I started working at BAS in January 2015. Working with Hilmar Gudmundsson, I look at what inverse methods can tell us about the nature of basal control on the flow of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica.

As an undergraduate I studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, before completing my DPhil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Richard Katz and Andrew Fowler. My research focused on the feedback between ice-sheet flow and the flow of meltwater at the bed. In particular, I addressed the importance this feedback has on the emergence of ice streams through the development of theoretical models and numerical simulations.

Research interests

• ice sheet dynamics
• ice streams
• subglacial hydrology
• inversion methods
• glacial sliding
• fluid dynamics

Kyrke-Smith, T.M., Katz, R.F., Fowler, A.C.. (2015) Subglacial hydrology as a control on emergence, scale, and spacing of ice streams. Journal of Geophysical Research, 120. 1501-1514. 10.1002/2015JF003505 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JF003505/pdf

Kyrke-Smith T.M. and A.C. Fowler (2014). Subglacial swamps. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 470:20140340 http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsa/470/2171/20140340.full.pdf

Kyrke-Smith T.M., R.F. Katz, and A.C. Fowler (2014) Subglacial hydrology and the formation of ice streams. Proceedings of the Royal Society A.  70:20130494. http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royprsa/470/2161/20130494.full.pdf

Kyrke-Smith, T.M., R.F. Katz and A.C. Fowler (2013) Stress balances of ice streams in a vertically integrated, higher-order formulation. Journal of Glaciology. 59 (215). 449-466.  http://foalab.earth.ox.ac.uk/publications/Kyrke-Smith_Katz_Fowler_JGlac13.pdf

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive