Staff profile

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

Journal Article

• Sedimentological reconstruction of Glan-y-môr Isaf, North Wales: A model for the formation of stratified subglacial till assemblages from glaciolacustrine deposits
  
  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
• Mass Loss of Glaciers and Ice Caps Across Greenland Since the Little Ice Age
  
  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
• 60 million years of glaciation in the Transantarctic Mountains
  
  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
• Controls on the altitude of Scandinavian cirques: What do they tell us about palaeoclimate?
  
  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
• Testing the area–altitude balance ratio (AABR) and accumulation–area ratio (AAR) methods of calculating glacier equilibrium-line altitudes
  
  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
• Cool deltas: Sedimentological, geomorphological and geophysical characterization of ice‐contact deltas and implications for their reservoir properties (Salpausselkä, Finland)
  
  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
• Climatic controls on the equilibrium-line altitudes of Scandinavian cirque glaciers
  
  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