Staff profile

My research interests centre on glacial sedimentary processes and understanding millenial-scale changes in ice sheet and ice stream dynamics.

In Greenland my work focuses on ice sheet evolution and ice stream dynamics during the last glacial cycle. I have studied ice sheet behaviour along the West and Southeast margins of the Greenland ice sheet and also have interests in large palaeo, cross-shelf ice streams such as the Uummannaq Ice Stream System, Jakobshavns Isbare and Holsteinborgs Isbrae and the forcing mechanisms that govern their long term behaviour. Our new work on the NE Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS Project 2016 - 2020) aims to shed light on the deglacial and Holocene dynamic history of NEGIS and to explore the forcing mechanisms that governed its millenial-scale behaviour.

In the UK, my work in Norfolk, the Irish Sea and the East coast has focussed on the importance of understanding the subglacial and ice marginal processes that accompany ice sheet/stream advance and retreat during glacial cycles. On the east coast, understanding the controls on LGM ice sheet dynamics and fast ice flow in the NE sector of the BIIS has been a major focus of recent work, as have interactions between the British and Fennoscandanavian ice sheets throughout the Quaternary. Two current projects; Britice-Chrono (NERC Consortium) and GLANAM (EU Funded); are both aiming to reconstruct deglacial behaviour of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in order to contextualise future changes in Greeland and Antartica.

• Ice stream evolution and behaviour
• Subglacial processes and ice sheet dynamics
• Ice-sheet marginal dynamics, glaciomarine processes and sea-level change

Authored book

• Davies, B., Yorke, L., Bridgland, D., & Roberts, D. (2013). Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. Quaternary Research Association

Chapter in book

• Davies, B., & Roberts, D. - Overview of the glacial sediments of County Durham. In B. Davies, L. Yorke, D. Bridgland, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. QRA
• Davies, B., Bridgland, D., Roberts, D., & O Cofaigh, C. - Whitburn Bay. In B. Davies, L. Yorke, D. Bridgland, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. QRA
• Davies, B., Bridgland, D., & Roberts, D. - Geology and Landscape. In B. Davies, L. Yorke, D. Bridgland, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. QRA
• Roberts, D., Mitchell, W., Bridgland, D., & Innes, J. - Marfield Quarry. In B. Davies, L. Yorke, D. Bridgland, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. QRA
• Roberts, D., & Hart, J. - Macro and microstructural evidence for a deforming glacier bed: East Runton to West Runton. In E. Phillips, J. Lee, & H. Evans (Eds.), Glaciotectonic Field Guide. QRA
• Davies, B., Bridgland, D., Roberts, D., & O Cofaigh, C. - Warren House Gill. In B. Davies, L. Yorke, D. Bridgland, & D. Roberts (Eds.), Quaternary of Northumberland, Durham and Yorkshire. QRA
• Chiverrell, R., Innes, J., Thomas, G., Gonzalez, S., Roberts, D., & Coope, R. (2006). Emerging from the Ice Age. In R. Chiverrell, & G. Thomas (Eds.), A New History of the Isle of Man: Volume 1: Evolution of the natural landscape (220-278). Liverpool University Press
• Chiverrell, R., Innes, J., Roberts, D., Tomlinson, G., Pooley, E., Fullen, M., Hallett, M., & Harris, J. (2006). The Holocene. In R. Chiverrell, & G. Thomas (Eds.), A New History of the Isle of Man (126-219). Liverpool University Press
• Thomas, G., Chiverrell, R., Huddart, D., Long, D., & Roberts, D. (2006). The Ice Age. In R. Chiverrell, & G. Thomas (Eds.), A New History of the Isle of Man (126-219). Liverpool University Press
• Roberts, D., Dackombe, R., & Thomas, G. (2004). The glacial landsystem signature of the south Isle of Man. In R. Chiverrell, A. Plater, & G. Thomas (Eds.), The Quaternary of the Isle of Man and North West England (44-53). Quaternary Research Association
• Roberts, D., Chiverrell, R., Innes, J., Gonzalez, S., Turner, S., & Horton, B. (2004). New data on Holocene sea-level changes on the Isle of Man. In R. Chiverrell, A. Plater, & G. Thomas (Eds.), The Quaternary of the Isle of Man and North West England (112-124). Quaternary Research Association
• Roberts, D. (2001). Warning: Title Missing. In R. Chadwick, D. Jackson, G. Kimbell, H. Johnson, R. Chiverell, G. Thomas, N. Jones, N. Riley, E. Pickett, B. Young, D. Holliday, D. Ball, S. Molyneux, D. Long, G. Power, & D. Roberts (Eds.), The Geology of the Isle of Man and its offshore area. British Geological Survey
• Roberts, D., & Hart, J. (2000). The glacial deposits of Trimingham. In S. Lewis, C. Whiteman, & R. Preece (Eds.), The Quaternary of Norfolk and Suffolk, QRA Field Guide (103-111)
• Roberts, D., & Hart, J. (2000). The glacial deposits of West Runton. In S. Lewis, C. Whiteman, & R. Preece (Eds.), The Quaternary of Norfolk and Suffolk (77-85)
• Long, A., & Roberts, D. (1997). Sea-level change. In M. Fulford, T. Champion, & A. Long (Eds.), England's Coastal Heritage: A Survey for English Heritage and the RCHME. English Heritage and the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (25-49). Archaeological Report

Journal Article

• Roberts, D., Evans, D., Lodwick, J., & Cox, N. (online). British–Irish Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum at Upgang, North Yorkshire, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.08.009
• Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., Bateman, M. D., Ely, J., Medialdea, A., Burke, M. J., Chiverrell, R. C., Clark, C. D., & Fabel, D. (in press). A chronology for North Sea Lobe advance and recession on the Lincolnshire and Norfolk coasts during MIS 2 and 6. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.10.004
• Davies, B., Roberts, D., O Cofaigh, C., & Bridgland, D. (online). Subglacial and ice marginal controls on sediment deposition during the last glacial maximum: interlobate ice sheet dynamics at Whitburn Bay, County Durham, England
• Chandler, B. M., Evans, D. J., Chandler, S. J., Ewertowski, M. W., Lovell, H., Roberts, D. H., Schaefer, M., & Tomczyk, A. M. (in press). The glacial landsystem of Fjallsjökull, Iceland: Spatial and temporal evolution of process-form regimes at an active temperate glacier. Geomorphology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107192
• Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., & Phillips, E. (2024). The late Quaternary glacial depositional environment at Filey Bay, eastern England: Accretionary mechanisms for thick sequences of tills and stratified diamictons. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 135(3), 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.01.003
• Balaban, C., Roberts, D., Evans, D., & Jamieson, S. (2024). Past glaciation of temperate‐continental mountains: A model for a debris‐charged plateau icefield/cirque glacier landsystem in the Southern Carpathians, Romania. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(2), 601-621. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5723
• Lane, T., Darvill, C., Rea, B., Bentley, M., Smith, J., Jamieson, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Roberts, D. (2023). The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 48(7), 1321-1341. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5552
• Lloyd, J., Ribeiro, S., Weckström, K., Callard, L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Leng, M., Gulliver, P., & Roberts, D. (2023). Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108068
• Newton, M., Stokes, C. R., Roberts, D. H., & Evans, D. J. (2023). Characteristics and formation of bedrock mega-grooves (BMGs) in glaciated terrain: 1 - morphometric analyses. Geomorphology, 427, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108619
• Evans, D. J., Newton, M., Roberts, D. H., & Stokes, C. R. (2023). Characteristics and formation of bedrock mega-grooves (BMGs) in glaciated terrain: 2 – conceptual models of BMG initiation. Geomorphology, 427, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108620
• Bentley, M. J., Smith, J. A., Jamieson, S. S., Lindeman, M. R., Rea, B. R., Humbert, A., Lane, T. P., Darvill, C. M., Lloyd, J. M., Straneo, F., Helm, V., & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Direct measurement of warm Atlantic Intermediate Water close to the grounding line of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden (79° N) Glacier, northeast Greenland. The Cryosphere, 17(5), 1821-1837. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1821-2023
• Smith, J. A., Callard, L., Bentley, M. J., Jamieson, S. S., Sánchez-Montes, M. L., Lane, T. P., Lloyd, J. M., McClymont, E. L., Darvill, C. M., Rea, B. R., O'Cofaigh, C., Gulliver, P., Ehrmann, W., Jones, R. S., & Roberts, D. H. (2023). Holocene history of the 79° N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments. The Cryosphere, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1247-2023
• Clark, C. D., Ely, J. C., Hindmarsh, R. C., Bradley, S., Ignéczi, A., Fabel, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Scourse, J., Benetti, S., Bradwell, T., Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., Burke, M., Callard, S. L., Medialdea, A., Saher, M., Small, D., Smedley, R. K., Gasson, E., …Wilson, P. (2022). Growth and retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, 31 000 to 15 000 years ago: the BRITICE‐CHRONO reconstruction. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 51(4), 699-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12594
• Evans, D. J., Ewertowski, M., Roberts, D. H., & Tomczyk, A. M. (2022). The historical emergence of a geometric and sinuous ridge network at the Hørbyebreen polythermal glacier snout, Svalbard and its use in the interpretation of ancient glacial landforms. Geomorphology, 406, Article 108213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2022.108213
• Bradwell, T., Fabel, D., Clark, C. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Small, D., Smedley, R. K., Saher, M. H., Moreton, S. G., Dove, D., Callard, S. L., Duller, G. A., Medialdea, A., Bateman, M. D., Burke, M. J., McDonald, N., Gilgannon, S., Morgan, S., Roberts, D. H., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet advance and retreat over the last 45 000 years: evidence from NW Scotland and the adjacent continental shelf. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 871 - 933. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3296
• Scourse, J., Chiverrell, R., Smedley, R., Small, D., Burke, M., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Duller, G., Cofaigh, C. Ó., Bateman, M., Benetti, S., Bradley, S., Callard, L., Evans, D., Fabel, D., Jenkins, G., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S., Ou, X., …Clark, C. (2021). Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 780-804. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3313
• Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Clark, C. D., Chiverrell, R. C., Saher, M. H., Dove, D., Callard, S. L., Burke, M. J., Moreton, S. G., Medialdea, A., Bateman, M. D., Roberts, D. H., Golledge, N. R., Finlayson, A., Morgan, S., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2021). Pattern, style and timing of British–Irish Ice Sheet retreat: Shetland and northern North Sea sector. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 681-722. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3163
• Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., Bateman, M. D., Clark, C. D., Medialdea, A., Callard, L., Grimoldi, E., Chiverrell, R. C., Ely, J., Dove, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Saher, M., Bradwell, T., Moreton, S. G., Fabel, D., & Bradley, S. L. (2021). Retreat dynamics of the eastern sector of the British–Irish Ice Sheet during the last glaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 723-751. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3275
• Ó Cofaigh, C., Callrd, S., Roberts, D., Chiverrell, R., Ballantyne, C., Evans, D., Saher, M., Van Landeghem, K., Smedley, R., Benetti, S., Burke, M., Clark, C., Duller, G., Fabel, D., Livingstone, S., McCarron, S., Medialdea, A., Moreton, S., & Sacchetti, F. (2021). Timing and pace of ice-sheet withdrawal across the marine-terrestrial transition west of Ireland during the last glaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(5), 805-832. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3295
• Innes, J., Mitchell, W., O’Brien, C., Roberts, D., Rutherford, M., & Bridgland, D. (2021). A Detailed Record of Deglacial and Early Post-Glacial Fluvial Evolution: The River Ure in North Yorkshire, UK. Quaternary, 4(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010009
• Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Ballantyne, C., Burke, M., Chiverrell, R., Evans, D., Clark, C., Duller, G., Ely, J., Fabel, D., Small, D., Smedley, R., & Callard, S. (2020). The deglaciation of the western sector of the Irish Ice Sheet from the inner continental shelf to its terrestrial margin. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 49(3), 438-460. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12448
• Chandler, B. M., Chandler, S. J., Evans, D. J., Ewertowski, M. W., Lovell, H., Roberts, D. H., Schaefer, M., & Tomczyk, A. M. (2020). Sub‐annual moraine formation at an active temperate Icelandic glacier. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(7), 1622-1643. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4835
• Schaffer, J., Kanzow, T., von Appen, W.-J., von Albedyll, L., Arndt, J. E., & Roberts, D. H. (2020). Bathymetry constrains ocean heat supply to Greenland’s largest glacier tongue. Nature Geoscience, 13(3), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0529-x
• Davies, B., Livingstone, S., Roberts, D., Evans, D., Gheorghiu, D., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Dynamic ice stream retreat in the central sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, Article 105989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105989
• Jess, S., Stephenson, R., Roberts, D. H., & Brown, R. (2019). Differential erosion of a Mesozoic rift flank: Establishing the source of topography across Karrat, central West Greenland. Geomorphology, 334, 138-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.026
• Roberts, D. H., Grimoldi, E., Callard, L., Evans, D. J., Clark, C. D., Stewart, H. A., Dove, D., Saher, M., Ó Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Bateman, M. D., Moreton, S. G., Bradwell, T., Fabel, D., & Medialdea, A. (2019). The mixed‐bed glacial landform imprint of the North Sea Lobe in the western North Sea. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(6), 1233-1258. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4569
• Bradwell, T., Small, D., Fabel, D., Smedley, R. K., Clark, C. C., Saher, M. H., Callard, S. L., Chiverrell, R. C., Dove, D., Moreton, S. G., Roberts, D. H., Duller, G. A., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2019). Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength. Science Advances, 5(4), Article eaau1380. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau1380
• Ewertowski, M. W., Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., Tomczyk, A. M., Ewertowski, W., & Pleksot, K. (2019). Quantification of historical landscape change on the foreland of a receding polythermal glacier, Hørbyebreen, Svalbard. Geomorphology, 325, 40-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.027
• Ewertowski, M., Tomczyk, A., Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., & Ewertowski, W. (2019). Operational Framework for Rapid, Very-high Resolution Mapping of Glacial Geomorphology Using Low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Structure-from-Motion Approach. Remote Sensing, 11(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11010065
• Evans, D. J., Dinnage, M., & Roberts, D. H. (2018). Glacial geomorphology of Teesdale, northern Pennines, England: Implications for upland styles of ice stream operation and deglaciation in the British-Irish Ice Sheet. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 129(6), 697-735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.05.001
• Evans, D. J., Roberts, D. H., Bateman, M. D., Medialdea, A., Ely, J., Moreton, S. G., Clark, C. D., & Fabel, D. (2018). Sedimentation during MIS 3 at the eastern margins of the Glacial Lake Humber basin, England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 38(3), 871-891. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3066
• Chiverrell, R., Smedley, R., Small, D., Ballantyne, C., Burke, M., Callard, S., Clark, C., Duller, G., Evans, D., Fabel, D., van Landeghem, K., Livingstone, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Thomas, G., Roberts, D., Saher, M., Scourse, J., & Wilson, P. (2018). Ice margin oscillations during deglaciation of the northern Irish Sea Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(7), 739-762. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3057
• Newton, M., Evans, D., Roberts, D., & Stokes, C. (2018). Bedrock mega-grooves in glaciated terrain: a review. Earth-Science Reviews, 185, 57-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.03.007
• Roberts, D. H., Evans, D. J., Callard, S. L., Clark, C. D., Bateman, M. D., Medialdea, A., Dove, D., Cotterill, C. J., Saher, M., Ó Cofaigh, C., Chiverrell, R. C., Moreton, S. G., Fabel, D., & Bradwell, T. (2018). Ice marginal dynamics of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet in the southern North Sea: Ice limits, timing and the influence of the Dogger Bank. Quaternary Science Reviews, 198, 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.010
• Barlow, N., McClymont, E., Whitehouse, P., Stokes, C., Jamieson, S., Woodroffe, S., Bentley, M., Callard, S., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D., Horrocks, J., Lloyd, J., Long, A., Margold, M., Roberts, D., & Sanchez-Montes, M. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 11, 627-634. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0195-4
• Evans, D., Bateman, M., Roberts, D., Medialdea, A., Hayes, L., Duller, G., Fabel, D., & Clark, C. (2017). Glacial Lake Pickering: stratigraphy and chronology of a proglacial lake dammed by the North Sea Lobe of the British–Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 32(2), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2833
• Ewertowski, M., Evans, D., Roberts, D., & Tomczyk, A. (2016). Glacial geomorphology of the terrestrial margins of the tidewater glacier, Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard. Journal of Maps, 12(sup1), 476-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2016.1192329
• Chandler, B., Evans, D., Roberts, D., Ewertowski, M., & Clayton, A. (2016). Glacial geomorphology of the Skálafellsjökull foreland, Iceland: A case study of ‘annual’ moraines. Journal of Maps, 12(5), 904-916. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2015.1096216
• Evans, D., Roberts, D., & Evans, S. (2016). Multiple subglacial till deposition: a modern exemplar for Quaternary palaeoglaciology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 145, 183-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.029
• Rooney, A., Selby, D., Lloyd, J., Roberts, D., Lückge, A., Sageman, B., & Prouty, N. (2016). Tracking millennial-scale Holocene glacial advance and retreat using osmium isotopes: Insights from the Greenland ice sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 138, 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.021
• Lane, T., Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Rea, B., & Vieli, A. (2016). Glacial landscape evolution in the Uummannaq region, West Greenland. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 45(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12150
• Chandler, B., Evans, D., & Roberts, D. (2016). Characteristics of recessional moraines at a temperate glacier in SE Iceland: Insights into patterns, rates and drivers of glacier retreat. Quaternary Science Reviews, 135, 171-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.01.025
• Lane, T., Roberts, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Vieli, A., & Moreton, S. (2015). The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland. Arktos (Cham. Internet), 1(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41063-015-0017-5
• Livingstone, S., Roberts, D., Davies, B., Evans, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Gheorghiu, D. (2015). Late Devensian deglaciation of the Tyne Gap Palaeo-Ice Stream, northern England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30(8), 790-804. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2813
• Stokes, C., Tarasov, L., Blomdin, R., Cronin, T., Fisher, T., Gyllencreutz, R., Hättestrand, C., Heyman, J., Hindmarsh, R., Hughes, A., Jakobsson, M., Kirchner, N., Livingstone, S., Margold, M., Murton, J., Noormets, R., Peltier, W., Peteet, D., Piper, D., Preusser, F., …Teller, J. (2015). On the Reconstruction of Palaeo-Ice Sheets: Recent Advances and Future Challenges. Quaternary Science Reviews, 125, 15-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.016
• Evans, D., Roberts, D., & O'Cofaigh, C. (2015). Drumlin sedimentology in a hard-bed, lowland setting, Connemara, western Ireland: implications for subglacial bedform generation in areas of sparse till cover. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30(6), 537-557. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2801
• Yde, J., Knudsen, N., Steffensen, J., Carrivick, J., Hasholt, B., Ingeman-Nielsen, T., Kronborg, C., Larsen, N., Mernild, S., Oerter, H., Roberts, D., & Russell, A. (2015). Spatiotemporal variability of oxygen isotope compositions in three contrasting glacier river catchments in Greenland. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 12(6), 5841-5893. https://doi.org/10.5194/hessd-12-5841-2015
• Lane, T., Roberts, D., Rea, B., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Vieli, A. (2015). Controls on subglacial bedrock bedform development at the base of the Uummannaq Ice Stream, West Greenland. Geomorphology, 231, 301-313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.12.019
• Lane, T., Roberts, D., Rea, B., Ó Cofaigh, C., Vieli, A., & Rodés, A. (2014). Controls upon the Last Glacial Maximum deglaciation of the northern Uummannaq Ice Stream System, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 92, 324-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.013
• Roberts, D., Rea, B., Lane, T., Schnabel, C., & Rodés, A. (2013). New constraints on Greenland ice sheet dynamics during the last glacial cycle: evidence from the Uummannaq ice stream system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 118(2), 519-541. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrf.20032
• Davies, B., Roberts, D., Bridgland, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Riding, J., Demarchi, B., Penkman, K., & Pawley, S. (2012). Timing and depositional environments of a Middle Pleistocene glaciation of northeast England: New evidence from Warren House Gill, County Durham. Quaternary Science Reviews, 44, 180-212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.003
• Livingstone, S., Evans, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., Davies, B., Merritt, J., Huddart, D., Mitchell, W., Roberts, D., & Yorke, L. (2012). Glaciodynamics of the central sector of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet in Northern England. Earth-Science Reviews, 111, 25-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.12.006
• Davies, B., Roberts, D., Bridgland, D., Ó Cofaigh, C., & Riding, J. (2011). Provenance and depositional environments of Quaternary sediments from the western North Sea Basin. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1426
• Davies, B., Roberts, D., Bridgland, D., & Ó Cofaigh, C. (2011). Dynamic Devensian ice flow in NE England: a sedimentological reconstruction. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 41, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00237.x
• Roberts, D., Long, A., Davies, B., Simpson., M., & Schnabel, C. (2010). Ice stream influence on West Greenland Ice Sheet dynamics during the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1354
• Roberts, D., Long, A., Schnabel, C., Davies, B., Simpson., M., Sheng, X., & Huybrechts, P. (2009). Ice sheet extent and early deglacial history of the southwestern sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(25-26), 2760-2773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.07.002
• Davies, B., Bridgland, D., Roberts, D., O´Cofaigh, C., Pawley, S., Candy, I., Demarchi, B., Penkman, K., & Austin, W. (2009). The age and stratigraphic context of the Easington Raised Beach, County Durham, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 120(4), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.04.001
• Long, A., Woodroffe, S., Dawson, S., Roberts, D., & Bryant, L. (2009). Late Holocene relative sea level rise and the Neoglacial history of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24(4), 345-359. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1235
• Roberts, D., Yde, J., Long, A., Knudsen, N., & Lloyd, J. (2009). Ice marginal dynamics during surge activity, Kuannersuit Glacier, Disko Island, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(3-4), 209-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.022
• Long, A., Roberts, D., Simpson, M., Dawson, S., Milne, G., & Huybrechts, P. (2008). Late Weichselian relative sea-level changes and ice sheet history in southeast Greenland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 272(1-2), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.042
• Roberts, D., Long, A., Schnabel, C., Simpson, M., & Freeman, S. (2008). The deglacial history of the southeast sector of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27(15-16), 1505-1516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.04.008
• Roberts, D., Dackombe, R., & Thomas, G. (2007). Palaeo ice streaming in the central sector of the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum: evidence from the northern Irish Sea Basin. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 36(2), 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480600991219
• Engelhart, S., Horton, B., Roberts, D., Bryant, C., & Reide Corbett, D. (2007). Mangrove Pollen of Indonesia and its suitability as a sea-level indicator. Marine Geology, 242, 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2007.02.020
• Roberts, D., Chiverrell, R., Innes, J., Horton, B., Brooks, A., Thomas, G., Turner, S., & Gonzalez, S. (2006). Holocene sea levels, Last Glacial Maximum glaciomarine environments and geophysical models in the northern Irish Sea Basin, UK. Marine Geology, 231(1-4), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2006.05.005
• Long, A., Roberts, D., & Dawson, S. (2006). Early Holocene history of the west Greenland Ice Sheet and the GH-8.2 event. Quaternary Science Reviews, 25(9-10), 904-922. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.07.002
• Roberts, D., & Long, A. (2005). Streamlined bedrock terrain and fast ice flow, Jakobshavns Isbrae, West Greenland: implications for ice stream and ice sheet dynamics. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 34(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01002.x
• Roberts, D., & Hart, J. (2005). The deforming bed characteristics of a stratified till assemblage in north East Anglia, UK: investigating controls on sediment rheology and strain signatures. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(1-2), 123-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.03.004
• Long, A., Roberts, D., & Rasch, M. (2003). New observations on the relative sea level and deglacial history of Greenland from Innaarsuit, Disko Bugt. Quaternary Research, 60(2), 162-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0033-5894%2803%2900085-1
• Long, A., & Roberts, D. (2003). Late Weichselian deglacial history of Disko Bugt, West Greenland, and the dynamics of the Jakobshavns Isbrae ice stream. Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research, 32(1), 208-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480310001119
• Long, A., & Roberts, D. (2002). A revised chronology for the 'Fjord Stade' moraine in Disko Bugt, west Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 17(5-6), 561-579. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.705
• Long, A., Roberts, D., & Wright, M. (1999). Isolation basin stratigraphy and Holocene relative sea-level change on Arveprinsen Ejland, Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 14(4), 323-345
• Evans, D., Owen, L., & Roberts, D. (1995). Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Devensian (Dimlington-Stadial) glacial deposits, East Yorkshire, England. Journal of Quaternary Science, 10(3), 241-265
• Hart, J., & Roberts, D. (1994). Criteria to distinguish between glaciotectonic and glaciomarine sedimentation: I-Deformational styles and sedimentology. Sedimentary Geology, 91, 191-213