Sediment transport from the Greenland Ice Sheet.

My PhD research focuses on identifying recent changes to erosion and sediment transport from the Greenland Ice Sheet along with their underlying glaciological and climatic drives. I integrate a variety of in situ measurements, field methods and modelling approaches to explain, understand and model an entire glacier system. During my field campaigns, I install measurement stations in and next to the glacier meltwater stream to collect sediment and water discharge records from Leverett glacier, a land terminating glacier outlet of the Western part of the Greenland Ice Sheet. These stations consist of pressure and turbidity sensors in the glacial meltwater stream as well geophones next to the glacial meltwater stream. Throughout the summer months I collect suspended sediment hand samples and conduct dye tracing to get a suspended sediment record and discharge record over the melt season. The geophone records are converted to bedload transport by using a Fluvial Inversion Model. The sediment records obtained will be compared to existing glaciological datasets such as glacier velocity and water discharge. By using the SUbGlacial Sediment Transport model (SUGSET) we aim to generalise our records and link them to changing glacier dynamics under a warming climate.