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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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People

Dr Nathaniel Baurley

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • I am interested in using novel remote sensing techniques to investigate how glaciers in Iceland, and elsewhere, are changing, and what this may mean for their future response and evolution. To do so, I am utilising a combination of satellite imagery and novel UAV surveying techniques to investigate several important glaciological processes across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
  • My previous work utilised similar novel UAV surveying technqiues to investigate the changing dynamics of Fjallsjökull, a large calving glacier in southeast Iceland, at high spatial and temporal resolutions. 

Email: n.baurley@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Paul Hughes BSc. Ph.D.

Professor of Palaeoecology

Email: paul.hughes@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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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

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

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Mr Peter Morgan BSc, MSc, RSci, FHEA

Technical Manager

Research interests

  • Quaternary Science
  • Geoarchaeology
  • Geomorphology

Email: p.r.morgan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Peter Shaw

Associate Professor

Email: p.j.shaw@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Sam Hudson

Research Fellow

Professor Steve Darby

Associate Dean Research

Research interests

  • River and coastal flooding - relationships between geomorphology and flooding in rivers and deltas
  • Biogeomorphology - interactions between river processes and life
  • River bank erosion processes

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.e.darby@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Professor Tony Brown

Professor in Physical Geography

Email: tony.brown@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Dr Zoë Thomas

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Earth System tipping points
  • Atmospheric circulation shifts
  • Quaternary environmental and climate change

Accepting applications from PhD students

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