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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

David E. Sugden is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on Atmospheric Science within these fields. The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Regional resilience and development

Among the publication venues where David E. Sugden has contributed are:

  • Scottish Geographical Journal (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Science Advances
  • Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Journal of Quaternary Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist include:

  • The extreme yet transient nature of glacial erosion, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Blue-ice moraines formation in the Heritage Range, West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet history and climate reconstruction, 2022, Quaternary Science Advances
  • Antarctic blue-ice moraines: Analogue for Northern Hemisphere ice sheets?, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • On the thickness of the Antarctic ice, and its relations to that of the glacial epoch, 2021, Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • West Antarctic ice sheet and CO2 greenhouse effect: a threat of disaster, 2020, Scottish Geographical Journal

Frequent collaborators in these publications include:

  • Adrian M. Hall
  • Henry Patton
  • Alun Hubbard
  • Jakob Heyman
  • Nikolitsa Alexandropoulou

David E. Sugden was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Glaciers and landscape

    David E. Sugden;Brian Stephen. John

  • Climatic inferences from glacial and palaeoecological evidence at the last glacial termination, southern South America

    Robert McCulloch;Michael J Bentley;Ross S Purves;Nicholas R J Hulton

  • The Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in southern South America

    Nicholas R J Hulton;Ross Purves;Robert McCulloch;David E Sugden

  • Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

    John O. Stone;Gregory A. Balco;David E. Sugden;Marc W. Caffee

  • Glacial Erosion by the Laurentide Ice Sheet

    D. E. Sugden

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to Pliocene climatic change from a Dry Valleys perspective

    George H. Denton;David E. Sugden;David R. Marchant;David R. Marchant;Brenda L. Hall

  • Preservation of Miocene glacier ice in East Antarctica

    David E. Sugden;David R. Marchant;Noel Potter;Roland A. Souchez

  • Formation of patterned ground and sublimation till over Miocene glacier ice in Beacon Valley, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

    David D.R. Marchant;Adam R. Lewis;William M. Phillips;E. J. Moore

  • Reconstruction of the Morphology, Dynamics, and Thermal Characteristics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet at its Maximum

    D. E. Sugden

  • Dynamic cycles, ice streams and their impact on the extent, chronology and deglaciation of the British-Irish ice sheet

    Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Tom Bradwell;Nicholas Golledge;Adrian Hall

  • Holocene glacier fluctuations in South America and Antarctica

    Chalmers M. Clapperton;David E. Sugden

  • The Patagonian Icefields: A Glaciological Review

    Charles R. Warren;David E. Sugden

  • Glaciers and Landscape: A Geomorphological Approach

    David E. Sugden;Brian Stephen John

  • CHRONOLOGY OF THE LAST GLACIATION IN CENTRAL STRAIT OF MAGELLAN AND BAHÍA INÚTIL, SOUTHERNMOST SOUTH AMERICA

    Robert McCulloch;Chris Fogwill;David E Sugden;Michael J Bentley

  • The Gamburtsev mountains and the origin and early evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

    Sun Bo;Martin J. Siegert;Simon M. Mudd;David Sugden

  • Influence of Patagonian glaciers on Antarctic dust deposition during the last glacial period

    David E. Sugden;Robert D. McCulloch;Aloys J.-M. Bory;Aloys J.-M. Bory;Andrew S. Hein

  • The Last Glaciation in central Magellan-Strait, southernmost Chile

    Chalmers M. Clapperton;David E. Sugden;Darrell S. Kaufman;Robert D. McCulloch;Robert D. McCulloch

  • A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

    Duncan A. Young;Andrew P. Wright;Jason L. Roberts;Jason L. Roberts;Roland C. Warner;Roland C. Warner

  • Cenozoic landscape evolution of the Convoy Range to Mackay Glacier area, Transantarctic Mountains: Onshore to offshore synthesis

    David Sugden;George Denton

  • Late Holocene Deglaciation of Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

    J. O. Stone;G. Balco;D. E. Sugden;M. Caffee

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Bentley
Michael J. Bentley Durham University
Christopher J. Fogwill
Christopher J. Fogwill Cranfield University
Andrew S. Hein
Andrew S. Hein University of Edinburgh
George H. Denton
George H. Denton University of Maine
David R. Marchant
David R. Marchant Boston University
Chalmers M. Clapperton
Chalmers M. Clapperton University of Aberdeen
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Stewart S. R. Jamieson
Stewart S. R. Jamieson Durham University
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Ross S. Purves
Ross S. Purves University of Zurich

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