Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
My research investigates how glaciers and ice sheets behave in order to understand how they will contribute to sea level and impact water resources in our warming world. The following areas have been a particular focus of my research: i) Coupling between glacier hydrology and ice dynamics; ii) Ice-ocean interactions at marine-terminating glaciers; iii) Temporal evolution of glacial drainage systems; iv) Glacier erosion and sediment evacuation from subglacial drainage systems; and v) Satellite investigations of glacier and ice-cap mass balance. My research has been supported by sustained field-based investigations in Greenland, the Canadian High Arctic and European Alps. I was awarded the Polar Medal by the Queen in 2018 in recognition of my research activities in the Arctic.
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Modelling ocean melt of ice mélange at Greenland's marine-terminating glaciers
Jain, L., Slater, D. & Nienow, P., 18 Dec 2025, In: The Cryosphere (TC). 19, 12, p. 6865–6886Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi‐Year Ice Dynamics at Køge Bugt Central Glacier Controlled by Bed Topography
Picton, H. J. & Nienow, P. W., 28 Oct 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 20, e2025GL116829.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Growth, physiology, and metabolism of Halomonas meridiana in aqueous ammonium sulfate with implications for icy moon astrobiology
Hopton, C. M., Nienow, P. & Cockell, C. S., 19 Sept 2025, In: Frontiers in Microbiology. 16Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Outburst of a subglacial flood from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Bowling, J. S., McMillan, M., Leeson, A. A., Livingstone, S. J., Sole, A. J., Ng, F. S. L., Karlsson, N. B., Nienow, P., Boxall, K., Noël, B., van den Broeke, M. R., Slater, T., Maddalena, J., Sandberg Sørensen, L., Simonsen, S. B., Mouginot, J., Millan, R., Melling, L., Taylor, L. & Humbert, A., 1 Aug 2025, In: Nature Geoscience. 18, p. 740-746Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ammonia sets limit to life and alters physiology independently of pH in Halomonas meridiana
Hopton, C. M., Nienow, P. & Cockell, C. S., 4 Jun 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., 19549.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
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Investigating the potential for catastrophic collapse of Greenland's 'land'-terminating glacier margins
Nienow, P. (Principal Investigator), Medina-Lopez, E. (Co-investigator), Gourmelen, N. (Co-investigator) & Goldberg, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/24 → 31/03/27
Project: Research
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Investigating the potential for catastrophic collapse of Greenland's 'land'-terminating glacier margins
Nienow, P. (Principal Investigator), Goldberg, D. (Co-investigator), Gourmelen, N. (Co-investigator) & Medina-Lopez, E. (Co-investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/09/23 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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CASCADA - Toxin or Treat?
Nienow, P. (Principal Investigator) & Hein, A. (Co-investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/02/19 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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CASCADA - Toxin or Treat?
Nienow, P. (Principal Investigator) & Hein, A. (Co-investigator)
1/02/19 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Investigating controls on flow variability in Greenland's tidewater glaciers: the impact of runoff on fjord circulation and termini melt rates
Nienow, P. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/13 → 31/08/16
Project: Research
Datasets
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Proglacial discharge measurements, Leverett Glacier, south-west Greenland (2009-2012)
Tedstone, A. J. (Creator), Nienow, P. (Creator), Chandler, D. (Creator), Cowton, T. (Creator), Mair, D. (Creator), Sole, A. (Creator) & Wadham, J. L. (Creator), NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre, 2017
DOI: 10.5285/17c400f1-ed6d-4d5a-a51f-aad9ee61ce3d, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00840
Dataset
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Dataset for "Review article: Earth's ice imbalance"
Slater, T. (Creator), Lawrence, I. (Creator), Otosaka, I. (Creator), Shepherd, A. (Creator), Gourmelen, N. (Creator), Jakob, L. (Creator), Tepes, P. (Creator), Gilbert, L. (Creator) & Nienow, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 6 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7612514, https://zenodo.org/records/7612514
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Accelerating ice mass loss across Arctic Russia in response to Atlantification of the Eurasian Arctic Shelf Seas
Tepes, P. (Creator), Nienow, P. (Creator) & Gourmelen, N. (Creator), Zenodo, 5 Jan 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4419925, https://zenodo.org/record/4419925
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Frontal ablation estimates for 49 tidewater glaciers in Greenland
Fahrner, D. (Creator), Slater, D. (Creator), Sutherland, D. (Creator), Enderlin, E. (Creator), Nienow, P. (Creator) & Wagner, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 10 Feb 2025
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14842441, http://10.5281/zenodo.8414729
Dataset
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Particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration in meltwater runoff of Leverett Glacier, Russell Glacier, and Isunnguata Sermia, southwest Greenland (2009-2018)
Lamarche-Gagnon, G. (Creator), Kohler, T. (Contributor), Lawson, E. (Creator), Hawkings, J. R. (Contributor), Stibal, M. (Creator), Wadham, J. L. (Contributor), Lamarche-Gagnon, G. (Contributor), Kohler, T. (Contributor), Lawson, E. (Contributor), Hawkings, J. R. (Contributor), Wadham, J. L. (Contributor), Stibal, M. (Contributor), Nienow, P. (Contributor), Sgouridis, F. (Contributor), Dyson, R. (Contributor), Kellerman, A. M. (Contributor), Cameron, K. (Contributor), Holt, A. D. (Contributor), Vinšová, P. (Contributor), Hofer, S. (Contributor), Bulínová, M. (Contributor), Butler, C. (Contributor) & Žárský, J. D. (Contributor), Zenodo, 14 Nov 2022
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7382723, https://zenodo.org/record/7319161 and one more link, https://zenodo.org/records/7382723 (show fewer)
Dataset
Press/Media
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Greenland Ice Sheet motion minimally impacted by late-season melting, study finds
Ing, R., Nienow, P. & Tedstone, A.
17/03/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Global ice loss accelerating at record rate, study finds
25/01/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Earth has lost 28 TRILLION TONNES of ice in less than 30 years, scientists say after analysing satellite imagery of the planet's poles, mountains and glaciers
23/08/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Tom Cowton studies the speed at which glaciers erode rock
22/03/12
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Prof Peter Nienow in Geosciences warns of rising sea levels due to ice melt in Greenland
23/11/13
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research