Dr Tom Cowton

Dr Tom Cowton

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2469
Email
Tom.Cowton@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Research areas

Dr Cowton's research focusses on the mechanisms controlling the response of glaciers, and in the particular the Greenland Ice Sheet, to climate change. Through a combination of field, modelling and remote sensing techniques, he has published research on themes including ice sheet hydrology, tidewater glacier processes and the physical oceanography of fjord systems.

PhD supervision

  • EmmaÌýCameron
  • AnushaÌýGoswami
  • WilliamÌýSpicer

Selected publications

  • Open access
    Mas e Braga, M., Cowton, T., Slater, D., Inall, M., Johnstone, E. & Fraser, N., 16 Sept 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 17, 10 p., e2025GL116902.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Slater, D. A., Johnsone, E., Mas e Braga, M., Fraser, N. J., Cowton, T. & Inall, M., 21 Oct 2025, In: Geoscientific Model Development. 18, 20, p. 7475-7500 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Cowton, T., Slater, D. & Inall, M., 29 Jul 2023, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 15, 10 p., e2023GL103801.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Davison, B., Cowton, T., Sole, A., Cottier, F. & Nienow, P., 7 Apr 2022, In: The Cryosphere. 16, 4, p. 1181–1196

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Goliber, S., Black, T., Catania, G., Lea, J., Olsen, H., Cheng, D., Bevan, S., Bjork, A., Bunce, C., Brough, S., Carr, R., Cowton, T., Gardner, A., Fahrner, D., Hill, E., Joughin, I., Korsgaard, N., Luckman, A., Moon, T. & Murray, T. & 3 others, Sole, A., Wood, M. & Zhang, E., 12 Aug 2022, In: The Cryosphere. 16, p. 3215–3233 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Slater, D. A., Benn, D. I., Cowton, T. R., Bassis, J. N. & Todd, J. A., 9 Jul 2021, In: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. 126, 7, e2021JF006191.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Davison, B., Cowton, T., Cottier, F. & Sole, A., 25 Nov 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 13 p., 5983.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Bunce, C., Nienow, P., Sole, A., Cowton, T. & Davison, B., 29 Dec 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Glaciology. First View, 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Davison, B., Sole, A. J., Cowton, T., Lea, J., Slater, D. A., Fahrner, D. & Nienow, P., Sept 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface. 125, 9, 16 p., e2019JF005492.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Open access
    Bevan, S., Luckman, A., Benn, D. I., Cowton, T. & Todd, J., 5 Sept 2019, In: The Cryosphere. 13, p. 2303-2315 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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