Staff profile

• Palaeoglaciology, Glacial Geology, Geomorphology, Alpine, Cirque, and Mountain Glaciers, Palaeoclimatology, Greenland, Arctic, Scandinavia

Journal Article

• Powell, C. J., & Oien, R. P. (2025). Sedimentological reconstruction of Glan-y-môr Isaf, North Wales: A model for the formation of stratified subglacial till assemblages from glaciolacustrine deposits. Quaternary Science Reviews, 352, Article 109224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109224
• Carrivick, J. L., Boston, C. M., Sutherland, J. L., Pearce, D., Armstrong, H., Bjørk, A., Kjeldsen, K. K., Abermann, J., Oien, R. P., Grimes, M., James, W. H. M., & Smith, M. W. (2023). Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(10), Article e2023GL103950. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023gl103950
• Barr, I. D., Spagnolo, M., Rea, B. R., Bingham, R. G., Oien, R. P., Adamson, K., Ely, J. C., Mullan, D. J., Pellitero, R., & Tomkins, M. D. (2022). 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 5526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33310-z
• Oien, R. P., Barr, I. D., Spagnolo, M., Bingham, R. G., Rea, B. R., & Jansen, J. (2022). Controls on the altitude of Scandinavian cirques: What do they tell us about palaeoclimate?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 600, 111062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111062
• Oien, R. P., Rea, B. R., Spagnolo, M., Barr, I. D., & Bingham, R. G. (2022). Testing the area–altitude balance ratio (AABR) and accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods of calculating glacier equilibrium-line altitudes. Journal of Glaciology, 68(268), 357-368. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2021.100
• Kurjański, B., Rea, B. R., Spagnolo, M., Cornwell, D. G., Howell, J., Comte, J., González Quirós, A., Palmu, J., Oien, R. P., & Gibbard, P. L. (2021). Cool deltas: Sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical characterization of ice‐contact deltas and implications for their reservoir properties (Salpausselkä, Finland). Sedimentology, 68(7), 3057-3101. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12884
• Oien, R. P., Spagnolo, M., Rea, B. R., Barr, I. D., & Bingham, R. G. (2020). Climatic controls on the equilibrium-line altitudes of Scandinavian cirque glaciers. Geomorphology, 352, Article 106986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106986