Christopher Darvill

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I am a Physical Geographer and Quaternary Scientist interested in how changing climate affected the timing and nature of glacier and ice sheet activity over the last 2.5 million years.

My research involves using geomorphology left behind by ancient ice sheets and glaciers to reconstruct their former advance and retreat. I use geochronological techniques to reconstruct rates of past ice activity in Patagonia, western North America, Antarctica and Greenland.

I am part of the Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology research group.

Senior Lecturer, The University of Manchester, UK (2022-present)

Lecturer, The University of Manchester, UK (2017-2022)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNBC, Canada (2016-2017)

Postdoctoral Assistant Sedimentologist, British Antarctic Survey, UK (2015)

Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology

Cryosphere Research at Manchester (CRAM)

Current Postgraduate Researchers

Oliver Thomas (2022–2026) 'From summits to cirques: Deciphering the nature and rate of ice loss from the last Welsh Ice Cap' (with Prof. Phil Hughes and Dr Pete Ryan). Funded by a SEED Scholarship.

Shashank Nitundil (2022–2026) 'Past glaciations and palaeoenvironmental conditions in eastern Himalayas' (with Dr Abi Stone and Prof. Phil Hughes). Funded by a SEED/Presidential Scholarship.

Bingdian Wang (2023–2026) 'Glaciers and climate change in mid-latitude regions, from the Mediterranean to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau' (with Prof. Phil Hughes and Prof. Jamie Woodward).