Frances Butcher

Frances Butcher is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield in the UK. She completed her PhD, entitled ‘Wet-Based Glaciation on Mars’, at the Open University in 2019. She is a geomorphologist whose research focues on glaciation and other ice-related processes on Mars and Earth. Her particular interest is in the landforms left behind by glaciers and ice sheets, and their implications for past environmental change on both planets. Her research involves the use of remote sensing data for mapping and quantitative 3D terrain analyses, as well as interplanetary comparisons. These techniques inform empirical and numerical modelling reconstructions of glacial processes and past environmental change. To date, she has authored/co-authored 17 peer-reviewed publications. She is currently the chair of the International Association of Geomorphologists Planetary Geomorphology Working Group.