Skip navigation

Dr Kate Winter

Senior Lecturer

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Senior Lecturer in Extreme Envronments within the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University.

As an applied physical geographer I use ice penetrating radar and remotely sensed imagery to comprehend and characterise the subglacial environment (morphology, geology and hydrology) and flow dynamics of ice streams in Antarctica. I am particularly interested in the topographic controls on ice flow and the entrainment and transportation of sediment through the glacial system.

I am passionate about education and outreach. I develop and teach on various undergraduate modules, focussing on ice, climate, geology and science communication and I supervise research projects at all levels (undergraduate, masters and PhD). I work with the faculty education and outreach team NUSTEM to develop effective outreach initiatives for the wider public. 

Kate Winter

Campus Address

Ellison Building
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 24 Jan 2025, In: The Cryosphere
  • Super slippery surface concepts: A novel explanation for the dynamics and flow instability of glaciers and ice sheets, McCerery, R., Woodward, J., McHale, G., Winter, K. 2025, In: Journal of Glaciology
  • Dated radar-stratigraphy between Dome A and South Pole, East Antarctica: old ice potential and ice sheet history, Sanderson, R., Ross, N., Winter, K., Bingham, R., Callard, S., Jordan, T., Young, D. 18 Dec 2024, In: Journal 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
  • 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
  • Englacial architecture of Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica, Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Callard, S., Napoleoni, F., Ross, N., Jordan, T., Bingham, R. 20 Nov 2023, In: The Cryosphere
  • Oil sands in glacial till as a driver of fast flow and instability in the former Laurentide Ice Sheet: Alberta, Canada, McCerery, R., McHale, G., Woodward, J., Winter, K., Jones, M., Esegbue, O. 1 Dec 2023, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Blue-ice moraines formation in the Heritage Range, West Antarctica: Implications for ice sheet history and climate reconstruction, Woodward, J., Hein, A., Winter, K., Westoby, M., Marrero, S., Dunning, S., Lim, M., Rivera, A., Sugden, D. 1 Apr 2022, In: Quaternary Science Advances
  • Publisher Correction: Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate, Livingstone, S., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Mikucki, J., Björnsson, H., Bowling, J., Chu, W., Dow, C., Fricker, H., McMillan, M., Ng, F., Ross, N., Siegert, M., Siegfried, M., Sole, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
  • Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate, Livingstone, S., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R., Winter, K., Mikucki, J., Björnsson, H., Bowling, J., Chu, W., Dow, C., Fricker, H., McMillan, M., Ng, F., Ross, N., Siegert, M., Siegfried, M., Sole, A. 1 Feb 2022, In: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment

Holly Bartlett Suspended sediment export from the Greenland Ice Sheet Start Date: 11/04/2024

Key involvement with the scientific community:

  • Member of the Sceintific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) AntArchitecture working group: https://www.scar.org/science/antarchitecture/home/
  • Ad-hoc member for the Antarctic Place-names Committee:  https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/
  • Involved in the International Glaciological Society (IGS), where I co-hosted the British Branch Meeting at Northumbria University in 2019
  • Organiser of the Physical and Environmental Sciences Departmental Seminar Series at Northumbria University
  • Reviewer for various academic journals

  • PhD
  • MSc
  • BSc (Hons)


Latest News and Features

Staff and graduates from the Certificate of Public Involvement and Co-Production modules
The NUSTEM team: Professor Carol Davenport; Dr Antonio Portas; Annie Padwick; Jonathan Sanderson; Mel Horan and Joe Shimwell.
From l-r: North East Mayor, Kim McGuinness; Claire Malcolm, CEO, New Writing North; Cllr Karen Kilgour, Leader of Newcastle City Council.
Northumbria's Dr Rida Zia-ul-Mustafa, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Free-Space, pictured testing one of the CubeSats.
Honorary Graduates 2025
Image of a hand with stop written on it
More news
More events

Upcoming events

Society of Chemical Industry Electrochemistry Postgraduate Conference 2025
Understanding Clearing and Confirmation
UK Arctic Science Conference 2025
-

Back to top