
Niall Gandy
- Email: eeng@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Collapse of the British-Irish Ice Sheet: the role of climate and sea-level changes
- Supervisors: Dr Lauren Gregoire, Professor David Hodgson, Professor Chris Clark, Professor Emrys Phillips
Profile
I am a Palaeo-Glaciologist, with a focus on the British-Irish Ice Sheet. I completed my undergraduate degree at the University of Sheffield and remained for an MSc in Polar and Alpine Change. My MSc dissertation mapped glacial landforms in the Firth of Forth, and suggested the ice dynamics of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in the area. I began my PhD in October 2016, using the BISICLES model to help understand the dynamics of the collapse of the British-Irish Ice Sheet.
Twitter: @NiallGandy
Publications
Gandy, N., Gregoire, L. J., Ely, J. C., Cornford, S. L., Clark, C. D., and Hodgson, D. M. Exploring the ingredients required to successfully model the placement, generation, and evolution of ice streams in the British-Irish Ice Sheet, Quaternary Science Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105915
Ely, J. C., Clark, C. D., Hindmarsh, R. C., Hughes, A. L., Greenwood, S. L., Bradley, S. L., Gasson, E. , Gregoire, L. , Gandy, N. , Stokes, C. R. and Small, D. (2019), Recent progress on combining geomorphological and geochronological data with ice sheet modelling, demonstrated using the last British–Irish Ice Sheet. J. Quaternary Sci.. doi:10.1002/jqs.3098
Gandy, N., Gregoire, L. J., Ely, J. C., Clark, C. D., Hodgson, D. M., Lee, V., Bradwell, T., and Ivanovic, R. F. Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland, The Cryosphere, 12, 3635–3651, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3635-2018, 2018.
Qualifications
- PhD, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
- MSc Polar and Alpine Change, University of Sheffield
- BSc Geography, University of Sheffield
Research groups and institutes
- Palaeo@Leeds
- Earth Surface Science Institute
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science