Staff profile

I am a glaciologist interested in ice sheet dynamics, glacial hydrology, and ice-ocean interactions. My current research aims to assess the influence of crevasse hydrology on the dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet. I am using large-scale satellite analysis, including deep learning approaches, to map fractures and water across Greenland, and numerical modelling to investigate the effect on long-term ice-sheet stability.

Academic History

• 2023 - Present: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK
• 2021 - 2022: Research Associate, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University, USA
• 2016 - 2020: Ph.D. Polar Studies, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

Research Groups

• Sea Level, Ice, and Climate

• Ice sheet dynamics
• Glacial hydrology
• Ice-ocean interactions
• Earth observation

Journal Article

• Lu, X., Sole, A., Livingstone, S. J., Cheng, G., Jiang, L., Chudley, T., Noël, B., & Li, D. (2025). Ice Thickness‐Induced Variations in Effective Pressure and Basal Conditions Influence Seasonal and Multi‐Annual Ice Velocity at Sermeq Kujalleq (Jakobshavn Isbræ). Geophysical Research Letters, 52(4), Article e2024GL111092. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gl111092
• Chudley, T. R., Howat, I. M., King, M. D., & MacKie, E. J. (2025). Increased crevassing across accelerating Greenland Ice Sheet margins. Nature Geoscience, 18(2), 148-153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01636-6
• Chudley, T. R., & Howat, I. M. (2024). pDEMtools: conveniently search, download, and process ArcticDEM and REMA products. The Journal of Open Source Software, 9(102), Article 7149. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07149
• Elma, E., Gaulton, R., Chudley, T. R., Scott, C. L., East, H. K., Westoby, H., & Fitzsimmons, C. (2024). Evaluating UAV‐based multispectral imagery for mapping an intertidal seagrass environment. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34(8), Article e4230. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.4230
• Benn, D. I., Todd, J., Luckman, A., Bevan, S., Chudley, T. R., Åström, J., Zwinger, T., Cook, S., & Christoffersen, P. (2023). Controls on calving at a large Greenland tidewater glacier: stress regime, self-organised criticality and the crevasse-depth calving law. Journal of Glaciology, 69(278), 2059-2074. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2023.81
• Chudley, T., Howat, I., King, M., & Negrete, A. (2023). Atlantic water intrusion triggers rapid retreat and regime change at previously stable Greenland glacier. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 2151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37764-7
• Doyle, S. H., Hubbard, B., Christoffersen, P., Law, R., Hewitt, D. R., Neufeld, J. A., Schoonman, C. M., Chudley, T. R., & Bougamont, M. (2022). Water flow through sediments and at the ice-sediment interface beneath Sermeq Kujalleq (Store Glacier), Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 68(270), 665-684. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.121
• Dell, R. L., Banwell, A. F., Willis, I. C., Arnold, N. S., Halberstadt, A. R. W., Chudley, T. R., & Pritchard, H. D. (2022). Supervised classification of slush and ponded water on Antarctic ice shelves using Landsat 8 imagery (vol 68, pg 401, 2021). Journal of Glaciology, 68(268), 415-416. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.15
• Chudley, T. R., Howat, I. M., Yadav, B., & Noh, M.-J. (2022). Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers. The Cryosphere, 16(6), 2629-2642. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-2629-2022
• Chudley, T., Christoffersen, P., Doyle, S., Dowling, T., Law, R., Schoonman, C., Bougamont, M., & Hubbard, B. (2021). Controls on Water Storage and Drainage in Crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(9), Article e2021JF006287. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jf006287
• Prior-Jones, M. R., Bagshaw, E. A., Lees, J., Clare, L., Burrow, S., Werder, M. A., Karlsson, N. B., Dahl-Jensen, D., Chudley, T. R., Christoffersen, P., Wadham, J. L., Doyle, S. H., & Hubbard, B. (2021). Cryoegg: development and field trials of a wireless subglacial probe for deep, fast-moving ice. Journal of Glaciology, 67(264), 627-640. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.16
• Hubbard, B., Christoffersen, P., Doyle, S. H., Chudley, T. R., Schoonman, C. M., Law, R., & Bougamont, M. (2021). Borehole-Based Characterization of Deep Mixed-Mode Crevasses at a Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. AGU advances, 2(2), Article e2020AV000291. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020av000291
• Law, R., Christoffersen, P., Hubbard, B., Doyle, S. H., Chudley, T. R., Schoonman, C. M., Bougamont, M., des Tombe, B., Schilperoort, B., Kechavarzi, C., Booth, A., & Young, T. J. (2021). Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing. Science Advances, 7(20), Article eabe7136. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe7136
• Cook, S. J., Christoffersen, P., Truffer, M., Chudley, T. R., & Abellan, A. (2021). Calving of a Large Greenlandic Tidewater Glacier has Complex Links to Meltwater Plumes and Melange. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(4), Article e2020JF006051. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jf006051
• Booth, A. D., Christoffersen, P., Schoonman, C., Clarke, A., Hubbard, B., Law, R., Doyle, S. H., Chudley, T. R., & Chalari, A. (2020). Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Seismic Properties in a Borehole Drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(13), Article e2020GL088148. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gl088148
• Chudley, T. R., & Willis, I. C. (2019). Glacier surges in the north-west West Kunlun Shan inferred from 1972 to 2017 Landsat imagery. Journal of Glaciology, 65(249), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2018.94
• Chudley, T. R., Christoffersen, P., Doyle, S. H., Bougamont, M., Schoonman, C. M., Hubbard, B., & James, M. R. (2019). Supraglacial lake drainage at a fast-flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(51), 25468-25477. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913685116
• Chudley, T. R., Christoffersen, P., Doyle, S. H., Abellan, A., & Snooke, N. (2019). High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control. The Cryosphere, 13(3), 955-968. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-955-2019
• Chudley, T. R., Miles, E. S., & Willis, I. C. (2017). Glacier characteristics and retreat between 1991 and 2014 in the Ladakh Range, Jammu and Kashmir. Remote Sensing Letters, 8(6), 518-527. https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704x.2017.1295480

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Chudley, T. (2022). Greenland Ice Sheet crevasse map from ArcticDEM. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6779088
• Howat, I., Chudley, T., & Noh, M. (2022). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Single-Pair Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 1. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5067/b28fm2qvvywy