Jonathan Kingslake
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

My Contact Info

Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Route 9W, Mail Code: Oceanography Room 109A, Palisades NY 10964, United States

845-365-8397
[email protected]
http://jkingslake.com

Jonathan Kingslake

Research Interest

Geophysics
Arctic Studies
Cryosphere
Hydrology
Polar Studies
Glaciology

Biography

I grew up in Reading UK, 20 minutes by train from London. I went to Chiltern Edge Secondary School (11-16yrs) and Henley Sixth Form College (17-18yrs).
After two years of working and backpacking I went to The University of York, UK, and did a Physics BSc. My final year project was on the nucleation of freezing in supercooled water, supervised by Dr Richard Keesing. We scattered a laser through droplets of supercooled water to observed freezing as it was initiated by the application of an electric field.
Between 2009 and 2013 I did PhD in glaciology in the Department of Geography, Sheffield University, supervised by Dr Felix Ng. My thesis was entitled 'Modeling ice-dammed lake drainage' (pdf). I used mathematical models to study how water flows beneath glacier (see research section).
Between 2013 and 2016, was a Glacier Geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Cambridge, UK. I was employed on a NERC-funded project led by Richard Hindmarsh. We used radar and mathematical models to study present-day and past ice flow in West Antarctica.
In March 2016 my wife and I moved from the UK and I started my current position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
My research is concerned with obtaining a better understanding of glacial processes to improve predictions of ice-sheet evolution.
I advise a group of students and post-docs using remote-sensing, mathematical modeling and fieldwork to better understand glacial processes.

Education

Sep ‘09 – Jan ‘13 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK; Ph.D. in Glaciology: ‘Modelling Ice-dammed Lake Drainage’ with Felix Ng and Grant Bigg.
Sep ‘06 – May ‘09 Department of Physics, University of York, UK; B.Sc. Physics (First-class with Distinction) Dissertation: ‘Ice nucleation and the electrofreezing effect’, inducing freezing with electric fields.