My research focuses on improving estimates of the timing of ‘peak water’ in glaciated catchments in Central Asia (www.centralasiawater.blog). For this, I developed a glacier and snow model for the DECIPHeR hydrology model and applied it to the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan.
Previously, I co-developed a surface mass balance scheme for JULES and used this to generate projections of global glacier mass loss under high-end climate change scenarios. I have contributed glacier loss projections to the glacierMIP project to assess the sources of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections.

Prior to that, I worked on the EU ice2sea project where my role was to develop a parameterisation to represent melt water induced basal siding on the Greenland ice sheet. The parameterisation was applied to four ice sheet models within ice2sea to estimate the basal sliding contribution to sea-level rise from the Greenland ice sheet. I am also involved in projects to assess the risk of glacier lake outburst floods in Peru and Chile.