The Cryosphere
Twenty-first century response of Petermann Glacier, northwest Greenland to ice shelf loss, Hill, E., Gudmundsson, H., Carr, J., Stokes, C., King, H. 1 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Glaciology
Subglacial topography and ice flux along the English Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Winter, K., Hill, E., Gudmundsson, G., Woodward, J. 17 Dec 2020, In: Earth System Science Data