{"id":715,"date":"2017-11-07T09:58:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/?page_id=715"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:00:27","slug":"dr-catriona-fyffe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/dr-catriona-fyffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Catriona Fyffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-733\" src=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Cat-Fyffe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"189\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My research is in the field of glacier-hydrology and I specialise in understanding how a supraglacial debris cover influences glacier melt rates and the glacier-hydrological system. I use techniques such as dye tracing, measurements of glacier velocity using differential GPS systems and monitoring of the proglacial stream discharge and water chemistry to understand the glacial drainage system.\u00c2\u00a0 I also model melt rates from meteorological data to better understand the influence of a debris cover on glacial melt. UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or drones) are also a useful tool within my research into the melt of partially debris-covered ice, since they provide high resolution data about the glacier surface.<\/p>\n<p>Research Gate: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Catriona_Fyffe2\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Catriona_Fyffe2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research is in the field of glacier-hydrology and I specialise in understanding how a supraglacial debris cover influences glacier melt rates and the glacier-hydrological system. I use techniques such as dye tracing, measurements of glacier velocity using differential GPS systems and monitoring of the proglacial stream discharge and water chemistry to understand the glacial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/people\/academics\/dr-catriona-fyffe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dr Catriona Fyffe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":144,"menu_order":7,"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-715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.northumbria.ac.uk\/coldandpalaeo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/715\/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=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}