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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

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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

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Doctor Alistair Monteath

Teaching Fellow in Physical Geography

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Doctor Ash Abrook

Research Fellow

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Doctor Ben Pears

Research Fellow

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Email: b.r.pears@soton.ac.uk

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

Mr Christopher Tomsett

Senior Research Assistant

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Professor David Sear

Professor

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Email: d.sear@soton.ac.uk

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

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Doctor Dhritiraj Sengupta

Research Fellow

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Email: d.sengupta@soton.ac.uk

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

Doctor Eli Lazarus

Associate Professor

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Email: e.d.lazarus@soton.ac.uk

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

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Doctor Hal Voepel PhD, MS, BSE, BS

Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Email: h.e.voepel@soton.ac.uk

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

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Doctor Jake Snaddon BSc, PhD Cantab, FHEA

Lecturer

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Email: j.l.snaddon@soton.ac.uk

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

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Professor Jane Hart

Professor of Geography

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Email: j.k.hart@soton.ac.uk

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

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