
Director of Studies in Geography
Fellow of St John's College
University Lecturer in the Scott Polar Research Institute
Email: nsa12 "at" cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/people/arnold/
My research interests focus, in the broadest sense, on glacier hydrology. These interests range from small-scale energy balance variations over valley glaciers, and the routing of the resulting meltwater over the glacier surface and into the subglacial drainage system, to the large-scale variability of ice sheets during the late Quaternary, and the role that glacier hydrology may have played in their dynamics. The main technique I employ in these investigations is the development of numerical models of the processes involved, linked with field work to gather input data for these models, and also to test them.