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Darrel Swift
PhD candidate (completed 2002)

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Research title

Provenance of suspended sediment in subglacial drainage systems.

Recent publications | View all publications >>

Swift, D.A. in press. Haut Glacier d’Arolla, Switzerland: Hydrological controls on subglacial sediment evacuation and glacial erosional capacity. In Knight, P. G. (ed.) Glacier Science and Environmental Change, Blackwell.

Swift, D.A., Evans, D.J.A. and Fallick, A.E. in press. Transverse englacial debris-rich ice bands at Kvíárjökull, southeast Iceland. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.01.003 >>

Swift, D.A., Nienow, P.W. and Hoey, T.B. 2005. Basal sediment evacuation by subglacial meltwater: suspended sediment transport from Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v.30 (7), 867-883. doi:10.1002/esp.1197 >>

Recent research grants | View all grants >>

Swift, D.A. 2005. Influence of glacier-bed geometry on subglacial hydrology and basal ice provenance at Svínafellsjökull, southeast Iceland, £1,320 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland).

Swift, D.A. 2003–2006. Antiquity and severity of glacial erosion in Greenland, £97,464 (BP Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship). Collaborators: Prof Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow), Dr Finlay M. Stuart (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), East Kilbride) and Dr Cristina Persano (Glasgow).

Swift, D.A. 2002. Formation of basal ice at Kvíárjökull, southeast Iceland, £1,200 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland).

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