Dr Rachel Oien - Durham University

Dr Rachel Oien

Research interests

Palaeoglaciology, Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, Alpine, Cirque, and Mountain Glaciers, Palaeoclimatology, Greenland, Arctic, Scandinavia

Publications

Journal Article

Carrivick, J. L., Boston, C. M., Sutherland, J. L., Pearce, D., Armstrong, H., Bjørk, A., Kjeldsen, K. K., Abermann, J., Oien, R. P., Grimes, M., James, W. H. M., & Smith, M. W. (2023). Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), Article e2023GL103950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103950
Barr, I. D., Spagnolo, M., Rea, B. R., Bingham, R. G., Oien, R. P., Adamson, K., Ely, J. C., Mullan, D. J., Pellitero, R., & Tomkins, M. D. (2022). 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33310-z
Oien, R. P., Barr, I. D., Spagnolo, M., Bingham, R. G., Rea, B. R., & Jansen, J. (2022). Controls on the altitude of Scandinavian cirques: What do they tell us about palaeoclimate?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 600, 111062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111062
Oien, R. P., Rea, B. R., Spagnolo, M., Barr, I. D., & Bingham, R. G. (2022). Testing the area–altitude balance ratio (AABR) and accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods of calculating glacier equilibrium-line altitudes. Journal of Glaciology, 68(268), 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.100
Kurjański, B., Rea, B. R., Spagnolo, M., Cornwell, D. G., Howell, J., Comte, J., González Quirós, A., Palmu, J., Oien, R. P., & Gibbard, P. L. (2021). Cool deltas: Sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical characterization of ice‐contact deltas and implications for their reservoir properties (Salpausselkä, Finland). Sedimentology, 68(7), 3057-3101. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12884
Oien, R. P., Spagnolo, M., Rea, B. R., Barr, I. D., & Bingham, R. G. (2020). Climatic controls on the equilibrium-line altitudes of Scandinavian cirque glaciers. Geomorphology, 352, Article 106986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106986