Deplete and Retreat Publications and Outputs

Publications and Outputs will be linked here when they are available.

Policy briefs

Davies et al., 2025. Policy brief: the future of the Andean water towers. Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK. 20 pp.

Publications

Lee, E., Ely, J.C., Bradley, S., Potter, E., Edwards, T., Davies, B.J., in review. Sensitivity of Andean Glaciers to ice-flow parameters in the Parallel Ice Sheet Model. The Cryosphere. egusphere-2025-6169. https://editor.copernicus.org/EGUsphere/ms_records/egusphere-2025-6169

Lee, E., King, O., Ely, J., Bravo, C., Drenkhan, F., Falaschi, D., García, J-L., Ruiz, L., Davies, B.J. 2025.  Glaciers of the Andes. In Comprehensive Cryospheric Science and Environmental Change. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-85242-5.00063-4

Davies, BJ., 2025. Accelerating glacier recession across the Andes. In: Drewry, DJ (ed), Glaciers and Ice Sheets in a warming world: impacts and outcomes. UK National Commission for UNESCO, London. https://unesco.org.uk/resources/glaciers-and-ice-sheets-in-a-warming-world-impacts-and-outcomes

Becker, R., Kropáček, J., Ross, A.C., Gribbin, T., Drenkhan, F., Sotelo, L.H., Mendoza, M.M., Davies, B., Ely, J., Buytaert, W., 2026. A map of high-altitude wetlands in the world’s major mountain regions. Scientific Data.

Davies, B.J., Gribbin, T., King, O., Matthews, T., Baiker, J., Buytaert, W., Carrivick, J., Drenkhan, F., Montaya, N., Perry, B., Ely, J., 2026. Palaeoglacier reconstruction and dynamics of Cordillera Vilcanota in the tropical high Peruvian Andes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 51, e70246.

King, O., Montoya, N., Davies, B.J., Matthews, T., Vargas, M., Ghuffar, S., Gribbin T., McNabb, R., Nicholson, L., Ely, J., 2025. The impact of supraglacial ice cliff and pond formation on debris-free, tropical glacier mass loss. Journal of Glaciology 71, e132. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2025.10109

Carrivick, J.L., Davies, M., Wilson, R., Davies, B.J., Gribbin, T., King, O., Rabatel, A., García, J.-L., Ely, J.C., 2024. Accelerating Glacier Area Loss Across the Andes Since the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters 51, e2024GL109154.

The GlaMBIE Team. Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z

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