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Professor John Woodward

Pro Vice-Chancellor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

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  • Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor - present
  • Faculty Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) - to 2018
  • Associate Dean Research and Innovation, 2013-present.
  • Professor of Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2012–present.
  • Director of Research, Department of Geography, 2010-2013.
  • Reader in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2008–2012.
  • Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2003–2008.
  • Research Associate, British Antarctic Survey, 2002-2003.
  • Lecturer in Physical Geography, Brunel University, 2001-2002.
  • PDRA, University of Leeds, 2000-2001.
  • PhD, University of Leeds, 1996-2000.
  • MSc, University of Alberta, Canada, 1994-1996.
  • BSc, University of Leeds and University of Liege, Belgium, 1991-1994.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Glacial geology of the Hudson Mountains, Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica, Johnson, J., Nichols, K., Riley, T., Venturelli, R., Hodgson, D., Balco, G., Hall, B., Smith, J., Woodward, J. 3 Jan 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Lessons learned from shallow subglacial bedrock drilling campaigns in Antarctica, Braddock, S., Venturelli, R., Nichols, K., Moravec, E., Boeckmann, G., Campbell, S., Balco, G., Ackert, R., Small, D., Johnson, J., Dunbar, N., Woodward, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Goehring, B. 1 Jan 2025, In: Annals of Glaciology
  • Detecting Holocene retreat and readvance in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica: assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 23 May 2024
  • Direct geologic constraints on the timing of Late Holocene ice thickening in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, Nichols, K., Adams, J., Brown, K., Creel, R., McKenzie, M., Venturelli, R., Johnson, J., Rood, D., Wilcken, K., Woodward, J., Roberts, S. 28 Dec 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters
  • Geochemical evidence for Alberta Oil Sands contamination in sediments remote to known oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, McCerery, B., Esegbue, O., Jones, M., Winter, K., McHale, G., Woodward, J. 3 May 2024, In: Environmental Forensics
  • Ground-penetrating radar surveys at three nunataks in the Hudson Mountains in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica, December 2019, Woodward, J., Johnson, J. 2 May 2024
  • Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard, McCerery, R., Davies, B., Lovell, H., Pearce, D., Calvo Ryan, R., Małecki, J., Woodward, J. 31 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Maps
  • Canopy structure and air temperature inversions impact simulation of sub-canopy longwave radiation in snow-covered boreal forests, Rutter, N., Essery, R., Baxter, R., Hancock, S., Horton, M., Huntley, B., Reid, T., Woodward, J. 27 Jul 2023, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
  • High altitude Pliocene to Pleistocene vegetation and climate change of the Kunlun Pass Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, Schwarz, F., Salzmann, U., Cheng, F., Ni, J., Nie, J., Patchett, M., Li, X., Li, L., Woodward, J., Garzione, C. 1 Apr 2023, In: Global and Planetary Change
  • Offshore-onshore record of Last Glacial Maximum−to−present grounding line retreat at Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, Nichols, K., Rood, D., Venturelli, R., Balco, G., Adams, J., Guillaume, L., Campbell, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Wilcken, K., Woodward, J., Johnson, J. 1 Nov 2023, In: Geology

  • Teaching & Learning PCAPL November 04 2004
  • Geography PhD September 01 1995
  • Geography BSc (Hons) September 01 1990
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015
  • Approved Shotfirer EPIC Shotfirer & Explosives Supervisors 2002
  • Ordinary Member International Glaciological Society (IGS) 1996


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