Dr Joseph Graly

Assistant Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research focuses on the chemical and physical processes occurring beneath the world’s large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. I seek to understand the connections between the glacial processes, resultant geochemical effects, and feedbacks to global geochemical cycling. Methods employed include hydrochemistry, mineralogy, stable isotopes and cosmogenic isotopes.

Key Publications

Ice dynamic and hydrological response to ice-dammed lake drainages at Isunnguata Sermia, West Greenland, Livingstone, S., Storrar, R., Doyle, S., Thorpe, S., Moffatt, A., Sole, A., Chudley, T., Gimbert, F., Graly, J., Licht, K., Winter, K., Jayarapu, A., Bagshaw, E., Barruol, G., Bauer, K., Bianchi, G., Buzzard, S., Clason, C., Craw, L., Davison, B., Edwards, L., Gilhooly, B., Hamilton, T., Hansen, C., Hawkins, J., Ing, R., Jatta, M., Jones, A., Kennedy, T., Killingbeck, S., Le Bris, T., McCerery, R., Messerli, A., Michel, A., Napoleoni, F., Peacey, M., Prior-Jones, M., Ross, N., Veness, R., Woodie, K., Young, T., Hepburn, A., Booth, A. 27 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Glaciology
Thinning Antarctic glaciers expose high-altitude nunataks delivering more bioavailable iron to the Southern Ocean, Winter, K., Woodward, J., Dunning, S., Jordan, J., Graly, J., Westoby, M., Henley, S., Raiswell, R. 24 Nov 2025, In: Nature Communications
Geological and glacial-hydrologic controls on chemical weathering in the subglacial environment, Graly, J., Rezvanbehbahani, S. 1 Sep 2023, In: Annals of Glaciology
Meteoric 10be speciation in subglacial sediments of east Antarctica, Arnardóttir, E., Graly, J., Licht, K., Bish, D., Caffee, M. Jul 2023, In: Quaternary Geochronology
Paleoglaciology of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet as revealed by blue-ice sediment, Kaplan, M., Licht, K., Lamp, J., Winckler, G., Schaefer, J., Graly, J., Kassab, C., Schwartz, R. 15 Feb 2023, In: Quaternary Science Reviews
Chemical weathering signatures at Mt. Achernar, Central Transantarctic Mountains II: Surface exposed sediments, Graly, J., Licht, K., Bader, N., Kassab, C., Bish, D., Kaplan, M. 1 Oct 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Measuring multiple cosmogenic nuclides in glacial cobbles sheds light on Greenland Ice Sheet processes, Corbett, L., Bierman, P., Neumann, T., Graly, J., Shakun, J., Goehring, B., Hidy, A., Caffee, M. 15 Jan 2021, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Chemical weathering signatures from Mt. Achernar Moraine, Central Transantarctic Mountains I: Subglacial sediments compared with underlying rock, Graly, J., Licht, K., Bader, N., Bish, D. 15 Aug 2020, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Corrigendum to “Meteoric ¹⁰Be as a tracer of subglacial processes and interglacial surface exposure in Greenland” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 191 (2018) 118–131] (Quaternary Science Reviews (2018) 191 (118–131), (S0277379118300349), (10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.009)), Graly, J., Corbett, L., Bierman, P., Lini, A., Neumann, T. 1 Jul 2020, In: Quaternary Science Reviews
Formation and evolution of an extensive blue ice moraine in central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica, Kassab, C., Licht, K., Petersson, R., Lindbäck, K., Graly, J., Kaplan, M. 1 Feb 2020, In: Journal of Glaciology

Current and Recent Projects

Chemistry and biology under low hydrolic conditions beneath the Greeenland Ice sheet, revealed through naturally emerging overwinter conditions, Graly, J. (Principal Investigator), Natural Environment Research Council, 01/09/21 - 31/08/24, £304,886.00

Professional Activity

Other: Geochemistry of Jan Mayen subglacial outlet streams 2020
Other: Chemical Weathering Under East Antarctica 2018

PGR Supervision

Aaditya Kapil ??From atmospheric delivery to mineralogical retention: Meteoric ¹°Be as a temporal tracer of chemical weathering in glacial environments? Start Date: 01/10/2022
Aaditya Kapil Meteoric 10Be as a tracer of chemical weathering in glacial sediments Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025

Qualifications

Geology PhD June 30 2016

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