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Andrew J. Russell is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular attention to several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate change and permafrost

Andrew J. Russell has published several papers in notable academic venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Considerations When Applying Large-Scale PIV and PTV for Determining River Flow Velocity" (2021), published in Frontiers in Water
  • "Controls on jökulhlaup-transported buried ice melt-out at Skeiðarársandur, Iceland: Implications for the evolution of ice-marginal environments" (2020), published in Geomorphology
  • "Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) investigations of a large-scale buried ice-marginal landsystem, Skeiðarársandur, SE Iceland" (2022), published in Boreas
  • "Postimpact Evolution of the Southern Hale Crater Ejecta, Mars" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • "Geophysical reconstruction of the late Holocene proximal proglacial landsystem at Skeiðarársandur, southeast Iceland" (2023), published in Journal of Quaternary Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew J. Russell include:

  • Neil Ross
  • Matthew Perks
  • Andrew R. G. Large
  • Devin Harrison
  • Stuart J. Jones

The scholar's work appears regularly in journals such as Frontiers in Water, Geomorphology, Boreas, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and the Journal of Quaternary Science, reflecting a broad engagement with specialized fields linked to geophysical and environmental processes.

Best Publications

  • Controls on the formation and sudden drainage of glacier-impounded lakes: implications for jökulhlaup characteristics

    Fiona S. Tweed;Andrew J. Russell

  • Technical Note: advances in flash flood monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

    Matthew T. Perks;Andrew J. Russell;Andrew R. G. Large

  • Icelandic jökulhlaup impacts: Implications for ice-sheet hydrology, sediment transfer and geomorphology

    Andrew J. Russell;Matthew J. Roberts;Helen Fay;Philip M. Marren

  • Architectural analysis of a volcaniclastic jökulhlaup deposit, southern Iceland: sedimentary evidence for supercritical flow

    Robert A. Duller;Robert A. Duller;Nigel P. Mountney;Andrew J. Russell;Nigel C. Cassidy

  • Ice fracturing during jökulhlaups: implications for englacial floodwater routing and outlet development

    Matthew J. Roberts;Matthew J. Roberts;Andrew J. Russell;Fiona S. Tweed;Óskar Knudsen

  • An ice-contact rhythmite (turbidite) succession deposited during the November 1996 catastrophic outburst flood (jökulhlaup), Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland

    Andrew J. Russell;Óskar Knudsen

  • Controls on the Sedimentology of the November 1996 Jökulhlaup Deposits, SkeiðaráRsandur, Iceland

    AJ Russell;Ó Knudsen

  • Geomorphological evidence for jökulhlaups from Kverkfjöll volcano, Iceland

    Jonathan L. Carrivick;Andrew J. Russell;Fiona S. Tweed

  • Sedimentology of cold-climate aeolian sandsheet deposits in the Askja region of northeast Iceland

    Nigel P. Mountney;Andrew J. Russell

  • The Effects of Glacier‐Outburst Flood Flow Dynamics on Ice‐Contact Deposits: November 1996 Jökulhlaup, Skeiðarársandur, Iceland

    A. J. Russell;Ó. Knudsen

  • Reconstruction of the largest Holocene jökulhlaup within Jökulsá á Fjöllum, NE Iceland

    Petteri Alho;Andrew J. Russell;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Jukka Käyhkö

  • Aeolian dune-field development in a water table-controlled system: Skeiđarársandur, Southern Iceland

    Nigel P. Mountney;Andrew J. Russell

  • Glaciohydraulic supercooling in Iceland

    Matthew J. Roberts;Fiona S. Tweed;Andrew J. Russell;Óskar Knudsen

  • Morphology and sedimentology of a giant supraglacial, ice-walled, jökulhlaup channel, Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland: implications for esker genesis

    AJ Russell;Ó Knudsen;H Fay;PM Marren

  • Possible Juventae Chasma subice volcanic eruptions and Maja Valles ice outburst floods on Mars: Implications of Mars Global Surveyor crater densities, geomorphology, and topography

    Mary G. Chapman;Magnús T. Gudmundsson;Andrew J. Russell;Trent M. Hare

  • Proglacial fluvial sedimentary sequences in Greenland and Iceland: a case study from active proglacial environments subject to jökulhlaups

    AJ Russell;PM Marren

  • Controls on the sedimentary architecture of a single event englacial esker: Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland

    Matthew John Burke;John Woodward;Andrew J. Russell;P. Jay Fleisher

  • A multi-dimensional analysis of pro-glacial landscape change at Sólheimajökull, southern Iceland

    Kate E. H. Staines;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Fiona S. Tweed;Andrew J. Evans

  • A new cycle of jökulhlaups at Russell Glacier, Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland

    Andrew J. Russell;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen;Jacob C. Yde

  • Iceland: modern processes and past environments

    CJ Caseldine;AJ Russell;Ó Knudsen;J Harðardóttir

  • Coastal aeolian dune development, Sólheimasandur, southern Iceland

    Nigel P. Mountney;Andrew J. Russell

  • Hydrology, hydraulics, and geomorphology of the Bonneville Flood

    Andrew J. Russell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan L. Carrivick
Jonathan L. Carrivick University of Leeds
Neil Ross
Neil Ross Newcastle University
Nigel P. Mountney
Nigel P. Mountney University of Leeds
Jeff Warburton
Jeff Warburton Durham University
Bernd Etzelmüller
Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo
Petteri Alho
Petteri Alho University of Turku
Matthew R. Balme
Matthew R. Balme The Open University
Emrys Phillips
Emrys Phillips Queen Mary University of London
R. S. W. van de Wal
R. S. W. van de Wal Utrecht University
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera University of Chile

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