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

    Global reconstruction of twentieth century lake surface water temperature reveals different warming trends depending on the climatic zone

    Piccolroaz, S., Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Meh 2020, Yn: Climatic Change. 160, 3, t. 427-442

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  3. Cyhoeddwyd

    Impact of the 2018 European heatwave on lake surface water temperature

    Woolway, R. I., Jennings, E. & Carrea, L., 2 Gorff 2020, Yn: INLAND WATERS. 10, 3, t. 322-332

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  4. Cyhoeddwyd

    Increasing maximum lake surface temperature under climate change

    Dokulil, M. T., Maberly, S. C., May, L., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Woolway, R. I. & de Eyto, E., 22 Ebr 2021, Yn: Climatic Change. 165, 56

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  5. Cyhoeddwyd

    Intralake Heterogeneity of Thermal Responses to Climate Change: A Study of Large Northern Hemisphere Lakes

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 27 Maw 2018, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres. 123, 6, t. 3087-3098

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  6. Cyhoeddwyd

    Lake Ice Will Be Less Safe for Recreation and Transportation Under Future Warming

    Woolway, R. I., Huang, L., Sharma, S., Lee, S-S., Rodgers, K. B. & Timmermann, A., 1 Hyd 2022, Yn: Earth's Future. 10, 10, e2022EF002907.

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  7. Cyhoeddwyd

    Lake Water Temperature Modeling in an Era of Climate Change: Data Sources, Models, and Future Prospects

    Piccolroaz, S., Zhu, S., Ladwig, R., Carrea, L., Oliver, S., Piotrowski, A. P., Ptak, M., Shinohara, R., Sojka, M., Woolway, R. I. & Zhu, D. Z., Maw 2024, Yn: Reviews of Geophysics. 62, 1, e2023RG000816.

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  8. Cyhoeddwyd

    Lake heatwaves under climate change

    Woolway, R. I., Jennings, E., Shatwell, T., Golub, M., Pierson, D. C. & Maberly, S. C., 20 Ion 2021, Yn: Nature. 589, t. 402-407

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  9. Cyhoeddwyd

    LakeMetabolizer: an R package for estimating lake metabolism from free-water oxygen using diverse statistical models

    Winslow, L. A., Zwart, J. A., Batt, R. D., Dugan, H. A., Woolway, R. I., Corman, J. R., Hanson, P. C. & Read, J. S., 2 Tach 2016, Yn: INLAND WATERS. 6, 4, t. 622-636

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  10. Cyhoeddwyd

    Latitude and lake size are important predictors of over-lake atmospheric stability

    Woolway, R. I., Verburg, P., Merchant, C. J., Lenters, J. D., Hamilton, D. P., Brookes, J., Kelly, S., Hook, S., Laas, A., Pierson, D., Rimmer, A., Rusak, J. A. & Jones, I. D., 16 Medi 2017, Yn: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 17, t. 8875-8883

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  11. Cyhoeddwyd

    Loss of Ice Cover, Shifting Phenology, and More Extreme Events in Northern Hemisphere Lakes

    Sharma, S., Richardson, D. C., Woolway, R. I., Imrit, M. A., Bouffard, D., Blagrave, K., Daly, J., Filazzola, A., Granin, N., Korhonen, J., Magnuson, J., Marszelewski, W., Matsuzaki, S-I. S., Perry, W., Robertson, D. M., Rudstam, L. G., Weyhenmeyer, G. A. & Yao, H., 1 Hyd 2021, Yn: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126, 10, e2021JG006348.

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