Publications

Thomas R Chudley, Chris R Stokes, James M Lea, Thomas Winterbottom, Robert Law, Caroline Clason, Holly E Wytiahlowsky, & Jack L Dechow (2026). Seasonal ice dynamics control the timing of crevasse drainage at a fast-flowing outlet glacier. AGU Advances. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002150.

Sjur Barndon, Robert Law, Andreas Born, Thomas Chudley, & Stefanie Brechtelsbauer (2026). Ice motion acorss incised fjord landscapes. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-2757-2026.

Robert Law, Andreas Born, Philipp Voigt, Joseph A. MacGregor, & Claire Marie Guimond (2026). Exploring the conditions conducive to convection within the Greenland Ice Sheet. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-1071-2026.

Jiake Wu, Lei Zheng, Zhuoqi Chen, Quan Zhou, Chuyue Peng, Qi Liang, Teng Li, Baojuan Huai, Weijun Sun, Xiao Cheng, Robert Law, & Fengming Hui (2025). Greenland supraglacial lakes albedo-depth parameterization from multi-source remote sensing: An application of lake-albedo feedback modeling. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134001. .pdf here

Robert Law (2025). Rapid hydrofracture of icy moon shells: insights from glaciology. JGR Planets, e2024JE008403. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008403. .pdf here

Craig R. Walton , Jessica K. Rigley, Alexander Lipp, Robert Law, Martin D Suttle, Maria Schönbächler, Mark Wyatt, & Oliver Shorttle (2024). Cosmic dust fertilization of glacial prebiotic chemistry on early Earth. Nature Astronomy. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02212-z.

Therese Rieckh, Andreas Born, Alexander Robinson, Robert Law, & Gerrit Gülle (2024). Design and performance of ELSA v2. 0: an isochronal model for ice-sheet layer tracing. Geoscientific Model Development. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6987-2024.

Anja Løkkegaard, Kenneth Mankoff, Christian Zdanowicz, Gary D. Clow, Martin P. Lüthi, Samuel Doyle, Henrik Thomsen, David Fisher, Joel Harper, Andy Aschwanden, Bo M. Vinther, Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Harry Zekollari, Toby Meierbachtol, Ian McDowell, Neil Humphrey, Anne Solgaard, Nanna B. Karlsson, Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Benjamin Hills, Robert Law, Bryn Hubbard, Poul Christoffersen, Mylène Jacquemart, Robert S. Fausto, & William T. Colgan (2023). Greenland and Canadian Arctic ice temperature profiles. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3829-2023.

Robert Law, Poul Christoffersen, Emma Mackie, Samuel Cook, Marianne Haseloff, & Olivier Gagliardini (2023). Complex motion of Greenland Ice Sheet outlet glaciers with basal temperate ice. Science Advances, eabq518. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq5180.

Samuel Doyle, Bryn Hubbard, Poul Christoffersen, Robert Law, Duncan Hewitt, Jerome Neufeld, Charlotte Schoonman, Tom Chudley, & Marion Bougamont (2021). Water flow through sediments and at the ice-sediment interface beneath Sermeq Kujalleq (Store Glacier), Greenland. Journal of Glaciology. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.121.

Tom R. Chudley, Poul Christoffersen, Samuel H. Doyle, Thomas P. F. Dowling, Robert Law, Charlotte M. Schoonman, Marion Bougamont, & Bryn Hubbard (2021). Controls on Water Storage and Drainage in Crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet. JGR Earth Surface, e2021JF006287. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006287.

Bryn Hubbard, Poul Christoffersen, Samuel H. Doyle, Thomas R. Chudley, Charlotte M. Schoonman, Robert Law, & Marion Bougamont (2021). Borehole-Based Characterization of Deep Mixed-Mode Crevasses at a Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. AGU Advances, e2020AV000291. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000291.

Robert Law, Poul Christoffersen, Bryn Hubbard, Samuel H. Doyle, Thomas R. Chudley, Charlotte M. Schoonman, Marion Bougamont, Bas des Tombe, Bart Schilperoort, Cedric Kechavarzi, Adam Booth, & Tun Jan Young (2021). Thermodynamics of a fast-moving Greenlandic outlet glacier revealed by fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing. Science Advances, eabe7136. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe7136.

Adam Booth, Poul Christoffersen, Charlotte Schoonman, Andy Clarke, Bryn Hubbard, Robert Law, Samuel H. Doyle, Thomas R. Chudley, & Athena Chalari (2020). Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) of Seismic Properties in a Borehole drilled on a Fast-Flowing Greenlandic Outlet Glacier. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL088148.

Robert Law, Neil Arnold, Corinne Benedek, Marco Tedesco, Alison Banwell, & Ian Willis (2020). Over-winter persistence of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet: results and insights from a new model. Journal of Glaciology. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2020.7.

Robert Law & Mark Allen (2020). Diachronous Tibetan Plateau landscape evolution derived from lava field geomorphology. Geology, 48(3), 263–267. https://doi.org/10.1130/g47196.1.

Preprints

Emma J. MacKie, Lu Li, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, Robert Law, Maximilian Lowe, Felicity S. McCormack, Guy J. G. Paxman, Alan R. A. Aitken, Eliza Dawson, Jeremy Ely, Michael Field, Jacqueline A. Halpin, Dougal Hansen, Yasmina M. Martos, Sophie Nowicki, Anya Reading, Niya Shao, Tobias Stål, Kirsty J. Tinto, and Ryan Venturelli (2026). Towards bridging the gap between Antarctic subglacial boundary conditions and ice-sheet model parameterization. EGUSphere preprint.
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-5815.

Robert Law, Mylène Jacquemart, Matthias Bühler, Mauro Angelo Werder, & Janosch Beer (2026). Fibre-optic strain sensing on an alpine glacier. EGUSphere preprint. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3329.

Robert Law, David Chandler, & Andreas Born (2026). What is glacier sliding?. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.13577

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