Published

• A.Payo, C. Williams, R. Vernon, A. G. Hulbert, K. A. Lee and J. R. Lee. Geometrical Analysis of the Inland Topography to Assess the Likely Response of Wave-Dominated Coastline to Sea Level: Application to Great Britain (2020). J. Mar. Sci. Eng., 8(11). DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse8110866

• J. R. Lee, R. Haslam, M. A. Woods, J. Rose, R. L. Graham, J. R. Ford, D. I. Schofield, T. I. Kearsey and C. N. Williams. Plio‐Pleistocene fault reactivation within the Crag Basin, eastern UK : implications for structural controls of landscape development within an intraplate setting (2020). BOREAS. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12462

• F. Schrodt, B. de la Barreda Bautista, C. Williams, et al. (2020) Integrating biodiversity, remote sensing and auxiliary information for the study of ecosystem functioning and conservation at large spatial scales. eds. Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Phil Townsend, John Gamon. Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-33156-6

• M. Cooper, T. Jordan, D. Schroeder, M. Siegert, C. Williams and J. Bamber. Subglacial roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet: relationship with contemporary ice velocity and geology (2019). The Cryosphere, 13. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2019-73

• F. Schrodt, J. J. Bailey, W. D. Kissling, K. F. Rijsdijk, A. C. Seijmonsbergen, D. van Ree, J. Hjort, R. S. Lawley, K. R. Royse, C. N. Williams, M. Anderson, P. Beier, P. van Beukering, D. S. Boyd, J. Brilha, L. Carcavilla, K. M. Dahlin, J. C. Gill, J. E. Gordon, M. Gray, M. Grundy, M. L. Hunter, J. J. Lawler, M. Monge-Ganuzas, I. Stewart, S. Record, W. Turner, P. L. Zarnetske and R. Field (2019). Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity. PNAS, 116 (33). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911799116

• A. Payo, B. J. Antelo, M. Hurst, M. Palaseanu-Lovejoy, C. Williams, G. Jenkins, K. Lee, D. Favis-Mortlock, A. Barkwith and M. Ellis (2018). Development of an automatic delineation of cliff top and toe on very irregular planform coastlines (CliffMetrics v1.0). Geosci. Model Dev. DOI:10.5194/gmd-11-4317-2018

• T. Jordan, C. Williams, D. Schroeder, Y. Martos, M. Cooper, M. Siegert, J. Paden, P. Huybrechts and J. Bamber. (2018) A constraint upon the basal water distribution and basal thermal state of the Greenland Ice Sheet from radar bed-echoes. The Cryosphere. DOI:10.5194/tc-12-2831-2018

• M. Morlighem, C. N. Williams, E. Rignot, L. An, J. E. Arndt, J. L. Bamber, G. Catania, N. Chauché, J. A. Dowdeswell, B. Dorschel, I. Fenty, K. Hogan, I. Howat, A. Hubbard, M. Jakobsson, T. M. Jordan, K. K. Kjeldsen, R. Millan, L. Mayer, J. Mouginot, B. P. Y. Noël, C. Ó Cofaigh, S. Palmer, S. Rysgaard, H. Seroussi, M. J. Siegert, P. Slabon, F. Straneo , M. R. van den Broeke, W. Weinrebe, M. Wood and K. B. Zinglersen. BedMachine v3: Complete bed topography and ocean bathymetry mapping of Greenland from multi-beam echo sounding combined with mass conservation. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI:10.1002/2017GL074954 - data download

• Jordan, T. M., Cooper, M. A., Schroeder, D. M., Williams, C. N., Paden, J. D., Siegert, M. J., and Bamber, J. L. (2017) Self-affine subglacial roughness: consequences for radar scattering and basal thaw discrimination in northern Greenland. The Cryosphere. DOI:10.5194/tc-11-1247-2017

• Williams, C. N., Cornford, S. L., Jordan, T. M., Dowdeswell, J. A., Siegert, M. J., Clark, C. D., Swift, D. A., Sole, A., Fenty, I., and Bamber, J. L. (2017) Generating synthetic fjord bathymetry for coastal Greenland. The Cryosphere. DOI:10.5194/tc-11-363-2017

• Jordan, T.M., Bamber, J.L., Williams, C.N., Paden, J.D., Siegert, M.J., Huybrechts, P., Gagliardini, O. and Gillet-Chaulet, F. (2016) An ice-sheet wide framework for englacial attenuation from ice penetrating radar data. The Cryosphere. 10, 1547-1570. DOI:10.5194/tc-2016-8

• Williams, C., Carrivick, J.L., Evans, A.J. and Rippin, D.M. (2016). Quantifying uncertainty in using multiple datasets to determine spatiotemporal ice mass loss over 101 years at Kårsaglaciären, sub-arctic Sweden. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. 98(1), 61–79. DOI:10.1111/geoa.12123

• Carrivick, J.L., Berry, K., Geilhausen, M., James, M.H.M., Williams, C., Brown, L.E., Rippin, D.M. and Carver, S.J., (2015). Decadal-scale changes of the Odenwinkelkees, central Austria, suggest increasing control of topography and evolution towards steady state. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. 97(3), 543–562. DOI:10.1111/geoa.12100

• Swindles, G., Reczuga, M., Lamentowicz, M., Raby, C., Turner, T., Charman, D., Gallego-Sala, A.,Valderrama, E., Williams, C., Draper, F., Coronado, E., Roucoux, K., Baker, T. & Mullan, D., (2014). Ecology of Testate Amoebae in an Amazonian Peatland and Development of a Transfer Function for Palaeohydrological Reconstruction. Microbial Ecology, DOI:10.1007/s00248-014-0378-5

• Williams, C. (2013) Geometric and surface energy balance change affecting Kårsaglaciären, northern Sweden, over the past century. PhD thesis - University of Leeds.

• Rippin, D.M., Carrivick, J.L., Williams, C., (2011). Evidence towards a thermal lag in the response of small Arctic glaciers to climate change. Journal of Glaciology 57(205), 895-903. DOI:10.3189/002214311798043672

Signatory and supporter

• W. J. Ripple, C. Wolf, T. M. Newsome, M. Galetti, M. Alamgir, E. Crist, M. I. Mahmoud, W. F. Laurance and 15,364 scientist signatories from 184 countries, (2017). World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice. BioScience, DOI:10.1093/biosci/bix125

Published code (Open Source)

• Synthetic channel mesh (for creating synthetic fjords)

• LFMapper - grid based linear feature characterisation

• A user friendly distributed glacier surface energy balance model

Project summaries

Generating synthetic fjord bathymetry for coastal Greenland

In the news

With the release of the Greenland bed map (BedMachine v3) in 2017, we had some coverage in the press - have a read:

Der Spiegel (German)

BBC article (English)

AGU article (English)

In preparation

• Williams, C. et al. (in prep.) LFMapper: spatially scalable linear feature characterisation using the FFT (target journal: The Journal of Open Source Software).

• Williams, C. et al. (in prep.) Rock exposure mapping in upland areas: a random forest aproach.

• Williams, C., O’Leary, M., Luckman, A., Jóhannesson, T., Murray, T., (in prep.) Crevasse mapping - an automated approach (target journal: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms).

Spoken and poster presentations

• Williams, C., Finlayson, A., Palamakumbura, R., Kearsey, T., Cornillon, S., and Whitbread, K. Mapping surface rock exposures to enhance geohazard susceptibility assessment: a random forest approach. EGU2020-5017, EGU General Assembly 2020 (conference presentation abstract), 4-8 May 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5017

• Zayad bassam Alzayer, Mark Fellgett, Vyron Christodoulou, Chris Williams, Joanna Walsh, Andrew Kingdon and Saswata Hier-Majumder. Digital Rock Physics Analysis of Core Integrity using Deep Neural Networks and Computer Vision (AGU, San Francisco, 2019).

• C. N. Williams, A. Hulbert and R. Lawley. Creation, curation and delivery of high resolution spatial datasetsensuring reliability for product development (EGU, Vienna 2019 - download abstract or download presentation)

• C. N. Williams, M. O’Leary, A. Luckman, T. Jóhannesson T. and Murray. Automated crevasse mapping: assisting with mountain and glacier hazard assessment (EGU, Vienna 2018 - download abstract or download presentation)

• C. N. Williams, E. Bee, C. Dashwood and B. Marchant. A data driven approach to landslide susceptibility mapping in Great Britain (EGU, Vienna 2018 - download abstract or download poster)

• M. Morlighem, C. N. Williams, E. Rignot, L. An, J. L. Bamber, N. Chauché, J. A. Dowdeswell, B. Dorschel, I. Fenty, D. M. Holland, D. Holland, I. Howat, A. Hubbard, T. M. Jordan, R. Millan, J. Mouginot, B. P. Y. Nöel, C. Ó Cofaigh, H. Seroussi, M. J. Siegert, P. Slabon, M. R. van den Broeke, W. Weinrebe and M. Wood. A new bed topography dataset for Greenland out to the continental shelf: BedMachine v3 (EGU, Vienna 2017 (download abstract (author list has changed) or download poster))

• Williams, C., Bamber, J.L., Jordan, T.M., Dowdeswell, J.A., Siegert, M.J., Palmer, S.J., Cornford, S.L., Morlighem, M., Fenty, I.G., Willis, J.K., Cochran, J.R., Tinto, K.J., A new bed topography dataset for Greenland out to the continental shelf (AGU, San Francisco 2016) (see abstract)

• Williams, C., Bamber, J., Cochran, J., Cornford, S., Dowdeswell, J., Jordan, T., Morlighem, M., Palmer, S., Siegert, M., Tinto, K. and Paden, J., A hydrologically inspired approach to predicting fjord bedrock elevation at the ice-ocean interface of the Greenland Ice Sheet (EGU, Vienna 2016 (download abstract))

• Williams, C., Bamber, J., Cochran, J., Cornford, S., Dowdeswell, J., Hurkmans, R., Jordan, T., Morlighem, M., Palmer, S., Siegert, M., Tinto, K., Paden, J., A novel approach to improving the reconstruction of bed elevation with special consideration of bathymetry at the ice/ocean interface of the Greenland ice sheet (AGU, San Francisco 2015 (see abstract))

• Williams, C., Luckman, A., O’Leary, M., Murray, T., Benn, D., Surface observations and crevasse evolution at high resolution: Greenland tidewater glaciers (International Glaciological Society British Branch meeting, Bristol, September 2014).

• Williams, C., Luckman, A., O’Leary, M., Murray, T., Benn, D., Calving observations at high resolution from a Greenland tidewater glacier (International Glaciological Society Symposium, Chamonix, May 2014).

• Williams, C., Carrivick, J., Evans, A., Numerical modelling of the effect of changing surface geometry on mountain glacier mass balance (Accepted abstract at AGU 2012, San Francisco, USA).

• Williams, C., Carrivick, J., Evans, A., Carver, S., Changing glacier morphology and glacier mass balance (Leeds University School of Earth and Environment postgraduate Conference, March 2012).

• Williams, C., Carrivick, J., Evans, A., Carver, S., Evaluating mountain glacier change over the 20th and early 21st century utilising a multi-scale approach (International Glaciological Society British Branch meeting, Cambridge, September 2011).

• Williams, C., Carrivick, J., Evans, A., Carver, S., Effects of changing glacier morphology on glacier mass balance (Leeds University School of Geography postgraduate Conference, March 2011).

• Williams, C., Arrell, K., Carrivick, J., Feedbacks between glacier morphology and mass balance (RGS-IBG Annual Conference, September 2010).