Though the Glaciers and Climate Change Research Cluster is headed by Assoc. Prof. Sean Fitzsimons of the Department of Geography, the research done within the cluster is the result of much collaboration between all the members, several of whom are described below.
Contributors
Assoc. Prof. Sean Fitzsimons
Department of Geography
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Research Cluster Coordinator
Dr. Nicolas Cullen
Department of Geography
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
Studies the mass balance of New Zealand glaciers (in particular the Brewster Glacier) as well as the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro, mainly looking at climatic variables and surface energy balance.
Collaborators
Assoc. Prof. Russell Frew
Department of Chemistry
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Member of the Antarctic Science and Marine Environments of the Southern
Oceans Research Theme, and is a specialist in stable isotope chemistry.
Collaborates on stable isotope analysis of glacier ice from Antarctica.
Prof. Reginald Lorrain and Denis Samyn
Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l'Environnement,
Université Libre de Bruxelles,
Brussells, Belgium.
Collaborate with research on the composition and dynamics of basal
ice in cold-based glaciers.
Prof. Martin Sharp and Joel Barker
Earth & Atmoshperic Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada.
Studies the behaviour of basal ice and glacier landscape interactions in Antarctica and the Arctic.
Assoc. Prof. Gary Wilson
Department of Geology
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand.
Collaborates on the behaviour and grounding of ice shelves.
