Dr Iestyn Woolway
NERC Independent Research Fellow
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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
- Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
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Citizen science shows systematic changes in the temperature difference between air and inland waters with global warming
University, U., Mackay, M., Stockwell, J. D., Thiery, W., Grossart, H-P., Augusto-Silva, P. B., Baulch, H. M., de Eyto, E., Hejzlar, J., Kangur, K., Kirillin, G., University, U., Rusak, J. A., Davis, U. O. & Reading, U., 6 Mar 2017, In: Scientific Reports. 7Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate change drives rapid warming and increasing heatwaves of lakes
Wang, X., Shi, K., Zhang, Y., Qin, B., Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Woolway, R. I., Piao, S. & Jeppesen, E., 30 Jul 2023, In: Science bulletin. 68, 14, p. 1574-1584 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat
Kraemer, B. M., Pilla, R. M., Woolway, R. I., Anneville, O., Ban, S., Colom-Montero, W., Devlin, S. P., Dokulil, M. T., Gaiser, E. E., Hambright, K. D., Hessen, D. O., Higgins, S. N., Johnk, K. D., Keller, W., Knoll, L. B., Leavitt, P. R., Lepori, F., Luger, M. S., Maberly, S. C., Mueller-Navarra, D. C., Paterson, A. M., Pierson, D. C., Richardson, D. C., Rogora, M., Rusak, J. A., Sadro, S., Salmaso, N., Schmid, M., Silow, E. A., Sommaruga, R., Stelzer, J. A. A., Straile, D., Thiery, W., Timofeyev, M. A., Verburg, P., Weyhenmeyer, G. A. & Adrian, R., 3 Jun 2021, In: Nature Climate Change. 11, 6, p. 521-529Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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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Climate velocity in inland standing waters
Woolway, R. I. & Maberly, S. C., 1 Dec 2020, In: Nature Climate Change. 10, 12, p. 1124-U91Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Compound hot temperature and high chlorophyll extreme events in global lakes
Woolway, R. I., Kraemer, B. M., Zscheischler, J. & Albergel, C., 16 Dec 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 12, 124066.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Consequences of gas flux model choice on the interpretation of metabolic balance across 15 lakes
Dugan, H. A., Woolway, R. I., Santoso, A. B., Corman, J. R., Jaimes, A., Nodine, E. R., Patil, V. P., Zwart, J. A., Brentrup, J. A., Hetherington, A. L., Oliver, S. K., Read, J. S., Winters, K. M., Hanson, P. C., Read, E. K., Winslow, L. A. & Weathers, K. C., 2 Nov 2016, In: INLAND WATERS. 6, 4, p. 581-592Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Delving deeper: Metabolic processes in the metalimnion of stratified lakes
Giling, D. P., Staehr, P. A., Grossart, H. P., Andersen, M. R., Boehrer, B., Escot, C., Evrendilek, F., Gomez-Gener, L., Honti, M., Jones, I. D., Karakaya, N., Laas, A., Moreno-Ostos, E., Rinke, K., Scharfenberger, U., Schmidt, S. R., Weber, M., Woolway, R. I., Zwart, J. A. & Obrador, B., 1 May 2017, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 62, 3, p. 1288-1306Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Detecting climate-related shifts in lakes: A review of the use of satellite Earth Observation
Calamita, E., Lever, J. J., Albergel, C., Woolway, R. I. & Odermatt, D., 1 Apr 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 69, 4, p. 723-741 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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, 3Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review