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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Member of the Royal Geographical Society Accreditation Panel

British Society for Geomorphology

International Glaciological Society

American Geophysical Union

Glacial Sediment Stores and Their Reworking

Open-source Telemetry Instrumentation for Networked and Real-time Glacier Monitoring

On the verge of a surge; Kongsvegen, northwestern Svalbard.

Near‐surface hydraulic conductivity of northern hemisphere glaciers

Assessing the applicability of terrestrial laser scanning for mapping englacial conduits

Dr Phil Porter is Reader in Geoscience and Geoscience Education in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a glacier scientist and has led and participated in numerous scientific expeditions to some of the last true wilderness areas on our planet - locations raging from the frozen wastes of the High-Arctic to the high peaks of the Himalaya. Phil‘s scientific work focuses on the response of glaciers to a warming world and, in particular, the impacts of warming on meltwater production and delivery. 

Phil’s doctorate examined why some glaciers periodically move at high speeds (a process known as ‘surging’). This research entailed High-Arctic fieldwork totalling almost four months in duration and camping on the ice surface for that period. He is a British Science Association Media Fellow, has worked in the BBC Radio Science Unit, appeared on television, radio and in the written press.

Meltwater

Global Warming

Geoscience

Glaciers

Ice Sheets

Arctic

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Joining the dots between climate change and air quality

Making the UK's dams safe, AI spots fake smiles, How many trees should we be planting?

The snowball effect of Arctic fires

The Shrinking Glaciers of Everest

Monitoring ablation and meltwater production from a debris-covered glacier in Nepal

Reader in Geoscience and Geoscience Education

Geography and Environment - Taster Lecture

Dr Phillip Porter, Associate Dean Education in the University of Hertfordshire's School of Life and Medical Sciences, reflects on World Earth Day in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the opportunities a change in behaviour holds for environmental impact in the future.

Celebrating World Earth Day 2020

Phil Porter

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