Ronan Agnew
Glacier Geophysicist
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Ronan Agnew
Glacier Geophysicist
Biography
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Ice Dynamics and Palaeoclimate team, working on the GHOST (Geophysical Habitat of Subglacial Thwaites) project as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. I am interested in investigating Antarctic glaciers and ice streams using geophysics – particularly using seismology to study subglacial conditions. In recent years I have also been involved in the ITGC’s TIME project at the Thwaites Eastern shear margin, and the EGGS ON TOAST (Eastwind Glacier Geophysical Surveys ON Top Of an Antarctic Ice Shelf Transition) project studying the grounding zone of Eastwind Glacier, near to McMurdo Station.
Research interests
Geophysics
Seismology
Ice streams
Subglacial conditions
Collaborations
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2025
Borthwick, Louise ORCID record for Louise Borthwick, Muto, Atsuhiro ORCID record for Atsuhiro Muto, Anandakrishnan, Sridhar ORCID record for Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Tinto, Kirsty ORCID record for Kirsty Tinto, Agnew, Ronan ORCID record for Ronan Agnew, Brisbourne, Alex ORCID record for Alex Brisbourne, Schlegel, Rebecca ORCID record for Rebecca Schlegel, Killingbeck, Siobhan ORCID record for Siobhan Killingbeck, Kulessa, Bernd ORCID record for Bernd Kulessa, Alley, Richard ORCID record for Richard Alley, Willet, Amanda, Melton, Sierra ORCID record for Sierra Melton. (2025) Rift‐Related Sedimentary Basin and Deeper‐Seated Mafic Intrusions Modeled Beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica: Influence on Glacier Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 130 (). 23 pp. doi:10.1029/2025JB031716
Agnew, Ronan S. ORCID record for Ronan S. Agnew, Pearce, Emma ORCID record for Emma Pearce, Karplus, Marianne, Ranganathan, Meghana, Hoffman, Andrew O., Hunt, Madeline, Pretorius, Andrew, Shanly, Sooraj E., Beres, Mitchel, Pradhan, Kaushik Kumar, Seldon, Yeshey, Booth, Adam D., Clark, Roger A, Young, Tun Jan. (2025) Active and Passive Seismic Surveys over the Grounding Zone of Eastwind Glacier, Antarctica. Seismological Research Letters, (). 15 pp. 10.1785/0220250024
2024
Agnew, Ronan S. ORCID record for Ronan S. Agnew, Clark, Roger A., Booth, Adam D., Brisbourne, Alex M. ORCID record for Alex M. Brisbourne, Smith, Andrew M. ORCID record for Andrew M. Smith. (2024) Measuring seismic attenuation in polar firn: method and application to Korff Ice Rise, West Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 69 (). 12 pp. 10.1017/jog.2023.82
Agnew, Ronan ORCID record for Ronan Agnew. (2024) Investigating the basal and englacial properties of a West Antarctic ice rise with novel active-source seismic methods. The University of Leeds, PhD thesis