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Landscape Dynamics and Ecology

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We use multi-proxy environmental data, and model past and present environments to further our understanding of environmental change.

Part of Geography and environmental science

About

Our research often involves the application of new methodological approaches that integrate high-resolution field and laboratory data acquisition with numerical and physical modelling.

Our main research priorities include:

  • geomorphic processes in aeolian, coastal, fluvial and shallow marine, glacial and periglacial environments
  • changes in environmental systems in response to climate change, in fluvial, glacial and coastal environments
  • the effects of extreme events on society, including catchment management, flooding, coastal changes and ecosystem responses
  • reconstructing climate change during the quaternary (Europe, the Americas, Arctic and South Pacific
  • understanding the process, timing and forcing of human migration into the tropical South Pacific
  • exploring what makes small islands vulnerable to multiple hazards

People, projects and publications

People

Dr Kate Parks

Principal Teaching Fellow
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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 3871

Dr Mark Peaple

Research Fellow in Palaeoclimate
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Miss Nina Herer

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Professor Paul Hughes BSc. Ph.D.

Professor of Palaeoecology
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Tel: +44 23 8059 2489

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Professor Pete Langdon

Associate Dean

Research interests

  • Climate-environment-human interactions
  • Freshwater ecosystem resilience and functioning
  • Tipping points in the environment

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 4086

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Professor Peter Shaw

Professor
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Tel: +44 23 8059 5867

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Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research

Research interests

  • River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
  • Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
  • River bank erosion processes

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 23 8059 7347

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Professor Tony Brown

Professor in Physical Geography
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Tel: +44 23 8059 5493

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Dr Zoë Thomas

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Earth System tipping points
  • Atmospheric circulation shifts
  • Quaternary environmental and climate change

Accepting applications from PhD students

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My research is centred on large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.
Professor Justin Sheffield
Head of School