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Tony Payne was appointed Professor of Glaciology in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol in August 2005 and is a co-director of CPOM.

Tony has a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from University of Stirling and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Edinburgh. His PhD was on the modelling of former ice sheets. Prior to joining CPOM, Tony was a Reader at the Department of Geography, University of Southampton. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences, University Bremen (Modelling of the late-Quaternary oceans) and the Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh (Modelling the former Scandinavian Ice Sheet).

Tony's work centres on the development and application of numerical models of glacier and ice sheet flow. He is particularly interested in the evolution and dynamics of ice streams, and their effect on the stability of ice sheets.

Current research interests are:

Numerical modelling of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets.
Implementation of ice-flow models on parallel-processing computers.
Development of higher-order ice-flow models.
Integration of remote sensing data with numerical models of ice-mass flow using control methods.
Modelling of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica.