Brief Career History

2005 - present
Chair in Glaciology and Leader of Swansea Glaciology Group. I am currently also Research Director for the School of the Environment and Society

2008
Walter Bean Visiting Professorship, University of Waterloo, Canada

2007-8
Bullerwell Lectures, British Geophysical Association, which are presented by an "outstanding, young British Geophysicist"

2007
Swansea University nomination for "Welsh Woman of the Year" (Science & Technology)

2007 - 12
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award, awarded to researchers of "exceptional quality" for research that will result in "changing of the traditional landscape of research disciplines"

2007
Awarded Polar Medal by HM Queen for "outstanding service to Polar Research"

2006
AGU Union Lecture, Near surface geophysics

2004 - 5
Chair in Glaciology, University of Leeds

2004 - 5
Leverhulme Research Fellowship, "Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica"

2002 - 4
Reader in Glaciology, University of Leeds

2000
British Geomorphological Research Group Warwick Award for "glaciological research, in particular the ground-breaking use of geophysical techniques"

1993 - 2002
Senior Lecturer and Lecturer, University of Leeds

Current research projects

• SLICES 2004-7. Changes in glacier geometry and extent in Svalbard: implications for sea level rise during the 20th and 21st centuries, NERC, with S. Barr, P. Clarke, M. King, J. Mills all Univ. Newcastle, A. Luckman Univ. Wales Swansea, T. Payne, J. Wadham Univ. Bristol, NE/B505203/1, £250k.
• Effect of the spatial variability of physical parameters on the rheology of temperate glaciers and their modelled response to climate change 2004-7. NERC, with B. Hubbard, Univ. Wales, Aberystwyth, H. Mader, Univ. Bristol, A. Endres, Univ. Waterloo, Canada, L.J. West, Leeds, NER/A/S/2002/01000, £188k.
• RABID 2004-9. Basal conditions on Rutford Ice Stream: Hot water drilling and downhole instrumentation, with A.M. Smith, BAS, NERC AFI GR3/G005B, £505k.
• GLIMPSE 2007-12. Stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award, £800k.
  

Some recent publications (2005 onwards)

• Hambrey, M.J., Murray, T., Glasser, N.F., Hubbard, A., Hubbard, B., Stuart, G.W. and Hansen, S. Structure and changing dynamics of a polythermal valley glacier on a centennial time-scale: midre Lovénbreen, Svalbard, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, F01006, doi:10.1029/2004JF000128, 2005.
• Luckman, A. and Murray, T. Change in flow mechanism and dynamics before retreat of Jakobshavn Isbræ, Greenland, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L08501, doi:10.1029/2005GL022519, 2005.
• Kilner, M., West, L.J. and Murray, T. Characterisation of glacial sediments using geophysical methods for groundwater source protection, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 57(4), 293-305, 2005.
• Pritchard, H., Murray, T., Luckman, A, Strozzi, T. and Barr, S. Glacier surge dynamics of Sortebræ, East Greenland, from synthetic aperture radar feature tracking, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, F03005, doi:10.1029/2004JF000233, 2005.
• Lockwood, R.A., Murray, T., Stuart, G.W. and Scudder, L. Locating leaks from water supply pipes using the passive acoustic method, Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology, 54(8), 519-530, 2005.
• Stuart, G.W., Murray, T., Brisbourne, A., Styles, P. and Toon, S. Acoustic emissions from a surging glacier: Bakaninbreen, Svalbard, Annals of Glaciology, 42, 151-157, 2005.
• Luckman, A., Murray, T., de Lange, R., Hanna, E. Rapid and synchronous ice-dynamic changes in East Greenland. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L03503, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025428, 2006.
• Kulessa, B., Murray, T. and Rippin, D. Active seismoelectric exploration of glaciers. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07503, doi:10.1029/2006GL025758, 2006.
• Murray, T., Greenland’s ice on the scales. Nature, 443(7109), 277-278, 2006.
• James, T.D., Murray, T., Barrand, N.E. and Barr, S.L. Extracting photogrammetric ground control from lidar DEMs for change detection. Photogrammetric Record, 21(116), 310-326, 2006.
• Barrand, N.E. and Murray, T. Multivariate controls on the incidence of glacier surging in the Karakoram Himalaya. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 38(4), 489-498, 2006.
• Smith, A.M., Murray, T., Nicholls, K.W., Makinson, K., Aðalgeirsdóttir, G., Behar, A. and Vaughan, D.G. Rapid erosion and drumlin formation observed beneath a fast-flowing Antarctic ice stream. Geology, 127-130, 2007. (British Antarctic Survey “Paper of the month”, March 2007).
• Murray, T., Booth, A. and Rippin, D. Limitations of glacier ice-water content estimated using velocity analysis of surface ground-penetrating radar surveys. Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 12: 87-99, 2007.
• Barrett, B.E., Murray, T. and Clark, R. Errors in radar CMP velocity estimates due to survey geometry, and their implication for ice water content estimation, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 12: 101-111, 2007.
• West, L.J., Rippin, D. and Murray, T. TDR probes for measuring dielectric permittivity of glacial ice cores: design and performance, Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, 12: 37-45, 2007.
• de Lange, R., Luckman, A. and Murray, T. Improvement of satellite radar feature tracking for ice velocity derivation by spatial frequency filtering. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 10.1109/TGRS.2007.896615, 2007.
• Bevan, S., Luckman, A., Murray, T., Sykes, H. and Kohler, J. Positive mass balance on an Arctic ice cap revealed using satellite radar interferometry. Annals of Glaciology, 46, 117-122, 2007.
• Pope, A., Murray, T. and Luckman, A. DEM quality assessment for quantification of glacier surface change. Annals of Glaciology, 46, 189-194, 2007.
• Kohler, J., James, T.D., Murray, T., Nuth, C., Brandt, O., Barrand, N.E., Aas, H.F. and Luckman, A. Acceleration in thinning rate on western Svalbard glaciers, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L18502, 10.1029/2007GL030681, 2007.
• Murray, T., King, M.A., Smith, A.M. and Weedon, G. Ice flow modulated by tides at up to annual periods at Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L18503, 10.1029/2007GL031207, 2007.