Staff profile

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Professor in the Department of Geography | 404 | +44 (0) 191 33 41890 |
Professor , Sea Level, Ice and Climate | 404 | +44 (0) 191 33 41890 |
Biography
I am a glacial geologist and Quaternary scientist, interested in glacial and glacially-influenced sedimentation and the reconstruction of ice sheets.
My research has evolved from an initial focus on terrestrial investigations of glacial sediments and landforms, to the use of marine geology and geophysics to reconstruct ice sheet behaviour and sedimentation. I have a particular research interest in ice sheet reconstruction and the processes and patterns of glacimarine sedimentation on polar continental margins and have worked widely in the Arctic (Greenland, Arctic Canada, Svalbard, Norwegian-Greenland Sea) and Antarctica on these topics. I also have a long-standing active research interest in the history of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.

The underlying theme of my research is ice-sheet reconstruction from geological and geophysical evidence, and the use of modern glacial analogues to better understand the geological record.
I have been awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association (2005) and the Lyell Fund (2009) by the Geological Society of London in recognition of my research.
Some of my current research projects are listed below.

Full Publication list and Citation Information
- Full Publication List (8th April, 2019)
- Citation Information
Research groups
Research Projects
- BRITICE‐CHRONO: Constraining Rates and Style of Marine‐Influenced Ice Sheet Decay
- Glaciated North Atlantic Margins (GLANAM)
- Greenland in a Warmer Climate: What Controls the Advance & Retreat of the NE Greenland Ice Stream? (NEGIS)
- Identification and characterisation of ice stream sticky spots: an improved understanding of ice stream basal mechanics and shut-down
- Marine Geophysical and Geological Investigations of Late Quaternary Ice Sheet History and Sedimentation on the Greenland Continental Margin
- Understanding Marine Ice Stream Retreat Using Numerical Modelling and Geophysical Data
Publications
Chapter in book
- ÓCofaigh, C. (Published). Glacimarine Sediments and Ice-Rafted Debris. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Slias, S. Elsevier. 932-945.
- Ó Cofaigh, C. & Bentley, M.J. (2007). Late Quaternary Relative Sea Level Changes in High-Latitudes. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science. Elias S. Elsevier. 3052-3064.
- Ó Cofaigh, C. (2004). Tunnel Valleys. In Encyclopedia of Geomorphology. Goudie, A. S. London: Routledge. 1074-1075.
- Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D. J. A. & England, J. (2003). Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: sub-polar glacier margins of the Canadian and Greenland high arctic. In Glacial Landsystems. Evans, D. J. A. Hodder Arnold. 44-64.
- Ó Cofaigh, C., Taylor, J., Dowdeswell, J. A., Rosell-Mele, A., Kenyon, N. H., Evans, J. & Mienert, J. (2002). Sediment reworking on high-latitude continental margins and its implications for palaeoceanographic studies: insights from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. In Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. London: The Geological Society. Special Publications 203: 325-348.
- Dowdeswell, J. A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Taylor, J., Kenyon, N. H., Mienert, J. & Wilken, M. (2002). On the architecture of high-latitude continental margins: the influence of ice-sheet and sea-ice proceses in the Polar North Atlantic. In Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. London: The Geological Society. Special Publication 203: 33-54.
- Talling, P. J., Peakall, J., Sparks, R. S. J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J. A., Felix, M., Wynn, R. B., Baas, J. H., Hogg, A. J., Masson, D. G., Taylor, J. & Weaver, P. P. E. (2002). Experimental constraints on shear mixing rates and processes: implications for the dilution of submarine debris flows. In Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-Latitude Continental Margins. Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. Geological Society, London. Special Publication 203: 89-103.
- Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2002). Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins: introduction and overview. In Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. London: Geological Society. Special Publications 203: 1-9.
- Taylor, J., Dowdeswell, J. A., Kenyon, N. H. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2002). Late Quaternary architecture of trough-mouth fans: debris flows and suspended sediments on the Norwegian margin. In Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. Dowdenswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. London: The Geological Society. Special Publications 203: 55-71.
Edited book
- Dowdeswell, J. A. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2002). Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. Special Publication. The Geological Society.
Journal Article
- Ownsworth, Emma, Selby, David, Lloyd, Jeremy, Knutz, Paul, Szidat, Sönke, Andrews, John & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2023). Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model. Quaternary Science Reviews 308: 108082.
- Lloyd, J.M., Ribeiro, S., Weckström, K., Callard, L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Leng, M.J., Gulliver, P. & Roberts, D.H. (2023). Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 308: 108068.
- Smith, James A., Callard, Louise, Bentley, Michael J., Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Sánchez-Montes, Maria Luisa, Lane, Timothy P., Lloyd, Jeremy M., McClymont, Erin L., Darvill, Christopher M., Rea, Brice R., O'Cofaigh, Colm, Gulliver, Pauline, Ehrmann, Werner, Jones, Richard S. & Roberts, David H. (2023). Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments. The Cryosphere 17(3): 1247.
- Lane, T. P., Darvill, C. M., Rea, B. R., Bentley, M. J., Smith, J. A., Jamieson, S. S. R., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Geomorphological record of a former ice stream to ice shelf lateral transition zone in Northeast Greenland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- Clark, Chris D., Ely, Jeremy C., Hindmarsh, Richard C. A., Bradley, Sarah, Ignéczi, Adam, Fabel, Derek, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Chiverrell, Richard C., Scourse, James, Benetti, Sara, Bradwell, Tom, Evans, David J. A., Roberts, David H., Burke, Matt, Callard, S. Louise, Medialdea, Alicia, Saher, Margot, Small, David, Smedley, Rachel K., Gasson, Edward, Gregoire, Lauren, Gandy, Niall, Hughes, Anna L. C., Ballantyne, Colin, Bateman, Mark D., Bigg, Grant R., Doole, Jenny, Dove, Dayton, Duller, Geoff A. T., Jenkins, Geraint T. H., Livingstone, Stephen L., McCarron, Stephen, Moreton, Steve, Pollard, David, Praeg, Daniel, Sejrup, Hans Petter, Van Landeghem, Katrien J. J. & Wilson, Peter (2022). Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction. Boreas 51(4): 699-758.
- Giglio, C., Benetti, S., Plets, R.M.K, Dunlop, P., Ó Cofaigh, C., Sacchetti, F. & Salomon, E. (2022). Character of advance and retreat of the southwest sector of the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 291: 107655.
- Hogan, K. A., Arnold, N. S., Larter, R. D., Kirkham, J. D., Noormets, R., Ó Cofaigh, C., Golledge, N. R. & Dowdeswell, J. A. (2022). Subglacial Water Flow Over an Antarctic Palaeo‐Ice Stream Bed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 127(2): e2021JF006442.
- Streuff, Katharina T., Ó Cofaigh, Colm & Wintersteller, Paul (2022). GlaciDat – a GIS database of submarine glacial landforms and sediments in the Arctic. Boreas 51(3): 517-531.
- Giglio, Cristiana, Benetti, Sara, Sacchetti, Fabio, Lockhart, Edward, Hughes Clarke, John, Plets, Ruth, Van Landeghem, Katrien, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Scourse, James & Dunlop, Paul (2022). A Late Pleistocene channelized subglacial meltwater system on the Atlantic continental shelf south of Ireland. Boreas 51(1): 118-135.
- Benetti, Sara, Chiverrell, Richard C., Cofaigh, Colm Ó, Burke, Matt, Medialdea, Alicia, Small, David, Ballantyne, Colin, Bateman, Mark D., Callard, S. Louise, Wilson, Peter, Fabel, Derek, Clark, Chris D., Arosio, Riccardo, Bradley, Sarah, Dunlop, Paul, Ely, Jeremy C., Gales, Jenny, Livingstone, Stephen J., Moreton, Steven G., Purcell, Catriona, Saher, Margot, Schiele, Kevin, Van Landeghem, Katrien & Weilbach, Kasper (2021). Exploring controls of the early and stepped deglaciation on the western margin of the British Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(5): 833 - 870.
- Clark, Chris D., Chiverrell, Richard C., Fabel, Derek, Hindmarsh, Richard C. A., Ó Cofaigh, Colm & Scourse, James D. (2021). Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE‐CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(5): 673-680.
- Scourse, J. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Smedley, R. K., Small, D., Burke, M. J., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K. J. J., Duller, G. A. T., Cofaigh, C. Ó, Bateman, M. D., Benetti, S., Bradley, S., Callard, L., Evans, D. J. A., Fabel, D., Jenkins, G. T. H., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S., Ou, X., Praeg, D., Roberts, D. H., Roberts, H. M. & Clark, C. D. (2021). Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science 1-25.
- Ó Cofaigh, C., Callrd, S.L., Roberts, D.H., Chiverrell, R.C., Ballantyne, C.K., Evans, D.J.A., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K.J.J., Smedley, R., Benetti, S., Burke, M., Clark, C.D., Duller, G.A.T., Fabel, D., Livingstone, S.J., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S.G. & Sacchetti, F. (2021). Timing and pace of ice-sheet withdrawal across the marine-terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(5): 805-832.
- Bradwell, Tom, Fabel, Derek, Clark, Chris D., Chiverrell, Richard C., Small, David, Smedley, Rachel K., Saher, Margot H., Moreton, Steven G., Dove, Dayton, Callard, S. Louise, Duller, Geoff A. T., Medialdea, Alicia, Bateman, Mark D., Burke, Matthew J., McDonald, Neil, Gilgannon, Sean, Morgan, Sally, Roberts, David H. & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45 000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(5): 871-933.
- Bradwell, Tom, Small, David, Fabel, Derek, Clark, Chris D., Chiverrell, Richard C., Saher, Margot H., Dove, Dayton, Callard, S. Louise, Burke, Matthew J., Moreton, Steven G., Medialdea, Alicia, Bateman, Mark D., Roberts, David H., Golledge, Nicholas R., Finlayson, Andrew, Morgan, Sally & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet retreat: Shetland and northern North Sea sector. Journal of Quaternary Science 36(5): 681-722.
- Roberts, D.H., Ó Cofaigh, C., Ballantyne, C.K., Burke, M., Chiverrell, R.C., Evans, D.J.A., Clark C.D., Duller,G.A.T., Ely, J., Fabel, D., Small, D., Smedley, R. K. & Callard, S.L. (2020). The deglaciation of the western sector of the Irish Ice Sheet from the inner continental shelf to its terrestrial margin. Boreas 49(3): 438-460.
- Tarlati, Serena, Benetti, S., Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dunlop, P., Georgiopoulou, A., Edwards, R., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., Chiverrell, R., Fabel, D., Moreton, S., Morgan, S. & Clark, C.D. (2020). Final deglaciation of the Malin Sea through meltwater release and calving events. Scottish Journal of Geology 56(2): 117-133.
- Callard, S. Louise, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Benetti, Sara, Chiverrell, Richard C., Van Landeghem, Katrien J.J., Saher, Margot H., Livingstone, Stephen J., Clark, Chris D., Small, David, Fabel, Derek & Moreton, Steven G. (2020). Oscillating retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf offshore Galway Bay, western Ireland. Marine Geology 420: 106087.
- Davies, B.J., Livingstone, S.J., Roberts, D.H., Evans, D.J.A., Gheorghiu, D.M. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 225: 105989.
- Pope, Ed L., Normandeau, Alexandre, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Stokes, Chris R. & Talling, Peter J. (2019). Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets. Marine Geology 415: 105951.
- Bradwell, Tom, Small, David, Fabel, Derek, Smedley, Rachel K., Clark, Chris C., Saher, Margot H., Callard, S. Louise, Chiverrell, Richard C., Dove, Dayton, Moreton, Steven G., Roberts, David H., Duller, Geoff A.T. & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2019). Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength. Science Advances 5(4): eaau1380.
- Scourse, James, Saher, Margot, Van Landeghem, Katrien J.J., Lockhart, Edward, Purcell, Catriona, Callard, Louise, Roseby, Zoe, Allinson, Ben, Pieńkowski, Anna J., Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Praeg, Daniel, Ward, Sophie, Chiverrell, Richard, Moreton, Steve, Fabel, Derek & Clark, Chris D. (2019). Advance and retreat of the marine-terminating Irish Sea Ice Stream into the Celtic Sea during the last glacial: Timing and maximum extent. Marine Geology 412: 53-68.
- Ó Cofaigh, C., Weilbach, K., Lloyd, J. M., Benetti, S., Callard,S.L., Purcell, R.C., Chiverrell, R.C., Dunlop, P., Saher, M., Livingstone, S.J., Van Landeghem, K.J.J., Moreton, S.G., Clark, C.D. & Fabel, D. (2019). Early deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the Atlantic shelf northwest of Ireland driven by glacioisostatic depression and high relative sea level. Quaternary Science Reviews 208: 76-96.
- Roberts, David H., Grimoldi, Elena, Callard, Louise, Evans, David J.A., Clark, Chris D., Stewart, Heather A., Dove, Dayton, Saher, Margot, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Chiverrell, Richard C., Bateman, Mark D., Moreton, Steven G., Bradwell, Tom, Fabel, Derek & Medialdea, Alicia (2019). The mixed‐bed glacial landform imprint of the North Sea Lobe in the western North Sea. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 44(6): 1233-1258.
- Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R.C., Van Landeghem, K.J.J., Saher, M.H., Gales, J.A., Small, D., Clark, C.D., Livingstone, S.J., Fabel, D. & Moreton, S.G. (2018). Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 201: 280-302.
- Roberts, David H., Evans, David J.A., Callard, S. Louise, Clark, Chris D., Bateman, Mark D., Medialdea, Alicia, Dove, Dayton, Cotterill, Carol J., Saher, Margot, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Chiverrell, Richard C., Moreton, Steven G., Fabel, Derek & Bradwell, Tom (2018). Ice marginal dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the southern North Sea: Ice limits, timing and the influence of the Dogger Bank. Quaternary Science Reviews 198: 181-207.
- Lockhart, Edward A., Scourse, James D., Praeg, Daniel, Van Landeghem, Katrien J.J., Mellett, Claire, Saher, Margot, Callard, Louise, Chiverrell, Richard C., Benetti, Sara, Ó Cofaigh, Colm & Clark, Chris D. (2018). A stratigraphic investigation of the Celtic Sea megaridges based on seismic and core data from the Irish-UK sectors. Quaternary Science Reviews 198: 156-170.
- Barlow, N.L.M., McClymont, E.L., Whitehouse, P.L., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Woodroffe, S.A., Bentley, M.J., Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D.J.A., Horrocks, J.R., Lloyd, J.M., Long, A.J., Margold, M., Roberts, D.H. & Sanchez-Montes, M.L. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience 11: 627-634.
- Chiverrell, R. C., Smedley, R. K., Small, D., Ballantyne, C. K., Burke, M. J., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Duller, G. A. T., Evans, D. J. A., Fabel, D., van Landeghem, K., Livingstone, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Thomas, G. S. P., Roberts, D. H., Saher, M., Scourse, J. D. & Wilson, P. (2018). Ice margin oscillations during deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science 33(7): 739-762.
- Arosio, Riccardo, Dove, Dayton, Ó Cofaigh, Colm & Howe, John A. (2018). Submarine deglacial sediment and geomorphological record of southwestern Scotland after the Last Glacial Maximum. Marine Geology 403: 62-79.
- McCarron, Stephen, Praeg, Daniel, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Monteys, Xavier, Thébaudeau, Benjamin, Craven, Kieran, Saqab, Muhammad Mudasar & Cova, Andrea (2018). A Plio-Pleistocene sediment wedge on the continental shelf west of central Ireland: The Connemara Fan. Marine Geology 399: 97-114.
- Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Hogan, Kelly A., Jennings, Anne E., Callard, S. Louise, Dowdeswell, Julian A., Noormets, Riko & Evans, Jeff (2018). The role of meltwater in high-latitude trough-mouth fan development: The Disko Trough-Mouth Fan, West Greenland. Marine Geology 402: 17-32.
- Pope, Ed L., Talling, Peter J. & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2018). The relationship between ice sheets and submarine mass movements in the Nordic Seas during the Quaternary. Earth-Science Reviews 178: 208-256.
- Bickerdike, H.L., Evans, D.J.A., Stokes, C.R. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2018). The Glacial Geomorphology of the Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial in Britain: a review. Journal of Quaternary Science 33(1): 1-54.
- Jennings, A., Andrews, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., St-Onge, G., Belt, S., Cabedo-Sanz, P., Pearce, C., Hillaire-Marcel, C. & Campbell, C. (2018). Baffin Bay paleoenvironments in the LGM and HS1: Resolving the ice-shelf question. Marine Geology 402: 5-16.
- Bickerdike, H.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D.J.A & Stokes, C.R. (2018). Glacial landsystems, retreat dynamics and controls on Loch Lomond Stadial (Younger Dryas) glaciation in Britain. Boreas 47(1): 202-224.
- Hofmann, Julia C., Knutz, Paul C., Kjær, Kurt H., Nielsen, Tove & Ó Cofaigh, Colm (2018). Glacial and submarine processes on the shelf margin of the Disko Bay trough Mouth Fan. Marine Geology 402: 33-50.
- Streuff, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R. & Lloyd, J.M. (2018). Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes in front of Spitsbergen tidewater glaciers. Marine Geology 402: 209-227.
- Morlighem, M., Williams, C. N., Rignot, E., An, L., Arndt, J. E., Bamber, J. L., Catania, G., Chauché, N., Dowdeswell, J. A., Dorschel, B., Fenty, I., Hogan, K., Howat, I., Hubbard, A., Jakobsson, M., Jordan, T. M., Kjeldsen, K. K., Millan, R., Mayer, L., Mouginot, J., Noël, B. P. Y., O'Cofaigh, C., Palmer, S., Rysgaard, S., Seroussi, H., Siegert, M. J., Slabon, P., Straneo, F., van den Broeke, M. R., Weinrebe, W., Wood, M. & Zinglersen, K. B. (2017). BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation. Geophysical Research Letters 44(21): 11,051-11,061.
- Streuff, Katharina, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Hogan, Kelly, Jennings, Anne, Lloyd, Jeremy M., Noormets, Riko, Nielsen, Tove, Kuijpers, Antoon, Dowdeswell, Julian A. & Weinrebe, Wilhelm (2017). Seafloor geomorphology and glacimarine sedimentation associated with fast-flowing ice sheet outlet glaciers in Disko Bay, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 169: 206-230.
- Jennings, A.E., Andrews, J.T., Ó Cofaigh, C., St Onge, G., Sheldon, C., Belt, S.T., Cabedo-Sanz, P. & Hillaire-Marcel, C. (2017). Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 472: 1-13.
- Streuff, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R. & Lloyd, J. (2017). Submarine Landforms and Glacimarine Sedimentary Processes in Lomfjorden, East Spitsbergen. Marine Geology 390: 51-71.
- Garcia, M., Dowdeswell, J.A., Noormets, R., Hogan, K.A., Evans, J., Ó Cofaigh, C. & LArter, R.D. (2016). Geomorphic and shallow-acoustic investigation of an Antarctic Peninsula fjord system using high-resolution ROV and shipboard geophysical observations: ice dynamics and behaviour since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 153: 122-138.
- Peters, J.L., Benetti, S., Dunlop, P., Ó Cofaigh, C., Moreton, S.G., Wheeler, A.J. & Clark, C.D. (2016). Sedimentology and chronology of the advance and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf west of Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews 140: 101-124.
- Rignot, E., Fenty, I., Xu, Y., Cai, C., Velicogna, I., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J. A., Weinrebe, W., Catania, G. & Duncan, D. (2016). Bathymetry data reveal glaciers vulnerable to ice-ocean interaction in Uummannaq and Vaigat glacial fjords, West Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters 43(6): 2667-2674.
- Livingstone, S.J., Stokes, C.R., O Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C-D., Vieli, A., Jamieson, S.S.R., Spagnolo, M. & Dowdeswell, J. (2016). Subglacial processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed. 1: Sediment transport and bedform genesis inferred from marine geophysical data. Journal of Glaciology 62(232): 270-284.
- Jamieson, S.S.R., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J., Vieli, A. Ò Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C-D. & Spagnolo, M. (2016). Subglacial processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed. 2: Can modelled ice dynamics explain the morphology of mega-scale glacial lineations? Journal of Glaciology 62(232): 285-298.
- Sheldon, C., Jennings, A., Andrews, J.T., Ó Cofaigh, C., Hogan, K., Dowdeswell, J.A. & Seidenkrantz, M.-S. (2016). Ice Stream retreat following the LGM and onset of the West Greenland Current in Uummannaq Trough, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 147: 27-46.
- Bickerdike,H., Evans, D.J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Stokes, C.R. (2016). The glacial geomorphology of the Loch Lomond Stadial in Britain: a map and geographic information system resource of published evidence. Journal of Maps 12(5): 1178-1186.
- Hogan, K.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Jennings, A.E., Dowdeswell, J.A. & Hiemstra, J.F. (2016). Deglaciation of a major palaeo-ice stream in Disko Trough, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 147: 5-26.
- Streuff, K., Forwick, M., Szczuciński, W., Andreassen, K. & O'Cofaigh, C. (2015). Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes related to glacier surging in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Arktos 1: 14.
- Livingstone, S., Roberts, D.H., Davies, B., Evans, D., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Gheorghiu, D. (2015). Late Devensian deglaciation of the Tyne Gap Palaeo-Ice Stream, northern England. Journal of Quaternary Science 30(8): 790-804.
- Gallagher, C., Telfer, M.W. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2015). A Marine Isotope Stage 4 age for Pleistocene raised beach deposits near Fethard, southern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science 30(8): 754-763.
- Praeg, D., McCarron, S., Dove, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Scott, G., Monteys, X., Facchin, L., Romeo, R. & Coxon, P. (2015). Ice sheet extension to the Celtic Sea shelf edge at the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 111: 107-112.
- Peters, J.L., Benetti, S., Dunlop, P. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2015). Maximum extent and dynamic behaviour of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet west of Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews 128: 48-68.
- Ó Cofaigh, C., Davies, B.J., Livingstone, S.J., Smith, J.A., Johnson, J.S., Hocking, E.P., Hodgson, D.A., Anderson, J.B., Bentley, M.J., Canals, M., Domack, E., Dowdeswell, J.A., Evans, J., Glasser, N.F., Hillenbrand, C.D., Larter, R.D., Roberts, S.J. & Simms, A.R. (2014). Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100: 87-110.
- Jamieson, S.S.R., Vieli, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J. & Hillenbrand, C-D. (2014). Understanding controls on rapid ice-stream retreat during the last deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, using a numerical model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 119(2): 247-263.
- Turner, A.J., Woodward, J., Stokes, C.R., O'Cofaigh, C. & Dunning, S. (2014). Glacial geomorphology of the Great Glen Region of Scotland. Journal of Maps 10(1): 159-178.
- Evans, D.J.A., Young, N.J.P. & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2014). Glacial geomorphology of terrestrial- terminating fast flow lobes/ice stream margins in the southwest Laurentide Ice Sheet. Geomorphology 204: 86-113.
- Hodgson, D.A., Graham, A.G.C., Griffiths, H.J., Roberts, S.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Bentley, M.J. & Evans, D.J.A. (2014). Glacial history of sub-Antarctic South Georgia based on the submarine geomorphology of its fjords. Quaternary Science Reviews 89: 129-147.
- Larter, R.D., Anderson, J.B., Graham, A.G.C., Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Jakobsson, M., Johnson, J.S., Kuhn, G., Nitsche, F.O., Smith, J.A., Witus, A.E., Bentley, M.J., Dowdeswell, J.A., Ehrmann, W., Klages, J.P., Lindow, J., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Spiegel, C. (2014). Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100: 55-86.
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