Having completed a PhD in sea level science at NOC Liverpool, I am now employed on a NERC grant to analyse data from photogrammetric analysis of ~50 years of glacier mass change on the Antarctic Peninsular. The work will involve relating the trends and patterns identified by this analysis to climate, marine temperature and sea ice records to establish relationships with various forcings. We aim to model the affect of the break-up of ice shelves on the flow dynamics of tributary glaciers.

Previously I have worked as an Environmental Consultant in hydrology and hydrogeology and as a software developer and consultant in air quality modelling.

Hibbert, A.; Royston, S,; Horsburgh, K.; Leach, H.; Hisscott, A.. 2015 An empirical approach to improving tidal predictions using recent real-time tide gauge data. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 8 (1). 40-51. 10.1080/1755876X.2015.1014641

Royston, S., Lawry, J. and Horsburgh, K. (2013) “A linguistic decision tree approach to predicting storm
surge”, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 215, pp90—111, doi:10.1016/j.fss.2012.10.001

Royston, S., Horsburgh, K. and Lawry, J. (2012) “Application of rule based methods to predicting storm
surge”, Continental Shelf Research, 37, pp 79—91, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2012.02.018

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