Professor Pete Langdon

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.

Connect with Pete

Email: p.g.langdon@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

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Research

Research groups

Member of:

Research interests

Climate-environment-human interactions
Freshwater ecosystem resilience and functioning
Tipping points in the environment
South Pacific palaeoclimate and environmental history
Arctic climate change and biogeochemical cycling

Research projects

Active projects

Rethinking Palaeoclimatology for Society

Researchers:

Professor Pete Langdon

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Doctor Gordon Inglis

Predicting Rainfall over Millennial Scales (PROMS)

Researchers:

Professor David Sear

,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Doctor Gordon Inglis

Chasing the Rain?: Tracking the changing climate during the colonisation of Eastern Polynesia

Researchers:

Professor David Sear

,

Professor Pete Langdon

Sponsor: National Geographic Society

Completed projects

P Langdon Radiocarbon dating chironomid head capsules

Researchers:

Professor Pete Langdon

Pinpointing abrupt climate change in patagonia using tephrochronology and improved age modelling

Researchers:

Professor Pete Langdon

Testing Recent Lake Archives In Patagonia

Researchers:

Professor Pete Langdon

Sponsor: Royal Geographical Society

Langdon, York, ERC, After the Ice: Postglacial hunter-gatherer lifeways (POSTGLACIAL)

Researchers:

Professor Pete Langdon

Sponsor: European Union

Brown, AHRC, Celtic Connections & Crannogs: A new Study of Lake Settlements Across the Irish Sea

Researchers:

Professor Tony Brown

,

Professor Pete Langdon

Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council

Decolonising Victorian histories: Frank Oates, geographic exploration and teaching imperial history and environmental science

Researchers:

Doctor Christopher Prior

,

Professor Pete Langdon

Sponsor: Arts & Humanities Research Council

NERC Capital call

Researchers:

Professor Gavin Foster

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Professor Stephen Roberts ,

Professor J. Andy Milton ,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Professor Mark Moore ,

Professor Martin Palmer ,

Professor Damon Teagle ,

Professor Rachael James ,

Professor Tiina Roose ,

Professor Alistair Pike ,

Professor Juerg Matter ,

Professor Maeve Lohan ,

Doctor Matthew Loxham ,

Professor Andrew Cundy

Sear, NERC, Urgency Grant -The Legacy of Cyclone Pam

Researchers:

Professor David Sear

,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Professor Ian Croudace

*CLOSED* Darby, Mud, Monsoons and the Mekong

Researchers:

Professor Steve Darby

,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Doctor Julian Leyland

Sponsor: Gilchrist Educational Trust

Edwards, NERC, Lakes and the Arctic Carbon Cycle

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor Mary Edwards

,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Professor Jadu Dash

Safe Operating Spaces for Regional Rural Development

Researchers:

Emeritus Professor John Dearing

,

Professor Pete Langdon ,

Professor Felix Eigenbrod

External roles and responsibilities

Name: Expert Panel for Grant Awards for Deutsche Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR) (External organisation)

Role: Member

Year: 2018

Name: Natural Environment Research Council (External organisation)

Role: Member

Year: 2018

Name: Natural Environment Research Council (External organisation)

Role: Member

Year: 2019

Name: Natural Environment Research Council (External organisation)

Role: Member

Year: 2011 -

Name: Publications Secretary - Quaternary Research Association

Role: Other

Year: 2004 - 2009

Name: Vice President - International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Commission: Humans and Biosphere (HABCOM)

Role: Other

Year: 2015 - 2023

Name: National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF) (External organisation)

Role: Member

Year: 2022 - 2026

Name: Quaternary Research (Journal)

Role: Editor

Year: 2012 -

Name: Quaternary International (Journal)

Role: Editor

Year: 2014

Biography

Professor Peter Langdon has >20 years of working with lake sediments and ecosystems across the world. Over the last 15+ years he has increasingly focused on freshwater ecosystem responses and resilience to multidimensional drivers, and linking palaeolimnology with contemporary limnology. He has, with colleagues, developed a series of novel metrics based on system structures and networks by which to measure freshwater system resilience, over time, across spatially variable pollution and related drivers, and in the face of climate change. He uses a range of techniques to reconstruct environmental-human interactions, from microfossils, to stable isotopes, and molecular approaches (e.g. sedimentary DNA). He has published >100 papers in international journals and worked on a wide variety of grants from both national and international funding agencies.

Within the University of Southampton, he has made a number of significant contributions to the reputation and strategic aims of the University by successfully delivering a number of significant roles. These have included Director of Admissions (2006-2012), Director of Programmes (2013-2016), Impact Champion (2016-2017) and Head of School (2017-2021). Most recently he has Chaired the University fieldwork group, which has oversight on field activities across the institution.

Education

BSc (Geography and Geology) Leeds 1994

MSc (Climate Change) UEA 1996

PhD (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)

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Google Scholar research profile

Prizes

SUSU Excellence in Teaching Award: Faculty winner for Best Feedback and won the Highly Commended award across the University (2014)

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