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Overview

Edward C. King is a researcher affiliated with the British Antarctic Survey in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily concerns earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy and law, geophysics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and ecology.

The primary research topics covered by King include cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, seismic waves and analysis, winter sports injuries and performance, and polar research and ecology.

King has contributed to a variety of scientific publications with recent papers such as:

  • "Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data" (2023, Earth system science data)
  • "Towards Bedmap Himalayas: development of an airborne ice-sounding radar for glacier thickness surveys in High-Mountain Asia" (2020, Annals of Glaciology)
  • "Radar Derived Subglacial Properties and Landforms Beneath Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica" (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface)
  • "The precision of radar-derived subglacial bed topography: a case study from Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica" (2020, Annals of Glaciology)
  • "Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica" (2025, Scientific Data)

Frequent collaborators in research include Andrew M. Smith, Hamish D. Pritchard, Juan Pablo Ferrero, Ainhoa Montoya, and Alice Frémand.

The venues where King has regularly published work are:

  • Bulletin of Latin American Research
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

    Peter Fretwell;Hamish D. Pritchard;David G. Vaughan;J. L. Bamber

  • Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations observed beneath a West Antarctic ice stream

    Edward C. King;Richard C.A. Hindmarsh;C. R. Stokes

  • Bedmap2: improved ice bed, surface and thickness datasets for Antarctica

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  • Size, Shape and Spatial Arrangement of Mega-scale Glacial Lineations from a Large and Diverse Dataset

    Matteo Spagnolo;Chris D. Clark;Jeremy C. Ely;Chris R. Stokes

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

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

  • Widespread low rates of Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment revealed by GPS observations

    Ian D. Thomas;Matt A. King;Michael J. Bentley;Pippa L. Whitehouse

  • The margins of the South Orkney microcontinent

    E. C. King;P. F. Barker

  • Validation of ocean tide models around Antarctica using onshore GPS and gravity data

    Matt A. King;Nigel T. Penna;Peter J. Clarke;Ed C. King

  • Basal crevasses in Larsen C Ice Shelf and implications for their global abundance

    A Luckman;D Jansen;Bernd Kulessa;E. C King

  • Marine ice regulates the future stability of a large Antarctic ice shelf

    Bernd Kulessa;Daniela Jansen;Daniela Jansen;Adrian J. Luckman;Edward C. King

  • An early miocene ridge crest-trench collision on the South Scotia Ridge near 36°W

    Peter F. Barker;Paul L. Barber;Edward C. King

  • Inland thinning of West Antarctic Ice Sheet steered along subglacial rifts

    Robert George Bingham;Fausto Ferraccioli;Edward C. King;Robert D. Larter

  • Location for direct access to subglacial Lake Ellsworth: An assessment of geophysical data and modeling

    John Woodward;Andrew Smith;Neil Ross;Malte Thoma

  • Surface structure and stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    N.F. Glasser;B. Kulessa;A. Luckman;D. Jansen

  • Seismic and radar observations of subglacial bed forms beneath the onset zone of Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica

    Edward C. King;John Woodward;Andy M Smith

  • In‐situquantification of ice rheology and direct measurement of the Raymond Effect at Summit, Greenland using a phase‐sensitive radar

    Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Fabien Gillet-Chaulet;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Hugh F. J. Corr;Edward C. King

  • Scotia arc kinematics from GPS geodesy

    R. Smalley;I.W.D. Dalziel;M. G. Bevis;E. Kendrick

  • Weddell Sea Tectonics And Gondwana Break-up

    B. C. Storey;E. C. King;R. A. Livermore

  • Ice flow direction change in interior west Antarctica

    Martin J. Siegert;Brian Welch;David Morse;Andreas Vieli

  • Subglacial Lake Ellsworth: A candidate for in situ exploration in West Antarctica

    Martin J. Siegert;Richard Hindmarsh;Hugh Corr;Andy Smith

  • Full-depth englacial vertical ice sheet velocities measured using phase-sensitive radar

    Jonathan Kingslake;Richard C. A. Hindmarsh;Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir;Howard Conway

  • Present stability of the Larsen C ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula

    D. Jansen;B. Kulessa;P.R. Sammonds;A. Luckman

  • Ground-penetrating radar measurements of debris thickness on Lirung Glacier, Nepal

    Michael McCarthy;Hamish Pritchard;Ian Willis;Edward King

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith British Antarctic Survey
Richard C. A. Hindmarsh
Richard C. A. Hindmarsh British Antarctic Survey
Hugh F. J. Corr
Hugh F. J. Corr British Antarctic Survey
Matteo Spagnolo
Matteo Spagnolo University of Aberdeen
Bernd Kulessa
Bernd Kulessa Swansea University
Adrian Luckman
Adrian Luckman Swansea University
David G. Vaughan
David G. Vaughan British Antarctic Survey
Martin J. Siegert
Martin J. Siegert University of Exeter
Hamish D. Pritchard
Hamish D. Pritchard British Antarctic Survey
Neil Ross
Neil Ross Newcastle University

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