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Bryn Hubbard is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a particular focus on atmospheric science, management and policy, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, astronomy and astrophysics, and geophysics. The primary disciplines covered include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics centered largely on cryospheric studies and observations. Other main topics of study include landslides and related hazards; winter sports injuries and performance; climate change and permafrost; Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics; geology and paleoclimatology research; and planetary science and exploration.

Bryn Hubbard's frequent co-authors include Poul Christoffersen, Samuel Doyle, Katie E. Miles, Duncan J. Quincey, and Ann V. Rowan.

They have published regularly in several journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Seismic Properties in a Borehole Drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia" (2020), Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Microstructure and Crystallographic Preferred Orientations of an Azimuthally Oriented Ice Core from a Lateral Shear Margin: Priestley Glacier, Antarctica" (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Controls on Water Storage and Drainage in Crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet" (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • "Continuous borehole optical televiewing reveals variable englacial debris concentrations at Khumbu Glacier, Nepal" (2021), Communications Earth & Environment

Best Publications

  • Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology

    Bryn Hubbard;Neil F. Glasser

  • Geochemical weathering at the bed of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland - a new model

    M. Tranter;M. J. Sharp;H. R. Lamb;G. H. Brown

  • Borehole water-level variations and the structure of the subglacial hydrological system of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Valais, Switzerland

    B. P. Hubbard;M. J. Sharp;I. C. Willis;M. K. Nielsen

  • Possible interactions between bacterial diversity, microbial activity and supraglacial hydrology of cryoconite holes in Svalbard

    Arwyn Edwards;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Sara Maria Edwards Rassner;Birgit Sattler

  • Alpine subglacial hydrology

    Bryn Hubbard;Peter Nienow

  • A review of the use of radio-echo sounding in glaciology:

    Louise A. Plewes;Bryn Hubbard

  • The Antarctic Peninsula Under a 1.5°C Global Warming Scenario

    Martin Siegert;Angus Atkinson;Alison Banwell;Mark Brandon

  • Seawater softening of suture zones inhibits fracture propagation in Antarctic ice shelves.

    Bernd Kulessa;Bernd Kulessa;Adam D. Booth;Martin O’Leary;Daniel McGrath

  • Amplified melt and flow of the Greenland ice sheet driven by late-summer cyclonic rainfall

    Samuel H. Doyle;Alun Hubbard;Roderik S. W. van de Wal;Jason E. Box;Jason E. Box

  • Deformation of Glacial Materials

    Alex J. Maltman;Bryn Hubbard;Michael J. Hambrey

  • Comparison of a three-dimensional model for glacier flow with field data from Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Alun Hubbard;Heinz Blatter;Peter Nienow;Douglas Watson Fraser Mair

  • Seasonal reorganization of subglacial drainage inferred from measurements in boreholes

    Shulamit Gordon;Martin Sharp;Bryn Hubbard;Chris Smart

  • Impact of a rock avalanche on a moraine‐dammed proglacial lake: Laguna Safuna Alta, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

    Bryn Hubbard;Andrew Heald;John M. Reynolds;Duncan Quincey

  • Hydrological controls on patterns of surface, internal and basal motion during three "spring events": Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

    Douglas Mair;Ian Willis;Urs H. Fischer;Bryn Hubbard

  • Water exchange between the subglacial Lake Vostok and the overlying ice sheet

    Martin John Siegert;Ron Kwok;Christopher Mayer;Bryn Hubbard

  • Persistent flow acceleration within the interior of the Greenland ice sheet

    Samuel H. Doyle;Alun Hubbard;Andrew A. W. Fitzpatrick;Dirk van As

  • Basal Ice Facies and Their Formation in the Western Alps

    Bryn Hubbard;Martin Sharp

  • Intense Winter Surface Melt on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

    P. Kuipers Munneke;A. J. Luckman;S. L. Bevan;C. J. P. P. Smeets

  • An inventory and population-scale analysis of martian glacier-like forms

    Colin Souness;Bryn Hubbard;Ralph E. Milliken;Duncan Quincey

  • Structure and changing dynamics of a polythermal valley glacier on a centennial timescale : Midre Lovénbreen, Svalbard

    Michael John Hambrey;Tavi Murray;Neil Franklin Glasser;Alun Lloyd Hubbard

  • Basal ice formation and deformation: a review

    Bryn Hubbard;Martin Sharp

  • Physical Conditions of Fast Glacier Flow: 1. Measurements From Boreholes Drilled to the Bed of Store Glacier, West Greenland

    Samuel H. Doyle;Bryn Hubbard;Poul Christoffersen;Tun J. Young;Tun J. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Bernd Kulessa
Bernd Kulessa Swansea University
Poul Christoffersen
Poul Christoffersen University of Cambridge
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Jean-Louis Tison
Jean-Louis Tison Université Libre de Bruxelles
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp University of Alberta
Peter Nienow
Peter Nienow University of Edinburgh
Frank Pattyn
Frank Pattyn Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ian Willis
Ian Willis University of Cambridge
Paul R. Holland
Paul R. Holland British Antarctic Survey

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