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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

Ms Amelia Andrews

Research interests

  • Glacial hydrology 
  • Subglacial hydrology
  • Glacial lakes 
Connect with Amelia

Email: Amelia.Andrews@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Ash Abrook

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Climate variability (long and short term)
  • Abrupt climate and environmental change
  • Palaeoecology
Connect with Ash

Email: A.Abrook@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Ben Pears

Research Fellow
Connect with Ben

Email: B.R.Pears@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +000

Professor David Sear

Professor
Connect with David

Email: D.Sear@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4614

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Dr Doreen Yu-Tuan Huang PhD

Lecturer in sedimentary ancient DNA

Research interests

  • Vegetation changes in boreal and arctic regions in Holocene
  • Impact of human activities on soil fauna diversity
  • Carbon storage in mineral soils

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Doreen Yu-Tuan

Email: Y-T.Huang@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eli Lazarus

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • coastal and fluvial dynamics
  • geomorphology
  • human-environmental coupled systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Eli

Email: E.D.Lazarus@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3260

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Dr Hal Voepel PhD, MS, BSE, BS

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Hydrological and sediment processes in watersheds and rivers
  • Contaminant transport throughout hydrologic systems
  • Water and sediment impact on human development
Connect with Hal

Email: H.E.Voepel@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 7432193404

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Professor Jane Hart

Professor of Geography

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jane

Email: J.K.Hart@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4615

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Professor Jo Nield

Professor

Research interests

  • Dune Processes
  • Salt pan dynamics
  • Dust emissive surfaces

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jo

Email: J.Nield@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 4749

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Professor Julian Leyland

Professor

Research interests

  • Fluvial and Intertidal Geomorphology
  • Remote Environmental Sensing
  • UAVs, USVs and Autonomy in Geoscience

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Julian

Email: J.Leyland@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2285

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