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.

Campus Address

Ellison Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 24 Jan 2025, In: The Cryosphere
Dated radar-stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica: old ice potential and ice sheet history, Sanderson, R., Ross, N., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, S., Jordan, T., Young, D. 18 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Glaciology
Detecting Holocene retreat and readvance in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica: assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 23 May 2024
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

Current and Recent Projects

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Chemistry and biology under low hydrolic conditions beneath the Greeenland Ice sheet, revealed through naturally emerging overwinter conditions, Graly, J. (Principal Investigator), Winter, K. (Co Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/09/21 - 31/08/24, £304,886.00

PGR Supervision

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

Further Information

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

Qualifications

PhD
MSc
BSc (Hons)

Links

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