The University of Sheffield
Department of Geography

Professor Andy Hodson

Andy Hodson Room number: E20
Telephone (internal): 27950
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 7950
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 7950
Email: A.J.Hodson@Sheffield.ac.uk

Andy Hodson received his BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Southampton, and followed with a PhD Climate, Hydrology and Sediment Transfer Process Interactions in a Sub-polar Glacier Basin from the Department of Geography, University of Southampton in 1994. In 1995 he was appointed as a Departmental Lecturer in the School of Geography, University of Oxford, and the next year moved to Sheffield as a Lecturer in Geography; he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2002, Reader in 2007 and awarded a Chair in January 2011.

Andy is Network Coordinator for the EU NSINK Programme


The Ecology of Snow and Ice EnvironmentsNEW! First edition of The Ecology of Snow and Ice Environments by Johanna Laybourn-Parry, Martyn Tranter and Andy Hodson


Research Interests

Biogeochemistry of cold regions, glacier ecology, meltwater geochemistry, glacier hydrology, hydrometeorology of snow and ice

Andy with a Chinstrap penguin

Current Research

Meltwater geochemistry

More information on meltwater geochemistry

Biogeochemistry of glacial environments

More information on biogeochemistry of glacial environments

Glacier Ecology

More information on glacier ecology

Glacier Hydrology and hydrometeorology

More information on glacier hydrology and hydrometeorology

Teaching

I teach those skills that allow students to do more than simply write nice essays about environmental science problems. I therefore teach good practice from laboratory and field perspectives, from Level 1 in the first year, to MSc level in the fourth year. In this way I help students plan, execute and report experiments in hydrology, environmental chemistry and glaciology.

All of my teaching involves field work, some of which is conducted in local upland catchments in the Peak District, whilst other work takes place upon remote glaciers in the European High Arctic.

Andy teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:

GEO150 Practical Methods for Physical Geography
GEO154 Environmental Science Level 1 Field Class

GEO6603 Environmental Process Fluxes
GEO6604 Geochemical Techniques in Environmental Analysis
GEO6613 Arctic/Alpine Field Course

All staff also engage in personal supervision and tutoring of individual students at all three undergraduate levels in the following modules:
GEO163 (Information & Communication Skills for Geographers)
GEO263 or GEO264 (Research Design in Human or Physical Geography)
GEO356 (Geographical Research Project)

Key publications

Other Information

Andy likes participating in the International Glaciological Society's UK and Nordic branch meetings and spending as much time as possible in Svalbard. Here he has an adjunct position in the Arctic Geology department at UNIS, where he runs an MSc module entitled "Arctic Glaciers and Landscape".