Prof Neil Glasser

Research Interests

• Glaciology and glacial geomorphology, particularly in the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas and Patagonia.
• debris covered glaciers

DGES Projects

• Glacial history of the NE Antarctic Peninsula region over centennial to millennial timescales
• MAGIC-DML: MAGIC-DML is a new Swedish-UK-US-Norwegian-German project that will look at past vertical ice thicknesses in the Dronning Maud Land (DML) area of Antarctica.

MAGIC-DML stands for Mapping/Measuring/Modelling Antarctic Geomorphology and Ice-elevation Change in Dronning Maud Land (DML). We have assembled a major international team who will travel to Dronning Maud Land in 2015/16 to undertake fieldwork, with full logistical support from the Swedish Polar Secretariat.

You can follow the expedition plans and progress on Twitter: @MAGICDML and on Facebook

Neil Glasser joined Aberystwyth University in April 1999 as a Lecturer in Physical Geography and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2004 and Professor in 2006. In 2006-2007 he was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. He has twice been a member of the NERC Peer Review College (2005-2008 and 2011-present) and was a member of the Steering Committee for the NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility (2007-2013). Neil also serves as an editor of the Journal of Glaciology.

Recent research papers include contributions on using glacial erosional landforms to reconstruct former ice sheets, the role of structural glaciology in debris entrainment, deposition and landform development, the response of debris-covered glaciers to climate change and the long-term glacial history of Antarctica . He is currently working on large data sets concerned with Quaternary glaciations in southern South America, the response of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves to climate change and Himalayan glacial lake outburst floods.  

He is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences and he holds AU Executive-level responsibility for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Sustainability. 

News

• Antarctic Peninsula glacier recession ‘unprecedented’
• The Cairngorm glacier controversy: where now?
• Glaciers in Chile 'melt at fastest rate in 350 years'
• Welsh boffins make history in Antarctic'

Blogs:

• DISCOVER GLACIERS PROJECT

Glaciology and glacial geomorphology, particularly in the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas and Patagonia

AU Executive-level responsibility for:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Sustainability