Dr Stewart Jamieson, BSc, MSc, PhD

Contact Dr Stewart Jamieson (email at stewart.jamieson@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

My research focuses on understanding controls on ice sheet behaviour, long-term landscape evolution, topographic reconstruction and glacial geomorphology. In particular, I am interested in understanding and quantifying the impact that interactions between these large-scale processes have upon ice sheet behaviour. Geographically, my work centres upon Antarctica although I also have interests in Greenland, Norway, Canada, Patagonia and the Himalayas.

I use an approach that links numerical models of ice sheets, ice streams, tectonics and rivers to geological and geomorphological evidence for past system behaviour. A significant component of my model-based research is carried out using synthetic systems to understand the responses of ice sheets and ice streams to perturbations in bed conditions produced under conditions of glacial erosion and deposition.

My current project investigates the importance of glacial erosion and deposition for controlling the advance and retreat of marine-terminating ice streams. This builds upon a major component of my previous work which focused on determining how patterns of glacial landscape evolution under terrestrial ice sheets can perturb ice dynamics on timescales of hundreds to millions of years.

Long-term landscape evolution of Antarctica

Much of my work has focussed on understanding patterns of long-term landscape evolution in Antarctica. By making links between numerical models of ice behaviour and our knowledge of landsystems that were produced under ice in the Northern Hemisphere, I have been able to predict how Antarctica has been modified by its long-lived ice sheet. This has led to better understanding of long-term interactions between ice and the landscape in Antarctica. Read more.

I am also working on using our understanding of glacial erosion processes and patterns to reconstruct the former landscape of Antarctica. This work forms part of theANTscape project to generate a range of palaeotopographic maps of Antarctica over the past 130 Million Years (www.antscape.org). This work is sponsored by Past Antarctic Ice Sheets (PAIS) group of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Research Groups

Department of Geography

• Catchments and Rivers
• Hazards and Surface Change
• Sea Level, Ice and Climate

Research Projects

Department of Geography

• Glaciated North Atlantic Margins (GLANAM)
• Greenland in a Warmer Climate: What Controls the Advance & Retreat of the NE Greenland Ice Stream? (NEGIS)
• Understanding Marine Ice Stream Retreat Using Numerical Modelling and Geophysical Data

Research Interests

• Ice Sheet Modelling
• Glaciology
• Landscape Evolution

Selected Publications

Chapter in book

• Siegert, M.J., Jamieson, S.S.R. & White, D. (2018). Exploration of subsurface Antarctica: uncovering past changes and modern processes. In Exploration of subsurface Antarctica: uncovering past changes and modern processes. Siegert, M.J., Jamieson, S.S.R. & White, D. London: Geological Society of London. 461: 1-6.
• Marchant, D.R., Jamieson, S.S.R. & Sugden, D.E. (2011). The geomorphic signature of massive subglacial floods in Victoria Land, Antarctica. In Subglacial Aquatic Environments, Geophysical Monograph Series. Siegert, M.J. Kennicutt II, M.C. & Bindschadler, R.A. Washington, USA: American Geophysical Union. 192: 111-127.
• Jamieson, S.S.R. & Sugden, D.E. (2008). Landscape evolution of Antarctica. In Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World - Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. Cooper, A. K., Barrett, P. J. Stagg, H. Storey, B. Stump, E. Wise, W. & and the 10th ISAES editorial team. Washington D.C.: National Academies Press. 39-54.

Journal Article

• Arthur, J.F., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Carr, J.R. & Leeson, A.A. (2020). Distribution and seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on Shackleton Ice Shelf, East Antarctica. The Cryosphere 14(11): 4103-4120.
• Miles, B.W.J., Stokes, C.R., Jenkins, A., Jordan, J.R., Jamieson, S.S.R. & Gudmundsson, G.H. (2020). Intermittent structural weakening and acceleration of the Thwaites Glacier Tongue between 2000 and 2018. Journal of Glaciology 66(257): 485-495.
• Paxman, G.J.G., Gasson, E.G.W., Jamieson, S.S.R., Bentley, M.J. & Ferraccioli, F. (2020). Long-term increase in Antarctic Ice Sheet vulnerability driven by bed topography evolution. Geophysical Research Letters 47(20): e2020GL090003.
• Arthur, J.F., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Carr, J.R. & Leeson, A.A. (2020). Recent understanding of Antarctic supraglacial lakes using satellite remote sensing. Progress in Physical Geography 44(6): 837-869.
• Siegert, Martin J., Kingslake, Jonny, Ross, Neil, Whitehouse, Pippa L., Woodward, John, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Bentley, Michael J., Winter, Kate, Wearing, Martin, Hein, Andrew S., Jeofry, Hafeez & Sugden, David E. (2019). Major ice‐sheet change in the Weddell Sector of West Antarctica over the last 5000 years. Reviews of Geophysics 57(4): 1197-1223.
• Paxman, G.J.G., Jamieson, S.S.R., Hochmuth, K., Gohl, K., Bentley, M.J., Leitchenkov, G. & Ferraccioli, F. (2019). Reconstructions of Antarctic topography since the Eocene–Oligocene boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 535: 109346.
• Paxman, G. J. G., Jamieson, S. S. R., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T. A., Bentley, M. J., Ross, N., Forsberg, R., Matsuoka, K., Steinhage, D., Eagles, G. & Casal, T. G. (2019). Subglacial geology and geomorphology of the Pensacola-Pole Basin, East Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(6): 2786-2807.
• Paxman, G. J. G., Jamieson, S. S. R., Ferraccioli, F., Bentley, M. J., Ross, N., Watts, A. B., Leitchenkov, G., Armadillo, E. & Young, D. A. (2019). The role of lithospheric flexure in the landscape evolution of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin and Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 124(3): 812-829.
• Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J., Aze, T., Barlow, N., Burke, A., Dolan, A.M., von der Heydt, A.S., Hill, D.J., Jamieson, S.S.R., Otto-Bliesner, B., Salzmann, U., Saupe, E. & Voss, J. (2019). What can palaeoclimate modelling do for you?. Earth Systems and Environment 3(1): 1-18.
• Stokes, C.R., Sanderson, J.E., Miles, B.W.J., Jamieson, S.S.R. & Leeson, A.A. (2019). Widespread distribution of supraglacial lakes around the margin of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Scientific Reports 9(1): 13823.
• Paxman, G. J. G., Jamieson, S. S. R., Ferraccioli, F., Bentley, M. J., Ross, N., Armadillo, E., Gasson, E. G. W., Leitchenkov, G. & DeConto, R. M. (2018). Bedrock erosion surfaces record former East Antarctic Ice Sheet extent. Geophysical Research Letters 45(9): 4114-4123.
• Barlow, N.L.M., McClymont, E.L., Whitehouse, P.L., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Woodroffe, S.A., Bentley, M.J., Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D.J.A., Horrocks, J.R., Lloyd, J.M., Long, A.J., Margold, M., Roberts, D.H. & Sanchez-Montes, M.L. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience 11: 627-634.
• Sugden, D.E. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2018). The pre-glacial landscape of Antarctica. Scottish Geographical Journal 134(3-4): 203-223.
• Miles, B.W.J., Stokes, C.R & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2018). Velocity increases at Cook Glacier, East Antarctica linked to ice shelf loss and a subglacial flood event. The Cryosphere 12(10): 3123-3136.
• Whitehouse, Pippa L., Bentley, Michael J., Vieli, Andreas, Jamieson, Stewart S.R., Hein, Andrew S. & Sugden, David E. (2017). Controls on Last Glacial Maximum ice extent in the Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface 122(1): 371-397.
• Miles, B.W.J., Stokes, C.R. & Jamieson, S.S.R (2017). Simultaneous disintegration of outlet glaciers in Porpoise Bay (Wilkes Land), East Antarctica, driven by sea ice break-up. The Cryosphere 11: 427-442.
• Lovell, A.M., Stokes, C.R. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2017). Sub-decadal variations in outlet glacier terminus positions in Victoria Land, Oates Land and George V Land, East Antarctica (1972-2013). Antarctic Science 29(5): 468-483.
• Paxman, G. J. G., Jamieson, S. S. R., Ferraccioli, F., Bentley, M. J., Forsberg, R., Ross, N., Watts, A. B., Corr, H. F. J. & Jordan, T. A. (2017). Uplift and tilting of the Shackleton Range in East Antarctica driven by glacial erosion and normal faulting. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 122(3): 2390-2408.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Ross, N., Greenbaum, J.S., Young, D.A., Aitken, A.R.A., Roberts, J.L., Blankenship, D.D., Sun, B. & Siegert, M.J. (2016). An extensive subglacial lake and canyon system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. Geology 44(2): 87-90.
• Clason, C.C., Greenwood, S.L., Selmes, N., Lea, J.M., Jamieson, S.S.R., Nick, F.M. & Holmlund, P. (2016). Controls on the Early Holocene Collapse of the Bothnian Sea Ice Stream. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 121(12): 2494-2513.
• Paxman, G. J. G., Watts, A. B., Ferraccioli, F., Jordan, T. A., Bell, R. E., Jamieson, S. S. R. & Finn, C. A. (2016). Erosion-driven uplift in the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains of East Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 452: 1-14.
• Miles, B.W.J., Stokes, C.R. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2016). Pan–ice-sheet glacier terminus change in East Antarctica reveals sensitivity of Wilkes Land to sea-ice changes. Science Advances 2(5): e1501350.
• Langley, E.S., Leeson, A.A., Stokes, C.R. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2016). Seasonal evolution of supraglacial lakes on an East Antarctic outlet glacier. Geophysical Research Letters 43(16): 8563-8571.
• Livingstone, S.J., Stokes, C.R., O Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C-D., Vieli, A., Jamieson, S.S.R., Spagnolo, M. & 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.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J., Vieli, A. Ò Cofaigh, C., Hillenbrand, C-D. & 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.
• Evans, D.J.A., Ewertowski, M., Jamieson, S.S.R. & Orton, C. (2016). Surficial geology and geomorphology of the Kumtor Gold Mine, Kyrgyzstan: human impacts on mountain glacier landsystems. Journal of Maps 12(5): 757-769.
• Chang, M., Jamieson, S.S.R., Bentley, M.J. & Stokes, C.R. (2016). The surficial and subglacial geomorphology of western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Journal of Maps 12(5): 892-903.
• Carr, J.R., Vieli, A., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Palmer, S.J., Christoffersen, P., Dowdeswell, J.A., Nick, F.M., Blankenship, D.D. & Young, D.A. (2015). Basal topographic controls on rapid retreat of Humboldt Glacier, northern Greenland. Journal of Glaciology 61(225): 137-150.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Ewertowski, M.W. & Evans, D.J.A. (2015). Rapid advance of two mountain glaciers in response to mine-related debris loading. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface 120(7): 1418-1435.
• Bentley, M.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Anderson, J.B., Conway, H., Davies, B., Graham, A.G.C., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Hodgson, D.A., Jamieson, S.S.R., Larter, R.D., Mackintosh, A., Smith, J.A., Verleyen, E., Ackert, R.P., Bart, P.J., Berg, S., Brunstein, D., Canals, M., Colhoun, E.A., Crosta, X., Dickens, W.A., Domack, E., Dowdeswell, J.A., Dunbar, R., Ehrmann, W., Evans, J., Favier, V., Fink, D., Fogwill, C.J., Glasser, N.F., Gohl, K., Golledge, N.R., Goodwin, I., Gore, D.B., Greenwood, S.L., Hall, B.L., Hall, K., Hedding, D.W., Hein, A.S., Hocking, E.P., Jakobsson, M., Johnson, J.S., Jomelli, V., Jones, R.S., Klages, J.P., Kristoffersen, Y., Kuhn, G., Leventer, A., Licht, K., Lilly, K., Lindow, J., Livingstone, S.J., Massé, G., McGlone, M.S., McKay, R.M., Melles, M., Miura, H., Mulvaney, R., Nel, W., Nitsche, F.O., O’Brien, P.E., Post, A.L., Roberts, S.J., Saunders, K.M., Selkirk, P.M., Simms, A.R., Spiegel, C., Stolldorf, T.D., Sugden, D.E., van der Putten, N., van Ommen, T., Verfaillie, D., Vyverman, W., Wagner, B., White, D.A., Witus, A.E. & Zwartz, D. (2014). A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100: 1-9.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Stokes, C.R., Ross, N., Rippin, D.M., Bingham, R.G., Wilson, D.S., Margold, M. & Bentley, M.J. (2014). The Glacial Geomorphology of the Antarctic Ice Sheet Bed. Antarctic Science 26(6): 724-741.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Vieli, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J. & Hillenbrand, C-D. (2014). Understanding controls on rapid ice-stream retreat during the last deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, using a numerical model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 119(2): 247-263.
• Rose, K.C., Ferraccioli, F., Jamieson, S.S.R., Bell, R., Corr, H., Creyts, T. Fretwell, P.T., Jordan, T., Damaske, D. & Braaten, D. (2013). Early East Antarctic Ice Sheet growth recorded in the landscape of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains. Earth and planetary science letters 375: 1-12.
• Livingstone, S.J., O'Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., Hillenbrand, C-D., Vieli, A. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2013). Glacial geomorphology of Marguerite Bay Palaeo-Ice stream, western Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Maps 9(4): 558-572.
• Wilson, D.S., Pollard, D., DeConto, R., Jamieson, S.S.R. & Luyendyk, B.P. (2013). Initiation of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and estimates of total Antarctic ice volume in the earliest Oligocene. Geophysical Research Letters 40(16): 4305-4309.
• Livingstone, S.J., O'Cofaigh, C.O., Stokes C.R., Hillenbrand, C-D., Vieli, A. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2012). Antarctic palaeo-ice streams. Earth-Science Reviews 111(1-2): 90-128.
• Wilson, D.S., Jamieson, S.S.R., Barrett, P.J., Leitchenkov, G., Gohl, K. & Larter, R.D. (2012). Antarctic topography at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 335-336: 24-34.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Vieli, A., Livingstone, S.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., Hillenbrand, C-D. & Dowdeswell, J.A. (2012). Ice-stream stability on a reverse bed slope. Nature Geoscience 5(11): 799-802.
• Pross, J., Contreras, L., Bijl, P.K., Greenwood, D.R., Bohaty, S.M., Schouten, S., Bendle, J.A., Röhl, U., Tauxe, L., Raine, J.I., Huck, J.E., van de Flierdt, T., Jamieson, S.S.R., Stickley, C.E., van de Schootbrugge, B., Escutia, C., Brinkhuis, H. & Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 318 Scientists (2012). Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature 488(7409): 73-77
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Sugden, D.E. & Hulton, N.R.J. (2010). The evolution of the subglacial landscape of Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 293(1-2): 1-27.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Hulton, N.R.J. & Hagdorn, M. (2008). Modelling landscape evolution under ice sheets. Geomorphology 97(1-2): 91-108.
• Hebeler, F., Purves, R.S. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2008). The impact of parametric uncertainty and topographic error in ice-sheet modelling. Journal of Glaciology 54(188): 889-919.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Hulton, N.R.J., Sugden, D.E., Payne, A.J. & Taylor, J. (2005). Cenozoic Landscape evolution of the Lambert basin, East Antarctica: the relative role of rivers and ice sheets. Global and Planetary Change 45(1-3): 35-49.
• Jamieson, S.S.R., Sinclair, H.D., Kirstein, L.A. & Purves, R.S. (2004). Tectonic forcing of longitudinal valleys in the Himalaya: morphological analysis of the Ladakh Batholith, North India. Geomorphology 58(1-4): 49-65.

Edited Sources, Research Data Sets, and Databases

• Hochmuth,K., Paxman,G., Gohl, K., Jamieson, S.S.R., Leitchenkov, G.L., Bentley, M.J., Ferraccioli, F., Sauermilch, I., Whittaker, J., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Davy, B. & DeSantis, L. (2020). Combined palaeotopography and palaeobathymetry of the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean since 34 Ma. PANGEA.
• Napoleoni, F., Jamieson, S.S.R., Ross, N., Bentley, M., Rivera, A., Smith, A., Siegert, M., Paxman, G., Gacitúa, G., Uribe, J., Zamora, R., Brisbourne, A. & Vaughan, D. (2020). Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica, 1977-2017 (Version 1.0). UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Jamieson, S.S.R & Livingstone, S.J. (2013). Look to the past to see the future. Geoconnexion International (July-August): 31.

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Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

• Environmental change: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
• Landscape systems: Glaciers and Ice Sheets
• Geophysics: Landscapes under ice
• Tectonics: Landscapes under ice
• Landscape systems: Landscapes under ice

Supervises

• Mr Felipe Napoleoni
• Miss Jennifer Arthur
• Miss María Paz Lira-Bahamonde
• Miss Cristina-Ioana Balaban
• Mr Harry Clayton

Selected Grants