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

Edited Sources, Research Data Sets and Databases

• Chudley, T. R. (2022). Greenland Ice Sheet crevasse map from ArcticDEM. Zenodo.
• Howat, I. M., Chudley, T. R. & Noh, M. J. (2022). MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Single-Pair Velocity Maps from Optical Images, Version 1. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center.

Journal Article

• Chudley, T. R., Howat, I. M., King, M. D. & Negrete, A. (2023). Atlantic water intrusion triggers rapid retreat and regime change at previously stable Greenland glacier. Nature Communications 14(1).
• Dell, Rebecca L., Banwell, Alison F., Willis, Ian C., Arnold, Neil S., Halberstadt, Anna Ruth W., Chudley, Thomas R. & Pritchard, Hamish 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.
• Doyle, Samuel H., Hubbard, Bryn, Christoffersen, Poul, Law, Robert, Hewitt, Duncan R., Neufeld, Jerome A., Schoonman, Charlotte M., Chudley, Thomas R. & Bougamont, Marion (2022). Water flow through sediments and at the ice-sediment interface beneath Sermeq Kujalleq (Store Glacier), Greenland. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY 68(270): PII S0022143021001210, 665-684.
• Chudley, Thomas R., Howat, Ian M., Yadav, Bidhyananda & Noh, Myoung-Jong (2022). Empirical correction of systematic orthorectification error in Sentinel-2 velocity fields for Greenlandic outlet glaciers. CRYOSPHERE 16(6): 2629-2642.
• Cook, Samuel J., Christoffersen, Poul, Truffer, Martin, Chudley, Thomas R. & Abellan, Antonio (2021). Calving of a Large Greenlandic Tidewater Glacier has Complex Links to Meltwater Plumes and Melange. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE 126(4): e2020JF006051.
• Law, Robert, Christoffersen, Poul, Hubbard, Bryn, Doyle, Samuel H., Chudley, Thomas R., Schoonman, Charlotte M., Bougamont, Marion, des Tombe, Bas, Schilperoort, Bart, Kechavarzi, Cedric, Booth, Adam & Young, Tun Jan (2021). Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing. SCIENCE ADVANCES 7(20): eabe7136.
• Chudley, T. R., Christoffersen, P., Doyle, S. H., Dowling, T. P. F., Law, R., Schoonman, C. M., 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): e2021JF006287.
• Prior-Jones, Michael R., Bagshaw, Elizabeth A., Lees, Jonathan, Clare, Lindsay, Burrow, Stephen, Werder, Mauro A., Karlsson, Nanna B., Dahl-Jensen, Dorthe, Chudley, Thomas R., Christoffersen, Poul, Wadham, Jemma L., Doyle, Samuel H. & Hubbard, Bryn (2021). Cryoegg: development and field trials of a wireless subglacial probe for deep, fast-moving ice. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY 67(264): PII S0022143021000162, 627-640.
• Hubbard, Bryn, Christoffersen, Poul, Doyle, Samuel H., Chudley, Thomas R., Schoonman, Charlotte M., Law, Robert & Bougamont, Marion (2021). Borehole-Based Characterization of Deep Mixed-Mode Crevasses at a Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. AGU ADVANCES 2(2): e2020AV000291.
• Booth, Adam D., Christoffersen, Poul, Schoonman, Charlotte, Clarke, Andy, Hubbard, Bryn, Law, Robert, Doyle, Samuel H., Chudley, Thomas R. & Chalari, Athena (2020). Distributed Acoustic Sensing of Seismic Properties in a Borehole Drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 47(13): e2020GL088148.
• Chudley, Thomas R., Christoffersen, Poul, Doyle, Samuel H., Abellan, Antonio & Snooke, Neal (2019). High-accuracy UAV photogrammetry of ice sheet dynamics with no ground control. CRYOSPHERE 13(3): 955-968.
• Chudley, Thomas R. & Willis, Ian 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.
• Chudley, Thomas R., Christoffersen, Poul, Doyle, Samuel H., Bougamont, Marion, Schoonman, Charlotte M., Hubbard, Bryn & James, Mike R. (2019). Supraglacial lake drainage at a fast-flowing Greenlandic outlet glacier. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 116(51): 25468-25477.
• Chudley, Thomas R., Miles, Evan S. & Willis, Ian C. (2017). Glacier characteristics and retreat between 1991 and 2014 in the Ladakh Range, Jammu and Kashmir. REMOTE SENSING LETTERS 8(6): 518-527.