Staff profile

I am a glacial geologist and Quaternary scientist, interested in glacial and glacially-influenced sedimentation and the reconstruction of ice sheets. I have a background in glacial sedimentology, initially from terrestrial glacigenic envronments but subsequently evolving into the use of marine geology and geophysics to reconstruct ice sheet behaviour and sedimentation. I have worked extensively in the polar regions, in both the Arctic (Greenland, Arctic Canada, Svalbard, Norwegian-Greenland Sea) and Antarctic. I also have a long-standing active research interest spanning several decades in the history of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. The central theme of my research is ice-sheet reconstruction from geological, geomorphological and geophysical evidence. 

I have been awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association and the Lyell Fund by the Geological Society. I am currently an Editor for the journal Quaternary Science Reviews and previously have been an Editor for The Cryosphere. I am the Geology representative for the RRS Sir David Attenborough Science Commisioning Group.

Research Interests

• Glacial sedimentology
• Ice sheet reconstruction from marine and terrestrial records
• Processes, patterns and deposits of glacimarine sedimentation on polar continental margins.
• Late Quaternary history of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• Quaternary ice sheet-ocean interaction from marine sedimentary archives
• The history of the British-Irish Ice Sheet 

Past and current research grants:

• 2024-2027 NERC (NE/V007289/1). ‘Assessing ocean-forced, marine-terminating glacier change in Greenland during climatic warm periods and its impact on marine productivity (Kang-Glac)’ https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/kang-glac/. 
• 2022-2024 NERC (NE/W009986/1). ‘Inception, growth and decay of the British-Irish Ice Sheet’. NERC/IODP Site Survey. 
• 2016-2020 NERC (NE/N011228/1). ‘Greenland in a warmer climate: What controls the advance & retreat of the NE Greenland Ice Stream?’
• 2013-2017. EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network on ‘Glaciated North Atlantic Margins (GLANAM)’. https://www.glanam.org/
• 2012-2017 NERC (NE/J007196/1). ‘BRITICE-CHRONO: Constraining rates and style of marine-influenced ice sheet decay’. https://britice-chrono.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/
• 2010-2012 NERC (NE/G015430/1) ‘Understanding marine ice stream retreat using numerical modelling and geophysical data'.
• 2007-2010 NERC (NE/D001951/1). ‘Marine geophysical and geological investigation of past flow and stability of a major Greenland ice stream in the Late Quaternary’. 
• 2004-2008 NERC (NE/B501171/1).’Investigating physical process at ice stream beds: integrating modern and palaeo-ice stream records’.

Postgraduate Student Supervision (all joint supervision)

• 2021. Georgia Ware (MSc research, Durham). Sedimentary  signatures of ice stream advance and retreat on the northeast Greenland continental shelf.
• 2020. Brendan O’Neill (MSc, Durham). The role of ocean forcing in early deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum.
• 2018. Peter Codling (MSc, Durham). Late Quaternary ice sheet dynamics and palaeoceanography in the Baffin Bay region.
• 2018. Jennifer Horrocks (PhD, Durham). Reconstruction of West Antarctic Ice Sheet history from marine sedimentary archives.
• 2017. Kasper Weilbach PhD, Durham). Late Quaternary glaciation of the continental shelf offshore of NW Ireland.
• 2017. Katharina Streuff (PhD, Durham Glacimarine sedimentary processes and products at fjord-terminating (tidewater) glacier margins.
• 2017. Ed Pope (PhD, Durham). Frequency and triggering mechanisms of submarine mass movements and their geohazard implications.
• 2017. Hannah Bickerdike (PhD, Durham). Reconstructing the maximum extent and timing of Loch Lomond stade glaciers in mainland Britain.
• 2016. Sophie Norris (MSc, Durham). Palaeo-ice stream geomorphology and till stratigraphy, southern Saskatchewan, Canada.
• 2013. Catriona Purcell (MSc, Durham). Late Quaternary glaciation of the continental shelf offshore of NW Ireland.
• 2013. Ross Dunstone (MSc, research). Testing the groove-ploughing theory for Mega-Scale Glacial Lineation (MSGL) formation, using a large dataset of MSGL morphology.
• 2012. Victoria Brown (PhD, Durham). Ice stream dynamics at the north-western margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
• 2013. Tim Lane (PhD, Durham). Glacial history of the Uummannaq fjord system, western Greenland.
• 2009. Stephen Livingstone (PhD, Durham). Reconstructing ice dynamics in the central sector of the British-Irish ice Sheet during the Late Devensian.
• 2009. Nat Young (MSc, Durham). Glacial geomorphology and sedimentology of southern Alberta, Canada.
• 2008. Kate Staines (MSc, Durham). Sedimentology and geomorphology of palaeo-ice stream lateral margins, Cheviot Hills, NE England.
• 2008. Bethan Davies (PhD, Durham). British and Fennoscandian Ice Sheet Interactions during the Quaternary.
• 2007. Clare Boston (MSc, Durham). An examination of the geochemical properties of Late Devensian glacigenic sediments in Eastern England.
• 2005. Anna Nelson (PhD, Cambridge). A sedimentological investigation of glacigenic deposits in Iceland.

 

External PhD Supervision

• 2017. Kevin Schiele (PhD, University Ulster). Timing, forcing and onshore-offshore correlations on the western margin of the British-Irish Ice Sheet.
• 2017. Riccardo Arosio (PhD, University of the Highlands and Islands). The Hebrides Ice Stream (HIS) and the deglaciation of the Hebrides shelf and Firth of Lorn, western Scotland, UK.
• 2016. Jared Peters (PhD, Ulster University). The extent, palaeoenvironments and timing of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet offshore of west Ireland.
• 2012. Fabio Sachetti (PhD, Ulster University). Late Quaternary sedimentation associated with the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the NW Irish continental slope: a marine geological and geophysical investigation.
• 2013. Andrew Turner (PhD, Northumbria University). Geophysical investigations of Scottish Lochs

 

Citation Information

• Citation Information (Google Scholar)

Chapter in book

• ÓCofaigh, C. (2013). Glacimarine Sediments and Ice-Rafted Debris. In S. Elias, & C. Mock (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (932-945). (2nd). Elsevier
• Ó Cofaigh, C., & Bentley, M. (2007). Late Quaternary Relative Sea Level Changes in High-Latitudes. In S. Elias (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (3052-3064). Elsevier
• Ó Cofaigh, C. (2004). Tunnel Valleys. In A. Goudie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (1074-1075). Routledge
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D., & England, J. (2003). Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: sub-polar glacier margins of the Canadian and Greenland high arctic. In D. Evans (Ed.), Glacial Landsystems (44-64). Hodder Arnold
• Dowdeswell, J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2002). Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins: introduction and overview. In J. Dowdeswell, & C. Ó Cofaigh (Eds.), Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins (1-9). The Geological Society
• Taylor, J., Dowdeswell, J., Kenyon, N., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2002). Late Quaternary architecture of trough-mouth fans: debris flows and suspended sediments on the Norwegian margin. In J. Dowdenswell, & C. Ó Cofaigh (Eds.), Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins (55-71). The Geological Society
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Taylor, J., Dowdeswell, J., Rosell-Mele, A., Kenyon, N., Evans, J., & Mienert, J. (2002). Sediment reworking on high-latitude continental margins and its implications for palaeoceanographic studies: insights from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea. In J. Dowdeswell, & C. Ó Cofaigh (Eds.), Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins (325-348). The Geological Society
• Talling, P., Peakall, J., Sparks, R., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J., Felix, M., …Weaver, P. (2002). Experimental constraints on shear mixing rates and processes: implications for the dilution of submarine debris flows. In J. Dowdeswell, & C. Ó Cofaigh (Eds.), Glacier-Influenced Sedimentation on High-Latitude Continental Margins (89-103). Geological Society
• Dowdeswell, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Taylor, J., Kenyon, N., Mienert, J., & Wilken, M. (2002). On the architecture of high-latitude continental margins: the influence of ice-sheet and sea-ice proceses in the Polar North Atlantic. In J. Dowdeswell, & C. Ó Cofaigh (Eds.), Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins (33-54). The Geological Society

Edited book

• Dowdeswell, J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (Eds.). (2002). Glacier-influenced sedimentation on high-latitude continental margins. The Geological Society

Journal Article

• Lane, T., Darvill, C., Rea, B., Bentley, M., Smith, J., Jamieson, S., …Roberts, D. (2023). The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(7), 1321-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5552
• Lloyd, J., Ribeiro, S., Weckström, K., Callard, L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Leng, M., …Roberts, D. (2023). Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108068
• Ownsworth, E., Selby, D., Lloyd, J., Knutz, P., Szidat, S., Andrews, J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2023). Tracking sediment delivery to central Baffin Bay during the past 40 kyrs: Insights from a multiproxy approach and new age model. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108082
• Smith, J. A., Callard, L., Bentley, M. J., Jamieson, S. S., Sánchez-Montes, M. L., Lane, T. P., …Roberts, D. H. (2023). Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments. The Cryosphere, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1247-2023
• Clark, C. D., Ely, J. C., Hindmarsh, R. C., Bradley, S., Ignéczi, A., Fabel, D., …Wilson, P. (2022). Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 51(4), 699-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12594
• Giglio, C., Benetti, S., Plets, R., Dunlop, P., Ó Cofaigh, C., Sacchetti, F., & Salomon, E. (2022). Character of advance and retreat of the southwest sector of the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 291, Article 107655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107655
• Streuff, K. T., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Wintersteller, P. (2022). GlaciDat – a GIS database of submarine glacial landforms and sediments in the Arctic. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 51(3), 517-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12577
• Hogan, K., Arnold, N., Larter, R., Kirkham, J., Noormets, R., Ó Cofaigh, C., …Dowdeswell, J. (2022). Subglacial Water Flow Over an Antarctic Palaeo‐Ice Stream Bed. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 127(2), Article e2021JF006442. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jf006442
• Giglio, C., Benetti, S., Sacchetti, F., Lockhart, E., Hughes Clarke, J., Plets, R., …Dunlop, P. (2022). A Late Pleistocene channelized subglacial meltwater system on the Atlantic continental shelf south of Ireland. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 51(1), 118-135. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12536
• Bradwell, T., Fabel, D., Clark, C. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Small, D., Smedley, R. K., …Ó Cofaigh, C. (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45 000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 871 - 933. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3296
• Clark, C. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Fabel, D., Hindmarsh, R. C., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Scourse, J. D. (2021). Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE‐CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 673-680. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3326
• Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Cofaigh, C. Ó., Burke, M., Medialdea, A., Small, D., …Weilbach, K. (2021). Exploring controls of the early and stepped deglaciation on the western margin of the British Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 833 - 870. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3315
• Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Clark, C. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Saher, M. H., …Ó Cofaigh, C. (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet retreat: Shetland and northern North Sea sector. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 681-722. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3163
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Callrd, S., Roberts, D., Chiverrell, R., Ballantyne, C., Evans, D., …Sacchetti, F. (2021). Timing and pace of ice-sheet withdrawal across the marine-terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 805-832. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3295
• Scourse, J., Chiverrell, R., Smedley, R., Small, D., Burke, M., Saher, M., …Clark, C. (2021). Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3313
• Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Ballantyne, C., Burke, M., Chiverrell, R., Evans, D., …Callard, S. (2020). The deglaciation of the western sector of the Irish Ice Sheet from the inner continental shelf to its terrestrial margin. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 49(3), 438-460. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12448
• Callard, S. L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R. C., Van Landeghem, K. J., Saher, M. H., …Moreton, S. G. (2020). Oscillating retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf offshore Galway Bay, western Ireland. Marine Geology, 420, Article 106087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106087
• Tarlati, S., Benetti, S., Callard, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dunlop, P., Georgiopoulou, A., …Clark, C. (2020). Final deglaciation of the Malin Sea through meltwater release and calving events. Scottish Journal of Geology, 56(2), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2019-010
• Davies, B., Livingstone, S., Roberts, D., Evans, D., Gheorghiu, D., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, Article 105989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105989
• Pope, E. L., Normandeau, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C. R., & Talling, P. J. (2019). Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets. Marine Geology, 415, Article 105951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.05.010
• Roberts, D. H., Grimoldi, E., Callard, L., Evans, D. J., Clark, C. D., Stewart, H. A., …Medialdea, A. (2019). The mixed‐bed glacial landform imprint of the North Sea Lobe in the western North Sea. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(6), 1233-1258. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4569
• Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Smedley, R. K., Clark, C. C., Saher, M. H., …Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength. Science Advances, 5(4), Article eaau1380. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau1380
• Scourse, J., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K. J., Lockhart, E., Purcell, C., Callard, L., …Clark, C. D. (2019). Advance and retreat of the marine-terminating Irish Sea Ice Stream into the Celtic Sea during the last glacial: Timing and maximum extent. Marine Geology, 412, 53-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.03.003
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Weilbach, K., Lloyd, J., Benetti, S., Callard, S., Purcell, R., …Fabel, D. (2019). Early deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet on the Atlantic shelf northwest of Ireland driven by glacioisostatic depression and high relative sea level. Quaternary Science Reviews, 208, 76-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.022
• Callard, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Chiverrell, R., Van Landeghem, K., Saher, M., …Moreton, S. (2018). Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 280-302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.002
• Chiverrell, R., Smedley, R., Small, D., Ballantyne, C., Burke, M., Callard, S., …Wilson, P. (2018). Ice margin oscillations during deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(7), 739-762. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3057
• Roberts, D. H., Evans, D. J., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Bateman, M. D., Medialdea, A., …Bradwell, T. (2018). Ice marginal dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the southern North Sea: Ice limits, timing and the influence of the Dogger Bank. Quaternary Science Reviews, 198, 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.010
• Lockhart, E. A., Scourse, J. D., Praeg, D., Van Landeghem, K. J., Mellett, C., Saher, M., …Clark, C. D. (2018). A stratigraphic investigation of the Celtic Sea megaridges based on seismic and core data from the Irish-UK sectors. Quaternary Science Reviews, 198, 156-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.029
• Barlow, N., McClymont, E., Whitehouse, P., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Woodroffe, S., …Sanchez-Montes, M. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 11, 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0195-4
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Hogan, K. A., Jennings, A. E., Callard, S. L., Dowdeswell, J. A., Noormets, R., & Evans, J. (2018). The role of meltwater in high-latitude trough-mouth fan development: The Disko Trough-Mouth Fan, West Greenland. Marine Geology, 402, 17-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.02.001
• Hofmann, J. C., Knutz, P. C., Kjær, K. H., Nielsen, T., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2018). Glacial and submarine processes on the shelf margin of the Disko Bay trough Mouth Fan. Marine Geology, 402, 33-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.12.001
• Streuff, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R., & Lloyd, J. (2018). Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes in front of Spitsbergen tidewater glaciers. Marine Geology, 402, 209-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.09.006
• Jennings, A., Andrews, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., St-Onge, G., Belt, S., Cabedo-Sanz, P., …Campbell, C. (2018). Baffin Bay paleoenvironments in the LGM and HS1: Resolving the ice-shelf question. Marine Geology, 402, 5-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.09.002
• Arosio, R., Dove, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Howe, J. A. (2018). Submarine deglacial sediment and geomorphological record of southwestern Scotland after the Last Glacial Maximum. Marine Geology, 403, 62-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.04.012
• McCarron, S., Praeg, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Monteys, X., Thébaudeau, B., Craven, K., …Cova, A. (2018). A Plio-Pleistocene sediment wedge on the continental shelf west of central Ireland: The Connemara Fan. Marine Geology, 399, 97-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.02.009
• Pope, E. L., Talling, P. J., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2018). The relationship between ice sheets and submarine mass movements in the Nordic Seas during the Quaternary. Earth-Science Reviews, 178, 208-256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.01.007
• Bickerdike, H., Evans, D., Stokes, C., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2018). The Glacial Geomorphology of the Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial in Britain: a review. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(1), 1-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3010
• Bickerdike, H., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D., & Stokes, C. (2018). Glacial landsystems, retreat dynamics and controls on Loch Lomond Stadial (Younger Dryas) glaciation in Britain. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 47(1), 202-224. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12259
• Morlighem, M., Williams, C., Rignot, E., An, L., Arndt, J., Bamber, J., …Zinglersen, K. (2017). BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(21), 11,051-11,061. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gl074954
• Jennings, A., Andrews, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., St Onge, G., Sheldon, C., Belt, S., …Hillaire-Marcel, C. (2017). Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.007
• Streuff, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R., & Lloyd, J. (2017). Submarine Landforms and Glacimarine Sedimentary Processes in Lomfjorden, East Spitsbergen. Marine Geology, 390, 51-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.04.014
• Streuff, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Hogan, K., Jennings, A., Lloyd, J. M., Noormets, R., …Weinrebe, W. (2017). Seafloor geomorphology and glacimarine sedimentation associated with fast-flowing ice sheet outlet glaciers in Disko Bay, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 169, 206-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.05.021
• Garcia, M., Dowdeswell, J., Noormets, R., Hogan, K., Evans, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., & LArter, R. (2016). Geomorphic and shallow-acoustic investigation of an Antarctic Peninsula fjord system using high-resolution ROV and shipboard geophysical observations: ice dynamics and behaviour since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 153, 122-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.014
• Bickerdike, H., Evans, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Stokes, C. (2016). The glacial geomorphology of the Loch Lomond Stadial in Britain: a map and geographic information system resource of published evidence. Journal of Maps, 12(5), 1178-1186. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2016.1145149
• Hogan, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Jennings, A., Dowdeswell, J., & Hiemstra, J. (2016). Deglaciation of a major palaeo-ice stream in Disko Trough, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 147, 5-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.018
• Sheldon, C., Jennings, A., Andrews, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Hogan, K., Dowdeswell, J., & Seidenkrantz, M. (2016). Ice Stream retreat following the LGM and onset of the West Greenland Current in Uummannaq Trough, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 147, 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.019
• Peters, J., Benetti, S., Dunlop, P., Ó Cofaigh, C., Moreton, S., Wheeler, A., & Clark, C. (2016). Sedimentology and chronology of the advance and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf west of Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 140, 101-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.012
• Livingstone, S., Stokes, C., O Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C., Vieli, A., Jamieson, S., …Dowdeswell, J. (2016). Subglacial processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed. 1: Sediment transport and bedform genesis inferred from marine geophysical data. Journal of Glaciology, 62(232), 270-284. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.18
• Jamieson, S., Stokes, C., Livingstone, S., Vieli, A., Ò Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C., & Spagnolo, M. (2016). Subglacial processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed. 2: Can modelled ice dynamics explain the morphology of mega-scale glacial lineations?. Journal of Glaciology, 62(232), 285-298. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.19
• Rignot, E., Fenty, I., Xu, Y., Cai, C., Velicogna, I., Ó Cofaigh, C., …Duncan, D. (2016). Bathymetry data reveal glaciers vulnerable to ice-ocean interaction in Uummannaq and Vaigat glacial fjords, West Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(6), 2667-2674. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016gl067832
• Streuff, K., Forwick, M., Szczuciński, W., Andreassen, K., & O'Cofaigh, C. (2015). Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes related to glacier surging in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Arktos (Cham. Internet), 1, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41063-015-0003-y
• Peters, J., Benetti, S., Dunlop, P., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2015). Maximum extent and dynamic behaviour of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet west of Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 128, 48-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.015
• Livingstone, S., Roberts, D., Davies, B., Evans, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Gheorghiu, D. (2015). Late Devensian deglaciation of the Tyne Gap Palaeo-Ice Stream, northern England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30(8), 790-804. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2813
• Gallagher, C., Telfer, M., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2015). A Marine Isotope Stage 4 age for Pleistocene raised beach deposits near Fethard, southern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30(8), 754-763. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2808
• Praeg, D., McCarron, S., Dove, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Scott, G., Monteys, X., …Coxon, P. (2015). Ice sheet extension to the Celtic Sea shelf edge at the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 111, 107-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.12.010
• Larter, R., Anderson, J., Graham, A., Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C., Jakobsson, M., …Spiegel, C. (2014). Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100, 55-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.016
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