COOK Samuel

Postdoc on ANR-MAGIC
My PhD focused on developing a fully-coupled model of a tidewater glacier, using the open-source, 3D, Full-Stokes glacial flow model, Elmer/Ice, including calving, linked to a subglacial hydrology model (GlaDS) and a plume model. Currently, I am working on data assimilation within Elmer/Ice as part of the MAGIC project.

Career
2021- Postdoctoral researcher at Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, France. Funded by Agence Nationale de Recherche.
2016-2021 PhD in Polar Studies. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), UK. Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council
2015-2016. MPhil (Distinction) in Polar Studies. Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), UK. Thesis : Blink and You’ll Miss It : An Investigation Into Glacier Surging on Flade Isblink. Partly funded by the Newton Trust.
2013-2015. Graduate Business Analyst, EDF Energy.
2010-2013. MA (Cantab.) (1st class) in Geography. University of Cambridge (Selwyn College), UK. Thesis on proglacial hydrology of Storglaciaren, Sweden.

Awards and grants
PhD Studentship (2016), Cambridge Earth System Science Doctoral Training Partnership, National Environmental Research Council, £86,000.
Newton College Master’s Studentship (2015), Cambridge Trust, £12,000.
Lyttelton Scholarship (2011-2013), Selwyn College, £50.

Publications
Cook, S. J., Christoffersen, P., Truffer, M., Chudley, T. R., & Abellán, A. (2021). Calving of a Large Greenlandic Tidewater Glacier has Complex Links to Meltwater Plumes and Mélange. Journal of Geophysical Research : Earth Surface, 126(4), e2020JF006051. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF006051

Cook, S. J., Christoffersen, P., Todd, J., Slater, D., and Chauché, N. : Coupled modelling of subglacial hydrology and calving-front melting at Store Glacier, West Greenland , The Cryosphere, 14, 905–924, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-905-2020, 2020.