I am working with Anna Crawford on the ARIA funded GIANT project coordinated by British Antarctic Survey. My research focuses on modelling glacier calving dynamics from fine scale serac events to ice shelf collapse.
I was previously a post-doc at the University of St Andrews working on the development of calving functions for continuum glacier models. During my PhD I developed a 3D calving model for Elmer/Ice.
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Calving laws and where to find them
Benn DI, Wheel I, Christoffersen P, ?str?m J, Cook SJ, Luckman A, Nick F, Hulton N, Hewitt I & Bassis J (2026) Calving laws and where to find them. Journal of Glaciology, 72. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2026.10128
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A new 3D?full-Stokes calving algorithm within Elmer/Ice (v9.0)
Wheel I, Benn DI, Crawford AJ, Todd J & Zwinger T (2024) A new 3D?full-Stokes calving algorithm within Elmer/Ice (v9.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 17 (14), pp. 5759-5777. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5759-2024
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Wheel I, Crawford AJ & Benn DI (2024) Calving dynamics at Jakobshavn Isbrae (Sermeq Kujalleq) controlled by local geometry: insights from a 3D Stokes calving model. Journal of Glaciology, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.77
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Coupled 3-D full-Stokes modelling of tidewater glaciers
Cook SJ, Christoffersen P & Wheel I (2022) Coupled 3-D full-Stokes modelling of tidewater glaciers. Annals of Glaciology, 63 (87-89), pp. 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2023.4