Assembled an international team of contributors for a new book about "Glaciology and Earth's changing environment" that I am editing for Blackwell Publishing. Book Editing work in progress. Started work on a new, revised edition of the best-selling textbook "How to do your dissertation in Geography" that I wrote in 1995 with Tony Parsons. The new 2nd Edition is due to be published in 2003. New Book Edition in preparation. Signed the contract for a new book deal with the Geographical Association to produce a school text "Glaciers and Glacial Landscapes". Had originally planned to write this during 2004, but have agreed to bring deadline forward to summer 2003. Book writing contract signed. Wrote a project proposal and submitted an application for funding from The Royal Society. Grant application submitted. Proposal follows time spent developing ideas for the next phase of my long-term research programe about sediment entrainment and deposition by ice sheets. Wrote a project proposal and submitted an application for funding from The Leverhulme Trust. Grant application submitted. Proposal follows time spent developing ideas for a laboratory-based extension of my previous research on ice-sheet sedmentation. Prepared groundwork for an application for funding from NERC to be submitted in 2004. Grant application in preparation. Wrote 2 entries that I had been invited to contribute for a new Encyclopedia of Geomorphology being published by Routledge with the International Association of Geomorphologists. Articles submitted. Received an invitation to contribute 7 entries to Kluwer's new "Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments": My entries will be Cirques, Drumlins, Kames, Kettles, Moraines, Basal ice and Outwash plains. (Isn't that ironic!) Worked with Richard Waller on a paper that he is lead-authoring about our research in Greenland, and submitted it for publication. Paper submitted. Worked with Will Adam, my postgraduate student, on a paper that he is lead-authoring about our research in Greenland, and submitted it for publication. Paper submitted. Worked on a paper that I am authoring about my research in Greenland and Iceland, and submitted for publication. Paper submitted. Started the final write-up of what will be the final paper from my 1999 project in Greenland. This will be the 4th major "Knight et al." paper to come out of the project, and its publication will mark the official end of the project. New paper in preparation. Examined a PhD thesis for the University of Aberystwyth. Studied the thesis and went to Aberystwyth to lead the viva voce examination of the candidate. Thesis examined. Completed the project, and wrote and submitted the final report, for "Undergraduate Student Profiling" that was carried out with £2000 funding from the University's Learning and Teaching Innovation fund. Report submitted Was commissioned by Oxford University Press to supply a photograph of icebergs in a pro-glacial lake for publication in a text book for students of French as a second language. Photograph submitted. Started a new research project about glacier morphology. Lots of reading, thinking and pilot investigations in the laboratory, and then wrote a short paper presenting the preliminary results. Paper submitted. Celebrated the publication of a new paper in Journal of Glaciology! The paper was completed and submitted before the sabbatical started, but appears in the Journal issue published December 2002. New paper published. Received notification that paper submitted jointly with Will Adam (see above) is accepted for publication in Quaternary Science Reviews. Paper accepted for publication. Jointly with Richard Waller submitted an abstract for the INQUA meeting in Reno next summer. Conference abstract submitted Set up pilot experiments in the Low-Temperature Lab for a new project modelling the release of water through subglacial tunnels. Laboratory experiments in progress. Had to start doing some preparation for teaching that begins immediately at the end of my sabbatical: rewriting and updating my GEOG-312 Glaciers course. Lecture course revised. Was required to produce an official "Personal Research Strategy" and
to attend a "Research Strategy Away Day" with the rest of the School of
Earth Sciences and Geography. Although this interfered with sabattical
activities it came in useful as the Research Strategy made a good supplement
to my CV in an exploratory job application at another University! Attended
Departmental Away-day.
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