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 
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Dr Ash Abrook

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Climate variability (long and short term)
  • Abrupt climate and environmental change
  • Palaeoecology
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Dr Ben Pears

Research Fellow
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Mr Cesar Murad Rodriguez

Research interests

  • Global Tipping Points 
  • Sustainability and Climate Change
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
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Professor David Sear

Professor
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Dr Doreen Yu-Tuan Huang PhD

Lecturer in sedimentary ancient DNA

Research interests

  • 1. Understanding of vegetation response in boreal and arctic regions in Holocene to environme…
  • 2. Impact of human activities on soil fauna diversity
  • 3. Carbon storage in mineral soils and soil carbon biochemistry 

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Mr Edward Forman BSc, MScR

Research interests

  • Earth System tipping points
  • Atmospheric/oceanic circulation shifts
  • Palaeoclimate reconstruction
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Professor Eli Lazarus

Professor

Research interests

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

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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
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Professor Jane Hart

Professor of Geography

Accepting applications from PhD students

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