Dr Iestyn Barr

Academic and professional qualifications

PhD (Sheffield) 
MSc (Liverpool)
BSc (Lancsater)

Why study ?

Postgraduate supervision (completed/in progress)

• Michael Martin (in progress). Using glaciers to identify, monitor, and predict volcanic activity. Leverhulme Trust.
• Konstantin Nebel (in progress). Reconstructing rapid Holocene Arctic climate change and glacier behaviour. LJMU studentship.
• Rachel Oien (in progress). Climate at the onset of Antarctic Ice Sheet growth. Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) studentship.
• Colleen Lynch (completed). Glacier-volcano interactions on the Kamchatka Peninsula. Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)studentship.

Research expertise

My research expertise lies in the application of remote sensing, GIS, and modelling techniques. I have particular interest in glaciers and volcanoes.

Publications

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  S. Roberson, ID. Barr, M. Cooper (2016). The Quaternary Glaciation of the Mourne Mountains. Quaternary Research Association.

• Journal articles

  S. Deswal, M. Chand Sharma, R. Saini, P. Chand, S. Prakash, et al. P. Kumar, I. Barr, S. Umer Latief, P. Dalal, IM. Bahuguna. (2023). Reconstruction of post-little ice age glacier recession in the Lahaul Himalaya, north-west India. Geografiska Annaler Series A: Physical Geography. 105(1), pp.1-26.

  RP. Oien, BR. Rea, M. Spagnolo, ID. Barr, RG. Bingham (2022). Testing the area–altitude balance ratio (AABR) and accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods of calculating glacier equilibrium-line altitudes. Journal of Glaciology. 68(268), pp.357-368.

  JE. Schofield, DM. Pearce, DWF. Mair, BR. Rea, JM. Lea, et al. NA. Kamenos, KM. Schoenrock, ID. Barr, KJ. Edwards. (2022). Pushing the Limits: Palynological Investigations at the Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Norse Western Settlement. Environmental Archaeology. 27(2), pp.228-242.

  M. Spagnolo, BR. Rea, I. Barr (2022). The (mis)conception of average Quaternary conditions. Quaternary Research. 105, pp.235-240.

  MD. Tomkins, JM. Dortch, PD. Hughes, JJ. Huck, R. Pallàs, et al. Á. Rodés, JL. Allard, AG. Stimson, D. Bourlès, V. Rinterknecht, V. Jomelli, L. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, R. Copons, ID. Barr, CM. Darvill, T. Bishop. (2021). Moraine crest or slope: An analysis of the effects of boulder position on cosmogenic exposure age. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 570,

  DJ. Mullan, ID. Barr, RP. Flood, JM. Galloway, AMW. Newton, et al. GT. Swindles. (2021). Examining the viability of the world’s busiest winter road to climate change using a process-based lake model. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(7), pp.E1464-E1480.

  RD. Storrar, M. Ewertowski, AM. Tomczyk, ID. Barr, SJ. Livingstone, et al. A. Ruffell, BJ. Stoker, DJA. Evans. (2020). Equifinality and preservation potential of complex eskers. Boreas. 49(1), pp.211-231.

  ID. Barr, JC. Ely, M. Spagnolo, IS. Evans, MD. Tomkins (2019). The dynamics of mountain erosion: cirque growth slows as landscapes age. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 44(13), pp.2628-2637.

  D. Mullan, T. Matthews, K. Vandaele, I. Barr, G. Swindles, et al. J. Meneely, J. Boardman, C. Murphy. (2019). Climate impacts on soil erosion and muddy flooding at 1.5°C vs 2°C warming. Land Degradation and Development. 30, pp.94-108.

  H. Lovell, D. Benn, S. Lukas, D. Ottesen, A. Luckman, et al. M. Hardiman, I. Barr, C. Boston, H. Sevestre. (2018). Multiple Late Holocene surges of a High-Arctic tidewater glacier system in Svalbard. Quaternary Science Reviews. 201, pp.162-185.

  B. Chandler, H. Lovell, C. Boston, S. Lukas, I. Barr, et al. ÍÖ. Benediktsson, D. Benn, C. Clark, C. Darvill, D. Evans, M. Ewertowski, D. Loibl, M. Margold, J-C. Otto, D. Roberts, C. Stokes, R. Storrar, A. Stroeven. (2018). Glacial geomorphological mapping: A review of approaches and frameworks for best practice. Earth-Science Reviews. 185, pp.806-846.

  M. Tomkins, J. Dortch, P. Hughes, J. Huck, T. Tonkin, et al. ID. Barr. (2018). Timing of glacial retreat in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland, conditioned by glacier size and topography. Journal of Quaternary Science. 33(6), pp.611-623.

  ID. Barr, M. Dokukin, I. Kougkoulos, S. Livingstone, H. Lovell, et al. J. Małecki, A. Muraviev. (2018). Using ArcticDEM to Analyse the Dimensions and Dynamics of Debris-Covered Glaciers in Kamchatka, Russia. Geosciences. 8(6),

  ID. Barr, C. Lynch, D. Mullan, L. De Siena, M. Spagnolo (2018). Volcanic impacts on modern glaciers: a global synthesis. Earth-Science Reviews. 182, pp.186-203.

  M. Tomkins, J. Huck, J. Dortch, P. Hughes, M. Kirkbride, et al. ID. Barr. (2018). Schmidt Hammer exposure dating (SHED): Calibration procedures, new exposure age data and an online calculator. Quaternary Geochronology. 44, pp.55-62.

  CD. Clark, JC. Ely, SL. Greenwood, ALC. Hughes, R. Meehan, et al. ID. Barr, MD. Bateman, T. Bradwell, J. Doole, DJA. Evans, CJ. Jordan, X. Monteys, XM. Pellicer, M. Sheehy. (2018). BRITICE Glacial Map, version 2: a map and GIS database of glacial landforms of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Boreas. 47(1), pp.11-e8.

  RP. Flood, ID. Barr, GJ. Weltje, S. Roberson, MI. Russell, et al. J. Meneely, JD. Orford. (2018). Provenance and depositional variability of the Thin Mud Facies in the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra delta,West Bengal Sundarbans, India. Marine Geology. 395, pp.198-218.

  ID. Barr, JC. Ely, M. Spagnolo, CD. Clark, IS. Evans, et al. XM. Pellicer, R. Pellitero, BR. Rea. (2017). Climate patterns during former periods of mountain glaciation in Britain and Ireland: Inferences from the cirque record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 485, pp.466-475.

  JC. Ely, C. Graham, ID. Barr, BR. Rea, M. Spagnolo, et al. J. Evans. (2017). Using UAV acquired photography and structure from motion techniques for studying glacier landforms: application to the glacial flutes at Isfallsglaciären. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 42(6), pp.877-888.

  VD. Meyer, ID. Barr (2017). Linking glacier extent and summer temperature in NE Russia - Implications for precipitation during the global Last Glacial Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 470, pp.72-80.

  M. Spagnolo, R. Pellitero, ID. Barr, JC. Ely, XM. Pellicer, et al. BR. Rea. (2017). ACME, a GIS tool for Automated Cirque Metric Extraction. Geomorphology. 278, pp.280-286.

  ID. Barr, S. Roberson, R. Flood, J. Dortch (2017). Younger Dryas glaciers and climate in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science. 32(1), pp.104-115.

  RP. Flood, MR. Bloemsma, GJ. Weltje, ID. Barr, SM. O'Rourke, et al. JN. Turner, JD. Orford. (2016). Compositional data analysis of Holocene sediments from the West Bengal Sundarbans, India: Geochemical proxies for grain-size variability in a delta environment. Applied Geochemistry. 75, pp.222-235.

  CM. Lynch, ID. Barr, D. Mullan, A. Ruffell (2016). Rapid glacial retreat on the Kamchatka Peninsula during the early 21st century. Cryosphere. 10(4), pp.1809-1821.

  ID. Barr, M. Spagnolo (2015). Glacial cirques as palaeoenvironmental indicators: Their potential and limitations. Earth-Science Reviews. 151, pp.48-78.

  ID. Barr, M. Spagnolo (2015). Understanding controls on cirque floor altitudes: Insights from Kamchatka. Geomorphology. 248, pp.1-13.

  JK. Hillier, MJ. Smith, R. Armugam, I. Barr, CM. Boston, et al. CD. Clark, J. Ely, A. Fankl, SL. Greenwood, L. Gosselin, C. Hättestrand, K. Hogan, ALC. Hughes, SJ. Livingstone, H. Lovell, M. McHenry, Y. Munoz, XM. Pellicer, R. Pellitero, C. Robb, S. Roberson, D. Ruther, M. Spagnolo, M. Standell, CR. Stokes, R. Storrar, NJ. Tate, K. Wooldridge. (2015). Manual mapping of drumlins in synthetic landscapes to assess operator effectiveness. Journal of Maps. 11(5), pp.719-729.

  ID. Barr, H. Lovell (2014). A review of topographic controls on moraine distribution. Geomorphology. 226, pp.44-64.

  ID. Barr, M. Spagnolo (2014). Testing the efficacy of the glacial buzzsaw: Insights from the Sredinny Mountains, Kamchatka. Geomorphology. 206, pp.230-238.

  ID. Barr, O. Solomina (2014). Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations upon the Kamchatka Peninsula. Global and Planetary Change. 113, pp.110-120.

  ID. Barr, M. Spagnolo (2013). Palaeoglacial and palaeoclimatic conditions in the NW Pacific, as revealed by a morphometric analysis of cirques upon the Kamchatka Peninsula. Geomorphology. 192, pp.15-29.

  ID. Barr, CD. Clark (2012). An updated moraine map of Far NE Russia. Journal of Maps. 8(4), pp.431-436.

  ID. Barr, CD. Clark (2012). Late Quaternary glaciations in Far NE Russia; combining moraines, topography and chronology to assess regional and global glaciation synchrony. Quaternary Science Reviews. 53, pp.72-87.

  ID. Barr, CD. Clark (2011). Glaciers and climate in Pacific Far NE Russia during the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science. 26(2), pp.227-237.

  FSL. Ng, ID. Barr, CD. Clark (2010). Using the surface profiles of modern ice masses to inform palaeo-glacier reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(23-24), pp.3240-3255.

  ID. Barr, CD. Clark (2009). Distribution and pattern of moraines in far ne Russia reveal former glacial extent. Journal of Maps. 5(1), pp.186-193.

• Chapters in books

  J. Napieralski, I. Barr, U. Kamp, M. Kervyn (2013). Remote Sensing and GIScience in Geomorphological Mapping. In: Treatise on Geomorphology. pp.187-227.

  J. Napieralski, I. Barr, U. Kamp, M. Kervyn (2013). Remote Sensing and GIScience in Geomorphological Mapping. In: Treatise on Geomorphology: Volume 1-14. pp.187-227.

Grants

2021: Co-Investigator, 'Icy thermometers: the use of glaciers to measure and monitor volcano temperature (HOT ICE)'. NERC Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund (£100k) 

2020: Co-Investigator, 'Palaeo-glacier and climate reconstructions in the Arctic Urals'. NERC Arctic Office, UK-Russia Burseries Programme. (£7k) 

2019:  Principal-Investigator, 'Using glaciers to identify, monitor, and predict volcanic activity'. The Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant. (£221k) 

2017: Co-Investigator, 'Climate at the onset of Antarctic Ice Sheet growth'. Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society (SAGES) studentship. (£68k)

2017: Co-Investigator, ‘TRacing Eskers Beneath gLaciErs (TREBLE)’, EU INTERACT Transnational Access Grant (£3k)

2016: Principal-Investigator ‘The fate of Himalayan glaciers under changing climate’, Department for Education (DfE) studentship, UK Government (£42k).

2016: Lone-Investigator, 'The impact of glacier fluctuations on lake sedimentation rates', BSG Research Project Grant (£1k)

2015: Lone-Investigator, 'Reconstructing the Younger Dryas glaciation of the Mourne Mountains', Mourne Cooley Gullion Higher Education Research Bursaries Scheme (£2k)

2014: Principal-Investigator, ‘Glacier-volcano interactions on the Kamchatka Peninsula’, Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC). (£68k)

2013: Co-Investigator, 'Flute Morphometry from Photogrammetry', EU INTERACT Transnational Access Grant (£8k)

2013: Co-Investigator, ‘Insights on the formation of glacial bedforms and ice-bed interaction using fluting field morphometrics, sedimentology and sediment thicknesses', NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility (£2k)

Editorial board membership

 Scientific Editor – Journal of Glaciology.