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Dr Kate Winter

Senior Lecturer

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Senior Lecturer in Extreme Envronments within the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University.

As an applied physical geographer I use ice penetrating radar and remotely sensed imagery to comprehend and characterise the subglacial environment (morphology, geology and hydrology) and flow dynamics of ice streams in Antarctica. I am particularly interested in the topographic controls on ice flow and the entrainment and transportation of sediment through the glacial system.

I am passionate about education and outreach. I develop and teach on various undergraduate modules, focussing on ice, climate, geology and science communication and I supervise research projects at all levels (undergraduate, masters and PhD). I work with the faculty education and outreach team NUSTEM to develop effective outreach initiatives for the wider public. 

Kate Winter

Campus Address

Ellison Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Geochemical evidence for Alberta Oil Sands contamination in sediments remote to known oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, McCerery, B., Esegbue, O., Jones, M., Winter, K., McHale, G., Woodward, J. 3 May 2024, In: Environmental Forensics
  • Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica, Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Callard, S., Napoleoni, F., Ross, N., Jordan, T., Bingham, R. 20 Nov 2023, In: The Cryosphere
  • Oil sands in glacial till as a driver of fast flow and instability in the former Laurentide Ice Sheet: Alberta, Canada, McCerery, R., McHale, G., Woodward, J., Winter, K., Jones, M., Esegbue, O. 1 Dec 2023, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Blue-ice moraines formation in the Heritage Range, West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet history and climate reconstruction, Woodward, J., Hein, A., Winter, K., Westoby, M., Marrero, S., Dunning, S., Lim, M., Rivera, A., Sugden, D. 1 Apr 2022, In: Quaternary Science Advances
  • Publisher Correction: Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate, Livingstone, S., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Mikucki, J., Björnsson, H., Bowling, J., Chu, W., Dow, C., Fricker, H., McMillan, M., Ng, F., Ross, N., Siegert, M., Siegfried, M., Sole, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
  • Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate, Livingstone, S., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Mikucki, J., Björnsson, H., Bowling, J., Chu, W., Dow, C., Fricker, H., McMillan, M., Ng, F., Ross, N., Siegert, M., Siegfried, M., Sole, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
  • Monitoring Icequakes in East Antarctica with the Raspberry Shake, Winter, K., Lombardi, D., Diaz-Moreno, A., Bainbridge, R. 1 Sep 2021, In: Seismological Research Letters
  • Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces: The effect of oil on the water repellence of hydrophobic and superhydrophobic soils, McCerery, R., Woodward, J., McHale, G., Winter, K., Armstrong, S., Orme, B. 1 Mar 2021, In: European Journal of Soil Science
  • Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica, Turney, C., Fogwill, C., Golledge, N., McKay, N., van Sebille, E., Jones, R., Etheridge, D., Rubino, M., Thornton, D., Davies, S., Ramsey, C., Thomas, Z., Bird, M., Munksgaard, N., Kohno, M., Woodward, J., Winter, K., Weyrich, L., Rootes, C., Millman, H., Albert, P., Rivera, A., van Ommen, T., Curran, M., Moy, A., Rahmstorf, S., Kawamura, K., Hillenbrand, C., Weber, M., Manning, C., Young, J., Cooper, A. 25 Feb 2020, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • Subglacial topography and ice flux along the English Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, Winter, K., Hill, E., Gudmundsson, G., Woodward, J. 17 Dec 2020, In: Earth System Science Data

Holly Bartlett Suspended sediment export from the Greenland Ice Sheet Start Date: 11/04/2024

Key involvement with the scientific community:

  • Member of the Sceintific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) AntArchitecture working group: https://www.scar.org/science/antarchitecture/home/
  • Ad-hoc member for the Antarctic Place-names Committee:  https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/
  • Involved in the International Glaciological Society (IGS), where I co-hosted the British Branch Meeting at Northumbria University in 2019
  • Organiser of the Physical and Environmental Sciences Departmental Seminar Series at Northumbria University
  • Reviewer for various academic journals

  • PhD
  • MSc
  • BSc (Hons)


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