- E-mailAnna.Hughes@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 81 09
- Visitor AddressUniversity of ManchesterSchool of Environment, Education & DevelopmentRoom1.039, Arthur Lewis Building
- Postal AddressPostboks 78035020 Bergen
I am interested in ice sheets and glaciers, and their interaction with climate. I use traces left by the action of ice movement preserved in the landscape to reconstruct the past size, movement and dynamics of former ice masses.
My research to date has included: geomorphological mapping of glacial landforms across Britain, primarily using digital elevation models but also in the field; identification of glacial trimlines in south-east Greenland using multi-spectral satellite imagery; and 10Be exposure dating of glacially streamlined surfaces and erratic boulders in Greenland and Norway to determine ice-retreat rates.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8584-5202
Scopus Author ID: 20436383200
ResearcherID: J-5628-2015
Publications in Google scholar
Ng, F.S.L., Hughes, A.L.C. 2018: Reconstructing ice‐flow fields from streamlined subglacial bedforms: a kriging approach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi:10.1002/esp.4538
Dyke, L. M., Hughes, A.L.C., Andresen, C. S., Murray, T., Hiemstra, J. F., Bjørk, A. A.Rodés, Á. 2018: The deglaciation of coastal areas of southeast Greenland. The Holocene doi: 10.1177/0959683618777067
Petrini, M., Colleoni, F., Kirchner, N., Hughes, A. L. C., Camerlenghi, A., Rebesco, M., Lucchi, R. G., Forte, E., Colucci, R. R,. Noormets, R. 2018: Interplay of grounding-line dynamics and sub-shelf melting during retreat of the Bjørnøyrenna Ice Stream. Scientific Reports 8: 7196. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25664-6
Rainsley, E.; Menviel, L.; Fogwill, C.J.; Turney, C.S.M.; Hughes, A.L.C.; Rood, D.H. 2018. Greenland ice mass loss during the Younger Dryas driven by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation feedbacks. Scientific Reports 8: 11307. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-29226-8
Clark, C.D., Ely, J.C., Greenwood, S.L., Hughes, A.L.C., Meehan, R., Barr, I.D., Bateman, M.D., Bradwell, T., Doole, J., Evans, D.J.A., Jordan, C.J., Monteys, X., Pellicer, X.M. & Sheehy, M. 2017: BRITICE Glacial Map, version 2: a map and GIS database of glacial landforms of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet. Boreas. doi: 10.1111/bor.12273
Clark, C.D., Ely, J.C., Spagnolo, M., Hahn, U., Hughes, A.L.C., Stokes, C.R. 2017: Spatial organization of drumlins. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, doi: 10.1002/esp.4192
Dyke, L.M., Andresen, C.S., Seidenkrantz, M-S., Hughes, A.L.C., Hiemstra, J.F., Murray, T., Bjørk, A.A., Sutherland, D.A., Vermassen, F. 2017: Minimal Holocene retreat of large tidewater glaciers in Køge Bugt, southeast Greenland. Scientific Reports, 7, 12330. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12018-x
Ely, J.C., Clark, C.D., Spagnolo, M., Hughes, A.L.C., Stokes, C.R. 2017: Using the size and position of drumlins to understand how they grow, interact and evolve. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.4241
Evans, D.J.A., Hughes, A.L.C., Hansom, J.D., Roberts, D.H. 2017. Scottish Landform Examples 43: Glacifluvial Landforms of Strathallan, Perthshire. Scottish Geographical Journal, 133, 42-53. doi: 10.1080/14702541.2016.1254276
Hughes, A.L.C., Gyllencreutz, R., Lohne, Ø.S., Mangerud, J., Svendsen, J.I. 2016. The last Eurasian Ice Sheets - a chronological database and time-slice reconstruction, DATED-1. Boreas, 45, 1-45, doi:10.1111/bor.12142
Ely, J.C., Clark, C.D., Spagnolo, M., Stokes, C.R., Greenwood, S.L., Hughes, A.L.C., Dunlop, P., Hess, D. 2016. Do subglacial bedforms comprise a size and shape continuum? Geomorphology, 257, 108-119. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.01.001
Mangerud, J., Aarseth, I., Hughes, A.L.C., Lohne, Ø.S., Skår, K., Sønstegaard, E., Svendsen, J.I. 2016. A major re-growth of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet in western Norway during Allerød-Younger Dryas. Quaternary Science Reviews, 132, 175-205, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.013
Hillier, J.K., Smith, M.J., Armugam, R., Barr, I., Boston, C.M., Clark, C.D., Ely, J., Fankl, A., Greenwood, S.L., Gosselin, L., Hättestrand, C., Hogan, K., Hughes, A.L.C., Livingstone, S.J., Lovell, H., McHenry, M., Munoz, Y., Pellicer, X.M., Pellitero, R., Robb, C., Roberson, S., Rüther, D., Spagnolo, M., Standell, M., Stokes, C.R., Storrar, R., Tate N.J., Wooldridge K. 2015. Manual mapping of drumlins in synthetic landscapes to assess operator effectiveness, Journal of Maps, 11:5, 719-729, doi:10.1080/17445647.2014.957251
Murray, T., Scharrer, K., Selmes, N., Booth, A.D., James, T.D., Bevan, S.L., Bradley, J., Cook, S., Cordero Llana, L., Drocourt, Y., Dyke, L., Goldsack, A., Hughes, A.L.C., Luckman, A.J., and McGovern, J. 2015. Extensive retreat of Greenland tidewater glaciers 2000-2010. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 47, 427-447. doi: 10.1657/AAAR0014-049
Stokes, C.R., Tarasov, L., Blomdin R., Cronin, T.M., Fisher, T.G., Gyllencreutz, R., Hättestrand, C., Heyman, J., Hindmarsh, R.C.A., Hughes, A.L.C., Jakobsson, M., Kirchner, N., Livingstone, S.J., Margold, M., Murton, J.B., Noormets, R., Peltier, W.R., Peteet, D.M., Piper, D.J.W., Preusser, F., Renssen, H. Roberts, D.H., Roche, D.M., Saint-Ange, F., Stroeven, A.P., Teller, J.T. 2015. On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges. Quaternary Science Reviews, 125, 15-49, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.016
Hughes, A.L.C., Clark, C.D., Jordan, C.J. 2014. Flow-pattern evolution of the last British Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 89, 148-168. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.02.002
Dyke, L.M., Hughes, A.L.C., Murray, T., Hiemstra, J.F., Andresen, C.S., Rodés, Á. 2014. Evidence for the asynchronous retreat of large outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland at the end of the last glaciation, Quaternary Science Reviews, 99, 244-259, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.001
Fowler, A.C., Spagnolo, M., Clark, C.D., Stokes, C.R., Hughes, A.L.C., Dunlop, P. 2013. On the size and shape of drumlins. GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics.4, 155-165. doi:10.1007/s13137-013-0050-0
Hughes, A.L.C., Rainsley, E., Murray, T., Fogwill, C.J., Schnabel, C., Xu, S. 2012. Rapid response of Helheim Glacier, southeast Greenaland, to early Holocene climate warming. Geology, 40, 427-430. doi: 10.1130/G32730.1 Full text here
Bigg, G.R., Clark, C.D., Greenwood, S.L., Haflidason, H., Hughes, A.L.C., Levine, R.C., Nygård, A., Sejrup, H.P. 2012. Sensitivity of the North Atlantic circulation to break-up of the marine sectors of the NW European ice sheets during the last Glacial: A synthesis of modelling and palaeoceanography. Global and Planetary Change, 98-99, 153-165. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2012.09.004
Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C., Greenwood, S.L., Jordan, C.J., Sejrup, H-P. 2012. Pattern and timing of retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 44, 112-146. doi:10.1016/j.quatscirev.2010.07.019
Spagnolo, M., Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C. 2012. Drumlin relief. Geomorphology, 153-154, 179-191. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.02.023
Hughes, A.L.C., Greenwood, S.L., Clark, C.D. 2011. Dating constraints on the last British-Irish Ice Sheet: a map and database, Journal of Maps, v2011, 156-183. doi:10.4113/jom.2011.1145.
Spagnolo, M., Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C., Dunlop, P. 2011. The topography of drumlins; assessing their long profile shape. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36, 780-804. doi:10.1002/esp.2107
Hughes, A.L.C., Clark, C.D., Jordan, C.J. 2010. Subglacial bedforms of the last British Ice Sheet. Journal of Maps, v2010, 543-563. doi:10.4113/jom.2010.1111
Bigg, G.R., Levine, R.C., Clark, C.D., Greenwood, S.L., Haflidason, H., Hughes, A.L.C., Nygård, A., Sejrup, H.P. 2010. Last Glacial ice-rafted debris off south-western Europe: the role of the British-Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25, 689-699. doi:10.1022/jqs.1345
Murray, T., Scharrer, K., James, T.D., Dye, S.R., Hanna, E., Booth, A.D., Selmes, N., Luckman, A., Hughes, A.L.C., Cook, S., Huybrechts, P. 2010. Ocean regulation hypothesis for glacier dynamics in southeast Greenland and implications for ice sheet mass changes. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, F03026. doi:10.1029/2009JF001522
Spagnolo, M., Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C., Dunlop, P., Stokes, C.R. 2010. The planar shape of drumlins. Sedimnetary Geology, 232, 119-129. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2010.01.008
Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C., Greenwood, S.L., Spagnolo, M., Ng, F.S.L. 2009. Size and shape characteristics of drumlins, derived from a large sample, and associated scaling laws. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 677-692. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.08.035
Bigg, G.R., Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C. 2008. A last glacial ice sheet on the Pacific Russian coast and catastrophic change arising from coupled ice-volcanic interaction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265, 559-570. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.052
Greenwood, S.L., Clark, C.D., Hughes, A.L.C. 2007. Formalising an inversion methodology for the reconstruction of ice sheet retreat patterns from meltwater channels: application to the British Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 22, 637-645. doi:10.1002/jqs.1083
RISES Quantifying and understanding rates of ice sheet change
GLIMPSE Project, Swansea University
BRITICE CHRONO, University of Sheffield
2009 PhD ‘The last British Ice Sheet: a reconstruction based on glacial landforms’, University of Sheffield and British Geological Survey
2004 MSc Quaternary Science, University of London
2002 BSc Physical Geography, University of Sheffield