About US

Rivers of Ice is an educational science website dedicated to making Earth and Climate science accessible to all. As well as weekly articles for all on aspects of climate science, Rivers of Ice is expanding into providing educational resources for teachers and students.

About Our Writer

Dr Rachel M. Lamb holds a PhD from the Unversity of Manchester in the glacial history of the North Sea and glacial sesimic stratigraphy. She has worked on paleoclimate projects based on northern Europe and Antarctica alongside the British Geological Survey and the Alfred Wegener Insitute for Marine and Polar Science, in Germany. In addition, she has presented science at conferences across the world including the US, Japan, South Korea and Europe.

She currently focuses on science outreach, particularly writing science articles for non-scientists on climate change and glaciology.

Originally from Manchester, she studied in Edinburgh and Manchester before spending four years working in Germany. Beyond talking about science, Rachel loves books, gaming and cats.

Get in touch

Rachel is always available for side collaborations and to give talks on climate and earth science. If you want to chat about our climate, working in science or anything else, don’t hesitate in reaching out.

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Published Articles

‘Early Quaternary sedimentary processes and palaeoenvironments in the Central North Sea’
Journal of Quaternary Science
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2894

‘The early Quaternary North Sea Basin.’
Journal of the Geological Society
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2017-057

‘Evidence for a grounded ice sheet in the central North Sea during the early Middle Pleistocene Don Glaciation’
Journal of the Geological Society
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2017-073

‘Extensive marine-terminating ice sheets in Europe from 2.5 million years ago’
Science Advances
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar8327

‘Evidence for a Highly Dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Pliocene.’
Geophysical Research Letters
DOI: 10.1029/2021GL093103

Conference Presentations

‘Depositional history of the West Antarctic continental margin off Marie Byrd Land and the implication for a dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet’
American Geophysica Union Fall Meeting, 2021

‘Seismic stratigraphy of the upper continental rise and abyssal plain off Marie Byrd Land.’
International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science, 2019

‘Evolution of ice sheets in the early Quaternary of the central North Sea: 2.58 Ma to 0.78 Ma.’
American Geophysica Union Fall Meeting Fall Meeting, 2016

‘Early Quaternary Stratigraphy of the central North Sea.’
International Union for Quaternary Science Congress, 2015