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Dr Iestyn Woolway

NERC Independent Research Fellow

Affiliations

ORCID: 0000-0003-0498-7968

Contact info

Room: 308 Craig Mair

Email: iestyn.woolway@bangor.ac.uk

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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

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  1. Published

    The pace of shifting seasons in lakes

    Woolway, R. I., 13 Apr 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 2101.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  2. Published

    A comparison of the diel variability in epilimnetic temperature for five lakes in the English Lake District

    Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Feuchtmayr, H. & Maberly, S. C., 20 Apr 2015, In: INLAND WATERS. 5, 2, p. 139-154

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  3. Published

    Lake heatwaves under climate change

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

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  4. Published

    Winter inverse lake stratification under historic and future climate change

    Woolway, R. I., Denfeld, B., Tan, Z., Jansen, J., Weyhenmeyer, G. A. & La Fuente, S., 1 Aug 2022, In: Limnology and Oceanography Letters. 7, 4, p. 302-311

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  5. Published

    Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems

    Woolway, R. I., Sharma, S. & Smol, J. P., 30 Oct 2022, In: BioScience. 72, 11, p. 1050-1061 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  6. Published

    Altitudinal dependence of a statistically significant diel temperature cycle in Scottish lochs

    Woolway, R. I., Livingstone, D. M. & Kernan, M., 26 Aug 2015, In: INLAND WATERS. 5, 4, p. 311-316

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  7. Published

    Severe Lake Heatwaves Attributable to Human-Induced Global Warming

    Woolway, I., Albergel, C., Froelicher, T. & Perroud, M., 28 Feb 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 4, 10 p., e2021GL097031.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  8. Published

    Automated calculation of surface energy fluxes with high-frequency lake buoy data

    Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Hamilton, D. P., Maberly, S. C., Muraoka, K., Read, J. S., Smyth, R. L. & Winslow, L. A., 1 Aug 2015, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 70, p. 191-198

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  9. Published

    Warming of Central European lakes and their response to the 1980s climate regime shift

    Woolway, R. I., Dokulil, M. T., Marszelewski, W., Schmid, M., Bouffard, D. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Jun 2017, In: Climatic Change. 142, 3-4, p. 505-520

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  10. Published

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

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 27 Mar 2018, In: Journal of Geophysical Research : Atmospheres. 123, 6, p. 3087-3098

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  11. Published

    Physical and chemical impacts of a major storm on a temperate lake: a taste of things to come?

    Woolway, R. I., Simpson, J. H., Spiby, D., Feuchtmayr, H., Powell, B. & Maberly, S. C., Nov 2018, In: Climatic Change. 151, 2, p. 333-347

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  12. Published

    Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 1 Apr 2019, In: Nature Geoscience. 12, 4, p. 271-276

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  13. Published

    A novel method for estimating the onset of thermal stratification in lakes from surface water measurements

    Woolway, R. I., Maberly, S. C., Jones, I. D. & Feuchtmayr, H., 25 Jun 2014, In: WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH. 50, 6, p. 5131-5140

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  14. Published

    Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Stilling Accelerates Lake Thermal Responses to a Warming World

    Woolway, R. I., Merchant, C. J., Van Den Hoek, J., Azorin-Molina, C., Noges, P., Laas, A., Mackay, E. B. & Jones, I. D., 16 Nov 2019, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 46, 21, p. 11983-11992

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  15. Published

    Diel Surface Temperature Range Scales with Lake Size

    Woolway, R. I., Jones, I. D., Maberly, S. C., French, J. R., Livingstone, D. M., Monteith, D. T., Simpson, G., Thackeray, S. J., Copenhagen, U., London, U., DeGasperi, C. L., Evans, C. D., de Eyto, E., Feuchtmayr, H., Hamilton, D., Kernan, M., Krokowski, J., Rimmer, A., Rose, K. C., Rusak, J. A., Ryves, D. B., Scott, D. R., Shilland, E. M., Smyth, R. L., Staehr, P. A., Thomas, R., Waldron, S. & Weyhenmeyer, G., 29 Mar 2016, In: PLoS ONE. 11, 3

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  16. Published

    Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change

    Woolway, R. I., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Schmid, M., Dokulil, M. T., de Eyto, E., Maberly, S. C., May, L. & Merchant, C. J., 15 May 2019, In: Climatic Change. 155, 1, p. 81-94

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  17. Published

    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 Sept 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 17, p. 8875-8883

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  18. Published

    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 Nov 2018, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 63, 6, p. 2436-2449

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  19. Published

    Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability

    Woolway, R. I. & Merchant, C. J., 23 Jun 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  20. Published

    Climate velocity in inland standing waters

    Woolway, R. I. & Maberly, S. C., 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Climate Change. 10, 12, p. 1124-U91

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  21. Published

    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 Oct 2022, In: Earth's Future. 10, 10, e2022EF002907.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  22. Published

    Climate tracking by freshwater fishes suggests that fish diversity in temperate lakes may be increasingly threatened by climate warming

    Wu, T., Imrit, M. A., Movahedinia, Z., Kong, J., Woolway, R. I. & Sharma, S., 1 Feb 2023, In: Diversity and Distributions. 29, 2, p. 300-315 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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