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Overview

Duncan J. Quincey is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. The primary research fields of Quincey include Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on atmospheric science within these broader fields.

Quincey's research extensively covers topics such as cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, winter sports injuries and performance, landslides and related hazards, arctic and antarctic ice dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, and polar research and ecology.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including Jonathan L. Carrivick, Ann V. Rowan, Evan Miles, Mark W. Smith, and Bryn Hubbard.

Key venues where Quincey has published include the Journal of Glaciology, Geomorphology, Frontiers in Earth Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Scientific Reports.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Quincey comprise:

  • Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • A regionally resolved inventory of High Mountain Asia surge-type glaciers, derived from a multi-factor remote sensing approach, 2022, The Cryosphere
  • Proglacial Lakes Control Glacier Geometry and Behavior During Recession, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Structure from Motion Photogrammetry in Physical Geography

    M.W. Smith;J.L. Carrivick;D.J. Quincey

  • Response of debris-covered glaciers in the Mount Everest region to recent warming, and implications for outburst flood hazards

    D I Benn;D I Benn;Tobias Bolch;Tobias Bolch;K Hands;J Gulley;J Gulley

  • Structure from Motion in the Geosciences

    Jonathan L. Carrivick;Mark W. Smith;Duncan J. Quincey

  • Modelling outburst floods from moraine-dammed glacial lakes

    Matthew John Westoby;Neil Franklin Glasser;James Brasington;Michael John Hambrey

  • Manifestations and mechanisms of the Karakoram glacier Anomaly

    Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Walter W. Immerzeel;Remco J. de Kok;Duncan J. Quincey

  • Early recognition of glacial lake hazards in the Himalaya using remote sensing datasets

    D.J. Quincey;S.D. Richardson;A. Luckman;R.M. Lucas

  • Karakoram glacier surge dynamics

    D. J. Quincey;M. Braun;Neil F. Glasser;M. P. Bishop

  • Quantification of Everest-region glacier velocities between 1992 and 2002, using satellite radar interferometry and feature tracking

    D.J. Quincey;A. Luckman;D. Benn

  • Modelling the feedbacks between mass balance, ice flow and debris transport to predict the response to climate change of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalaya

    Ann V. Rowan;David L. Egholm;Duncan J. Quincey;Neil F. Glasser

  • Pervasive Rise of Small-scale Deforestation in Amazonia

    Michelle Kalamandeen;Emanuel Gloor;Edward Mitchard;Duncan J. Quincey

  • The potential of satellite radar interferometry and feature tracking for monitoring flow rates of Himalayan glaciers

    Adrian Luckman;Duncan J. Quincey;Suzanne Bevan

  • Estimating the volume of Alpine glacial lakes

    S. J. Cook;D. J. Quincey

  • Heterogeneity in Karakoram glacier surges

    Duncan Joseph Quincey;Neil Glasser;Simon James Cook;Adrian Luckman

  • Sedimentological, geomorphological and dynamic context of debris-mantled glaciers, Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) region, Nepal

    Michael J. Hambrey;Duncan J. Quincey;Neil F. Glasser;John M. Reynolds

  • Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age

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  • Spatial variability in mass loss of glaciers in the Everest region, central Himalayas, between 2000 and 2015

    Owen King;Duncan J. Quincey;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Ann V. Rowan

  • A decade (2002–2012) of supraglacial lake volume estimates across Russell Glacier, West Greenland

    A. A. W. Fitzpatrick;A. L. Hubbard;J. E. Box;D. J. Quincey

  • Ice velocity and climate variations for Baltoro Glacier, Pakistan

    D.J. Quincey;L. Copland;C. Mayer;M. Bishop

  • The dynamics of supraglacial ponds in the Everest region, central Himalaya

    C. Scott Watson;Duncan J. Quincey;Jonathan L. Carrivick;Mark W. Smith

  • Contrasting geometric and dynamic evolution of lake and land-terminating glaciers in the central Himalaya

    Owen King;Amaury Dehecq;Duncan Quincey;Jonathan Carrivick

  • 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

  • Optical remote sensing techniques in high-mountain environments: application to glacial hazards

    Duncan J. Quincey;Richard M. Lucas;S. D. Richardson;Neil F. Glasser

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan L. Carrivick
Jonathan L. Carrivick University of Leeds
Neil F. Glasser
Neil F. Glasser Aberystwyth University
Evan S. Miles
Evan S. Miles Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Bryn Hubbard
Bryn Hubbard Aberystwyth University
Tristram Irvine-Fynn
Tristram Irvine-Fynn Aberystwyth University
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Tobias Bolch
Tobias Bolch Graz University of Technology
Patrick Wagnon
Patrick Wagnon Grenoble Alpes University
Michael J. Hambrey
Michael J. Hambrey Aberystwyth University

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