Professor Peter Langdon BSc, MSc, PhD, FRGS
Head of Geography and Environmental Science, Professor of Quaternary Science

Pete Langdon is currently the Head of School of Geography and Environmental Science at Southampton. He studied for his PhD at Southampton from 1996-1999, and after a 6 year stint lecturing at the University of Exeter, returned to Southampton in 2006, and has been there since.
Pete has broad research interests around Quaternary research, but specialises in reconstructing past environmental change from lake and peat sediments. He has worked on sediment sequences from every continent bar Antarctica, and tackled major research projects working on reconstructing past climate change, lake pollution and health, human-climate inter-relationships, and advanced the understanding of ecosystem tipping points.
He has served as the Publications Secretary and then Honorary Secretary of the Quaternary Research Association from 2005-2014. He is currently a member of the NERC Peer review college, Associate Editor for Quaternary Research, and INQUA HABCOM commission Vice-President.
Qualifications
- B.Sc.(Geography and Geology) Leeds 1994
- M.Sc.(Climate Change) UEA 1996
- Ph.D.(Reconstructing Holocene climate change in Scotland utilising peat stratigraphy and tephrochronology) Southampton 1999
Employment
- 2006-date University of Southampton
- 2000-2006 University of Exeter
- 1999-2000 University of Southampton (PDRA)
Links to external websites
- Web of Science research profile
- Google Scholar research profile
- Quaternary Research journal
- INQUA HABCOM
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