Dr Iestyn Woolway

Cymrawd Ymchwil Annibynnol NERC (Darllenydd)

Contact info

Room: 308 Craig Mair

Email: iestyn.woolway@bangor.ac.uk

Web: Google Scholar; Research Gate; Twitter

Dr Iestyn Woolway's research focuses on the physical interactions between climate and water, with a particular interest in the physics and hydrology of lakes worldwide. This includes aspects such as climate-induced variations in lake evaporation, water temperature, ice cover and energy fluxes. Using a combination of in-situ, satellite, and modelled data, his research aims to answer key questions that relate to climate-related changes of inland waters. He graduated from Bangor University in 2011 with a BSc and MSc in Physical Oceanography and then undertook a PhD in Physical Limnology at University College London (2011-2015). Dr Woolway was then a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading (2015-2018). In 2018, Dr Woolway was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, hosted at Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland), followed by a European Space Agency Fellowship in 2020 - based at the ESA Climate Office in Oxfordshire. In 2021, Dr Woolway was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship. He joined the School of Ocean Sciences as a NERC Independent Research Fellow (Reader) in 2022. In 2023 he was awarded a Dillwyn Medal for STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) from the Learned Society of Wales in recognition of early career research excellence for his work in the field of global environmental change. In 2024, he was awarded a Distinguished Scientist fellowship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences via the President's International Fellowship Initiative.

Research Areas

  1. Erthygl › Ymchwil › Adolygwyd gan gymheiriaid
  2. Cyhoeddwyd

    Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere

    Li, X., Peng, S., Xi, Y., Woolway, R. I. & Liu, G., 2 Medi 2022, Yn: Nature Communications. 13, 1, 5156.

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  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Energy input and dissipation in a temperate lake during the spring transition

    Woolway, R. & Simpson, J., Awst 2017, Yn: Ocean Dynamics. 67, 8, t. 959-971

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  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Ensemble modeling of global lake evaporation under climate change

    La Fuente, S., Jennings, E., Lenters, J. D., Verburg, P., Tan, Z., Perroud, M., Janssen, A. B. G. & Woolway, R. I., 1 Maw 2024, Yn: Journal of Hydrology. 631, 130647.

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Geographic and temporal variations in turbulent heat loss from lakes: A global analysis across 45 lakes

    Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Lenters, J. D., Merchant, C. J., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., de Eyto, E., Kelly, S., Healey, N. C., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rusak, J. A., Kuha, J., Karjalainen, J., Kallio, K., Lepistoe, A. & Jones, I. D., 1 Tach 2018, Yn: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 6, t. 2436-2449

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Glacier Surface Heatwaves Over the Tibetan Plateau

    Chen, W., Yao, T., Zhang, G., Woolway, R. I., Yang, W., Xu, F. & Zhou, T., 28 Maw 2023, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 50, 6, e2022GL101115.

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Global Heat Uptake by Inland Waters

    Vanderkelen, I., van Lipzig, N. P. M., Lawrence, D. M., Droppers, B., Golub, M., Gosling, S. N., Janssen, A. B. G., Marce, R., Schmied, H. M., Perroud, M., Pierson, D., Pokhrel, Y., Satoh, Y., Schewe, J., Seneviratne, S. . I., Stepanenko, V. M., Tan, Z., Woolway, R. . I. & Thiery, W., 28 Meh 2020, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 47, 12

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  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    Global increase in methane production under future warming of lake bottom waters

    Jansen, J., Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Albergel, C., Bastviken, D., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Marce, R., Sharma, S., Sobek, S., Tranvik, L. J., Perroud, M., Golub, M., Moore, T. N., Vinna, L. R., La Fuente, S., Grant, L., Pierson, D. C., Thiery, W. & Jennings, E., Medi 2022, Yn: Global Change Biology. 28, 18, t. 5427-5440 14 t.

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  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    Global lake responses to climate change

    Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Lenters, J. D., Merchant, C. J., O'Reilly, C. M. & Sharma, S., 1 Awst 2020, Yn: Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 1, t. 388-403

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  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Global lake thermal regions shift under climate change

    Maberly, S. C., O'Donnell, R. A., Woolway, R. I., Cutler, M. E. J., Gong, M., Jones, I. D., Merchant, C. J., Miller, C. A., Politi, E., Scott, E. M., Thackeray, S. J. & Tyler, A. N., 6 Maw 2020, Yn: Nature Communications. 11, 1

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  11. Cyhoeddwyd

    Global lakes are warming slower than surface air temperature due to accelerated evaporation

    Tong, Y., Feng, L., Wang, X., Pi, X., Xu, W. & Woolway, R. I., 23 Hyd 2023, Yn: Nature Water. 1, 11, t. 929-940 12 t.

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