Professor John Woodward

Pro Vice-Chancellor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor - present
Faculty Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) - to 2018
Associate Dean Research and Innovation, 2013-present.
Professor of Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2012–present.
Director of Research, Department of Geography, 2010-2013.
Reader in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2008–2012.
Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Northumbria University, 2003–2008.
Research Associate, British Antarctic Survey, 2002-2003.
Lecturer in Physical Geography, Brunel University, 2001-2002.
PDRA, University of Leeds, 2000-2001.
PhD, University of Leeds, 1996-2000.
MSc, University of Alberta, Canada, 1994-1996.
BSc, University of Leeds and University of Liege, Belgium, 1991-1994.

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Key Publications

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Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 24 Jan 2025, In: The Cryosphere
Glacial geology of the Hudson Mountains, Amundsen Sea sector, West Antarctica, Johnson, J., Nichols, K., Riley, T., Venturelli, R., Hodgson, D., Balco, G., Hall, B., Smith, J., Woodward, J. 15 Feb 2025, In: Quaternary Science Reviews
Lessons learned from shallow subglacial bedrock drilling campaigns in Antarctica, Braddock, S., Venturelli, R., Nichols, K., Moravec, E., Boeckmann, G., Campbell, S., Balco, G., Ackert, R., Small, D., Johnson, J., Dunbar, N., Woodward, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Goehring, B. 1 Jan 2025, In: Annals of Glaciology
Preparation protocol for epifluorescence microscopy when working close to the detection limit, McCerery, R., Hall, L., Omanakuttan, J., Chai, H., Lawrence, J., Woodward, J., Pearce, D. 1 Mar 2025, In: Letters in Applied Microbiology
Remote Mapping of Bedrock for Future Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure Dating Studies in Unvisited Areas of Antarctica, Adams, J., Mason, P., Roberts, S., Rood, D., Smellie, J., Nichols, K., Woodward, J., Johnson, J. 17 Jan 2025, In: Remote Sensing
Detecting Holocene retreat and readvance in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica: assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling, Johnson, J., Woodward, J., Nesbitt, I., Winter, K., Campbell, S., Nichols, K., Venturelli, R., Braddock, S., Goehring, B., Hall, B., Rood, D., Balco, G. 23 May 2024
Direct geologic constraints on the timing of Late Holocene ice thickening in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, Nichols, K., Adams, J., Brown, K., Creel, R., McKenzie, M., Venturelli, R., Johnson, J., Rood, D., Wilcken, K., Woodward, J., Roberts, S. 28 Dec 2024, In: Geophysical Research Letters
Geochemical evidence for Alberta Oil Sands contamination in sediments remote to known oil sands deposits in Alberta, Canada, McCerery, B., Esegbue, O., Jones, M., Winter, K., McHale, G., Woodward, J. 3 May 2024, In: Environmental Forensics
Ground-penetrating radar surveys at three nunataks in the Hudson Mountains in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica, December 2019, Woodward, J., Johnson, J. 2 May 2024
Terrestrial glacial geomorphology of surge-type and non-surge-type glaciers on Svalbard, McCerery, R., Davies, B., Lovell, H., Pearce, D., Calvo Ryan, R., Małecki, J., Woodward, J. 31 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Maps