Professor Benjamin Brock

Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

EE Benbrock Staffprofile 255 I am a physical geographer with expertise in the following areas:

Glacier-climate relationships
Remote sensing and numerical melt modelling of snow and ice masses
Meteorology and water resources in upland environments
Debris-covered glaciers
Volcano-ice interactions
Quaternary evolution of glaciated landscapes

1995 – 1996 Affiliated Lecturer in Geography, University of Cambridge.

1996 – 2011 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Geography, University of Dundee.

2011 – Present Reader in Remote Sensing, Northumbria University

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Key Publications

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DCG-MIP: the Debris-Covered Glacier melt Model Intercomparison exPeriment, Pellicciotti, F., Fontrodona-Bach, A., Rounce, D., Fyffe, C., Anderson, L., Ayala, Á., Brock, B., Buri, P., Fugger, S., Fujita, K., Gantayat, P., Groos, A., Immerzeel, W., Kneib, M., Mayer, C., MacDonell, S., McCarthy, M., McPhee, J., Miles, E., Purdie, H., Rets, E., Sakai, A., Shaw, T., Steiner, J., Wagnon, P., Winter-Billington, A. 2 Apr 2026, In: The Cryosphere
Glacier-Atmosphere Interactions and Feedbacks in High-Mountain Regions - A Review, Sauter, T., Brock, B., Collier, E., Goger, B., Groos, A., Haualand, K., Mott, R., Nicholson, L., Prinz, R., Shaw, T., Stiperski, I., Georgi, A., Haugeneder, M., Mandal, A., Reynolds, D., Saigger, M., Sicart, J., Voordendag, A. 1 Mar 2026, In: Reviews of Geophysics
Mountain glaciers recouple to atmospheric warming over the twenty-first century, Shaw, T., Miles, E., McCarthy, M., Buri, P., Guyennon, N., Salerno, F., Carturan, L., Brock, B., Pellicciotti, F. 1 Nov 2025, In: Nature Climate Change
The second HinterEisFerner EXperiment (HEFEX II): Initial insights into boundary layer structure and surface-atmosphere exchange processes from intensive observations at a valley glacier, Nicholson, L., Stiperski, I., Nitti, G., Prinz, R., Georgi, A., Groos, A., Shaw, T., Sauter, T., Haugeneder, M., Mott, R., Sicart, J., Brock, B., Albers, R., Allegri, B., Barral, H., Biron, R., Charrondiere, C., Coulaud, C., Fischer, A., Reynolds, D., Richter, N., Schroeder, M., Vettori, P., Voordendag, A., Wydra, C. 1 Oct 2025, In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Debris cover effects on energy and mass balance of Batura Glacier in the Karakoram over the past 20 years, Zhu, Y., Liu, S., Brock, B., Tian, L., Yi, Y., Xie, F., Shangguan, D., Shen, Y. 7 May 2024, In: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Carbon flux in supraglacial debris over two ablation seasons at Miage Glacier, Mont Blanc massif, European Alps, Brown, G., Brock, B. 5 Jul 2023, In: Frontiers in Earth Science
Using climate reanalysis data in conjunction with multi-temporal satellite thermal imagery to derive supraglacial debris thickness changes from energy balance modelling, Stewart, R., Westoby, M., Pellicciotti, F., Rowan, A., Swift, D., Brock, B., Woodward, J. 1 Apr 2021, In: Journal of Glaciology
Geomorphological evolution of a debris‐covered glacier surface, Westoby, M., Rounce, D., Shaw, T., Fyffe, C., Moore, P., Stewart, R., Brock, B. 1 Nov 2020, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
Inter‐annual variability in snow cover depletion patterns and atmospheric circulation indices in the Upper Irtysh basin, Central Asia, Fugazza, D., Shaw, T., Mashtayeva, S., Brock, B. 30 Aug 2020, In: Hydrological Processes
Modelling spatial patterns of near-surface air temperature over a decade of melt seasons on McCall Glacier, Alaska, Troxler, P., Ayala, Á., Shaw, T., Nolan, M., Brock, B., Pellicciotti, F. 1 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Glaciology