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Tristram Irvine-Fynn

Tristram Irvine-Fynn

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Earth Science

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38
Citations
4431
World Ranking
6614
National Ranking
686

Overview

Tristram Irvine-Fynn is a researcher affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with contributions spanning Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Molecular Biology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research centers on cryospheric studies and observations, polar research and ecology, climate change and permafrost, microbial community ecology and physiology, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, and arctic and antarctic ice dynamics.

They have published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, The Cryosphere, Environmental Microbiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Irvine-Fynn include the following:

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo (2020), published in The Cryosphere
  • Seasonally stable temperature gradients through supraglacial debris in the Everest region of Nepal, Central Himalaya (2020), published in Journal of Glaciology

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Joseph M. Cook, Andy Hodson, Arwyn Edwards, Christopher J. Williamson, and Andrew Tedstone.

Best Publications

  • Increased Runoff from Melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet: A Response to Global Warming

    Edward Hanna;Philippe Huybrechts;Konrad Steffen;John Cappelen

  • Cryoconite: The dark biological secret of the cryosphere

    Joseph Cook;Arwyn Edwards;Nozomu Takeuchi;Tristram Irvine-Fynn

  • POLYTHERMAL GLACIER HYDROLOGY: A REVIEW

    Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn;Andrew J. Hodson;Brian J. Moorman;Geir Vatne

  • A glacier respires: Quantifying the distribution and respiration CO2 flux of cryoconite across an entire Arctic supraglacial ecosystem

    Andy Hodson;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Felix Ng;Rory Watson

  • The structure, biological activity and biogeochemistry of cryoconite aggregates upon an Arctic valley glacier: Longyearbreen, Svalbard

    Andy Hodson;Karen Cameron;Carl Bøggild;Tristram Irvine-Fynn

  • Nitrogen fixation on Arctic glaciers, Svalbard

    Jon Telling;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Martyn Tranter;Tristram Irvine-fynn

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet

    Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Andrew J. Tedstone;Christopher Williamson;Jenine McCutcheon

  • Dark zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet controlled by distributed biologically-active impurities.

    Jonathan C. Ryan;Jonathan C. Ryan;Jonathan C. Ryan;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Alun Lloyd Hubbard;Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Tristam D. Irvine-Fynn

  • Seasonal changes in ground-penetrating radar signature observed at a polythermal glacier, Bylot Island, Canada

    T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn;B. J. Moorman;J. L. M. Williams;F. S. A. Walter

  • A metagenomic snapshot of taxonomic and functional diversity in an alpine glacier cryoconite ecosystem

    Arwyn Edwards;Justin Alexander Pachebat;Martin Thomas Swain;Matthew John Hegarty

  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Christopher J. Williamson;Joseph Cook;Andrew Tedstone;Marian Yallop

  • Taxon interactions control the distributions of cryoconite bacteria colonizing a High Arctic ice cap

    Jarishma K. Gokul;Andrew J. Hodson;Andrew J. Hodson;Eli R. Saetnan;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn

  • Microbial cell budgets of an Arctic glacier surface quantified using flow cytometry

    T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn;A. Edwards;S. Newton;H. Langford

  • Quantifying bioalbedo: a new physically based model and discussion of empirical methods for characterising biological influence on ice and snow albedo

    Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Andrew J. Hodson;Andrew J. Hodson;Alex S. Gardner;Mark Flanner

  • Hydrology of debris-covered glaciers in High Mountain Asia

    Katie E. Miles;Bryn Hubbard;Tristram D.L. Irvine-Fynn;Evan S. Miles

  • Contrasts between the cryoconite and ice-marginal bacterial communities of Svalbard glaciers

    Arwyn Edwards;Sara Maria Rassner;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Hilary Jane Worgan

  • Controls on the autochthonous production and respiration of organic matter in cryoconite holes on high Arctic glaciers

    Jon Telling;Alexandre Magno Anesio;Martyn Tranter;Marek Stibal

  • Recent High-Arctic glacial sediment redistribution: A process perspective using airborne lidar

    T.D.L. Irvine-Fynn;N.E. Barrand;P.R. Porter;A.J. Hodson

  • Microbial abundance in surface ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Marek Stibal;Erkin Gözdereliler;Erkin Gözdereliler;Karen A. Cameron;Karen A. Cameron;Jason E. Box

  • Algal growth and weathering crust state drive variability in western Greenland Ice Sheet ice albedo

    Andrew J. Tedstone;Andrew J. Tedstone;Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Christopher J. Williamson;Stefan Hofer

  • Supraglacial weathering crust dynamics inferred from cryoconite hole hydrology

    Joseph Mitchell Cook;Andy J. Hodson;Andy J. Hodson;Tristram D. L. Irvine-Fynn

  • Temporal variations in supraglacial debris distribution on Baltoro Glacier, Karakoram between 2001 and 2012

    Morgan Gibson;Neil Glasser;Duncan Joseph Quincey;Christopher Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Hodson
Andy Hodson University Centre in Svalbard
Duncan J. Quincey
Duncan J. Quincey University of Leeds
Alun Hubbard
Alun Hubbard University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Alexandre M. Anesio
Alexandre M. Anesio Aarhus University
Marek Stibal
Marek Stibal Charles University
Neil F. Glasser
Neil F. Glasser Aberystwyth University
Martyn Tranter
Martyn Tranter Aarhus University
Jon Telling
Jon Telling Newcastle University
Jason E. Box
Jason E. Box Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Nozomu Takeuchi
Nozomu Takeuchi Chiba University

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