{"id":282,"date":"2016-06-04T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T07:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldandpalaeo.wordpress.com\/?page_id=282"},"modified":"2020-03-26T17:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:49:16","slug":"westoby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/westoby\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Matt Westoby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/matt-westoby.jpg\" alt=\"matt-westoby\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">I am a quantitative geomorphologist who specialises in surface process analysis in glacial and ice-marginal environments. My research interests include glacial hazard analysis, sedimentological and geomorphological analysis of glacial (debris-covered glaciers) and ice-marginal zones (outburst flood deposits, blue-ice moraines), debris-supply in glacierised Alpine catchments and glacial hazard reconstruction and modelling (GLOFs). Much of this research utilises low-cost \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcStructure-from-Motion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 methods, often driven by data acquired from UAV, or drone platforms. I have undertaken fieldwork in the Nepal Himalaya, European Alps (Italy, Switzerland), and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>I joined the Department of Geography at Northumbria University in 2014 as a PDRA on the NERC-funded project \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcA new approach to West Antarctic Ice Sheet evolution using blue-ice moraines on nunataks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. I was appointed as a Lecturer in Physical Geography (Fixed Term) in October 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=vICEdmQAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northumbria.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-staff\/w\/matt-westoby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a quantitative geomorphologist who specialises in surface process analysis in glacial and ice-marginal environments. My research interests include glacial hazard analysis, sedimentological and geomorphological analysis of glacial (debris-covered glaciers) and ice-marginal zones (outburst flood deposits, blue-ice moraines), debris-supply in glacierised Alpine catchments and glacial hazard reconstruction and modelling (GLOFs). Much of this research &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/westoby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Matt Westoby&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"inspiro_hide_title":false,"inspiro_hide_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-282","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/282\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}