Dr Iestyn Woolway

NERC Independent Research Fellow

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

  1. Article › Research › Peer-reviewed
  2. Published

    Multi-decadal change in summer mean water temperature in Lake Konnevesi, Finland (1984–2021)

    Noori, R., Woolway, R. I., Jun, C., Bateni, S. M., Naderian, D., Partani, S., Maghrebi, M. & Pulkkanen, M., 1 Dec 2023, In: Ecological Informatics. 78, 102331.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Multi-model projections of future evaporation in a sub-tropical lake

    La Fuente, S., Jennings, E., Gal, G., Kirillin, G., Shatwell, T., Ladwig, R., Moore, T., Couture, R-M., Cote, M., Vinna, C. L. R. & Woolway, R. I., Dec 2022, In: Journal of Hydrology. 615, 128729.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    National-scale remotely sensed lake trophic state from 1984 through 2020

    Meyer, M. F., Topp, S. N., King, T. V., Ladwig, R., Pilla, R. M., Dugan, H. A., Eggleston, J. R., Hampton, S. E., Leech, D. M., Oleksy, I. A., Ross, J. C., Ross, M. R. V., Woolway, R. I., Yang, X., Brousil, M. R., Fickas, K. C., Padowski, J. C., Pollard, A. I., Ren, J. & Zwart, J. A., 16 Jan 2024, In: Scientific data. 11, 1, p. 77

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Nonlinear responses in interannual variability of lake ice to climate change

    Richardson, D. C., Filazzola, A., Woolway, R. I., Imrit, M. A., Bouffard, D., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Magnuson, J. & Sharma, S., 1 Apr 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography. 69, 4, p. 789-801 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Numerical simulation of thermal stratification in Lake Qiandaohu using an improved WRF-Lake model

    Wang, X., Wang, W., He, Y., Zhang, S., Huang, W., Woolway, R. I., Shi, K. & Yang, X., 1 Mar 2023, In: Journal of Hydrology. 618, 129184.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    On thinning ice: Effects of atmospheric warming, changes in wind speed and rainfall on ice conditions in temperate lakes (Northern Poland)

    Bartosiewicz, M., Ptak, M., Woolway, R. I. & Sojka, M., 1 Jun 2021, In: Journal of Hydrology. 597, 125724.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change

    Woolway, R. I., Sharma, S., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Debolskiy, A., Golub, M., Mercado-Bettin, D., Perroud, M., Stepanenko, V., Tan, Z., Grant, L., Ladwig, R., Mesman, J., Moore, T. N., Shatwell, T., Vanderkelen, I., Austin, J. A., DeGasperi, C. L., Dokulil, M., La Fuente, S., Mackay, E. B., Schladow, S. G., Watanabe, S., Marce, R., Pierson, D. C., Thiery, W. & Jennings, E., 19 Apr 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 2318 (2021).

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. 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 journalArticlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Profound daily vertical stratification and mixing in a small, shallow, wind-exposed lake with submerged macrophytes

    Andersen, M. R., Sand-Jensen, K., Woolway, R. I. & Jones, I. D., Apr 2017, In: Aquatic Sciences. 79, 2, p. 395-406

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review