Jonathan Kingslake
BAS Honorary Fellow
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Jonathan Kingslake
BAS Honorary Fellow
Biography
Jonny went to York University as an undergraduate, earning a BSc in physics in 2009. He then completed a PhD in Glaciology at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Dr Felix Ng in 2013. His PhD work was on mathematical modelling of ice-dammed lake drainage. He then spent three years as a postdoctoral glacier geophysicist at BAS under the supervision of Richard Hindmarsh. He took part in two field seasons in the Weddell Sea Sector using radar to understand the past and present flow of the ice sheet. Since 2016 he has been an Assistant and then Associate Professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of Columbia University, USA. His research covers the history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, firn compaction, glacial hydrology, ice-sheet dynamics, and other topics. Ongoing collaborations with BAS colleagues include projects on Flask Glacier (project webpage: https://ldeo-glaciology.github.io/AntPen_NSF_NERC/), Antarctic Peninsula and Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica (project website: https://thwaitesglacier.org/projects/ghost). Jonny will be taking up a position as an Associate Professor at Imperial College London in June 2026.
Research interests
Collaborations
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2017
Kingslake, J., Ng, F., Sole, A.. (2017) Modelling channelized surface drainage of supraglacial lakes. Journal of Glaciology, 61 (). pp. 10.3189/2015JoG14J158
2016
Kingslake, Jonathan, Martin, Carlos ORCID record for Carlos Martin, Arthern, Robert J. ORCID record for Robert J. Arthern, Corr, Hugh F.J., King, Edward C. ORCID record for Edward C. King. (2016) Ice-flow reorganization in West Antarctica 2.5 kyr ago dated using radar-derived englacial flow velocities. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (). pp. doi:10.1002/2016GL070278
2015
Matsuoka, Kenichi, Hindmarsh, Richard C.A. ORCID record for Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Moholdt, Geir, Bentley, Michael J., Pritchard, Hamish D. ORCID record for Hamish D. Pritchard, Brown, Joel, Conway, Howard, Drews, Reinhard, Durand, Gael, Goldberg, Daniel, Hatterman, Tore, Kingslake, Jonathan, Lenaerts, Jan T.M., Martin, Carlos ORCID record for Carlos Martin, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Nicholls, Keith ORCID record for Keith Nicholls, Pattyn, Frank, Ross, Neil, Scambos, Ted, Whitehouse, Pippa L.. (2015) Antarctic ice rises and rumples: their properties and significance for ice-sheet dynamics and evolution. Earth Science Reviews, 150 (). pp. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.09.004
Evatt, Geoffrey W., Abrahams, David, Heil, Matthias, Mayer, Christoph, Kingslake, Jonathan, Mitchell, Sarah L., Fowler, Andrew C., Clark, Christopher D.. (2015) Glacial melt under a porous debris layer. Journal of Glaciology, 61 (). pp. 10.3189/2015JoG14J235
Kingslake, J.. (2015) Chaotic dynamics of a glaciohydraulic model. Journal of Glaciology, 61 (). pp. doi:10.3189/2015JoG14J208
2014
Kingslake, Jonathan, Hindmarsh, Richard C.A. ORCID record for Richard C.A. Hindmarsh, Aðalgeirsdóttir, Guðfinna, Conway, Howard, Corr, Hugh F.J., Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Martin, Carlos ORCID record for Carlos Martin, King, Edward C. ORCID record for Edward C. King, Mulvaney, Robert ORCID record for Robert Mulvaney, Pritchard, Hamish D. ORCID record for Hamish D. Pritchard. (2014) Full-depth englacial vertical ice-sheet velocities measured using phase-sensitive radar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 119 (). pp. doi:10.1002/2014JF003275
2013
Livingstone, S. J., Clark, C. D., Woodward, J., Kingslake, J.. (2013) Potential subglacial lake locations and meltwater drainage pathways beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. The Cryosphere, 7 (). pp. doi:10.5194/tc-7-1721-2013
Siegert, Martin, Ross, Neil, Corr, Hugh, Kingslake, Jonathan, Hindmarsh, Richard ORCID record for Richard Hindmarsh. (2013) Late Holocene ice-flow reconfiguration in the Weddell sector of West Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 78 (). pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.003
Kingslake, Jonathan, Ng, Felix. (2013) Quantifying the predictability of the timing of jökulhlaups from Merzbacher Lake, Kyrgyzstan. Journal of Glaciology, 59 (). pp. doi:10.3189/2013JoG12J156
Kingslake, Jonathan, Ng, Felix. (2013) Modelling the coupling of flood discharge with glacier flow during jökulhlaups. Annals of Glaciology, 54 (). pp. doi:10.3189/2013AoG63A331
- Weddell Sea ice sheet and climate
- Ice Sheet Modelling
- Modelling the coupling of flood discharge with glacier flow during jökulhlaups