Rate My Professor Harold Lovell

Dr Harold Lovell is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth in the Faculty of Science and Health, School of the Environment and Life Sciences. He is a glaciologist whose research and teaching interests include glaciers and glacial environments, climate and environmental change, and GIS and remote sensing. He joined the University of Portsmouth as a lecturer in GIS and Remote Sensing in February 2014 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in December 2015. His academic background includes a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London and UNIS completed between 2010 and 2014, an MSc by research from Durham University completed between 2009 and 2010, and a BSc in Geography from the University of Plymouth completed between 2005 and 2008.

Lovell’s research focuses on surging glaciers, glacier hazards in high mountain regions, and the timings and dynamics of former ice masses, often combining satellite data and fieldwork. He serves as the MSc Geographical Information Systems Course Leader and teaches topics including GIS, earth observation and remote sensing, environmental change, glaciers and glacial environments, glacier hazards, surveying and cartography, and academic study skills across undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A key recent publication is the 2026 article “Glacier surging and surge-related hazards in a changing climate” in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, co-authored with multiple international collaborators. He has delivered invited talks, including one on glacier surges for the International Glaciological Society Global Seminar Series.