Research group
Landscape Dynamics and Ecology
We use multi-proxy environmental data, and model past and present environments to further our understanding of environmental change.
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
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Mr Tommie Bloomfield
Environmental archaeology and palaeoecological reconstruction
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Professor Tony Brown
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Doctor Vicky Dominguez Almela
LecturerMy work includes the use of individual-based models (IBMs), geographical information sy
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Doctor Zoë Thomas
Associate ProfessorEarth System tipping points
Atmospheric circulation shifts
Accepting applications from PhD studentsEmail: Z.Thomas@soton.ac.uk
Research projects
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Chasing the Rain?: Tracking the changing climate during the colonisation of Eastern Polynesia
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Comp-Flood: Compound flooding in coastal Viet Nam
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RAMESES: The resilience and sustainability of the Mekong delta to changes in water and sediment fluxes
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BRAgS - Building Resilient Agricultural Systems: sustainable livelihoods in Mega-Deltas under environmental change
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Darby, Cardno, Phase II-Mississoppi River Basin
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Climatic and Autogenic Controls on the Morphodynamics of Mega-Rivers
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Floods and Droughts: Hydro-meteorological hazards in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
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Decolonising Victorian histories: Frank Oates, geographic exploration and teaching imperial history and environmental science
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Delivering Legacy from the Pevensey Bay Coastal Defence Scheme
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Drivers of Crust Patterns at Owens Lake, California
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Publications
Jim Wright, Simon Damkjaer, Heini Vaisanen, Quaranchie Adama-Tettey, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, A.G. Hill, L.G. Okotto, Joseph Okotto-Okotto & Peter Shaw,
2022, Environmental Research Letters, 17(12)
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Cyril Gadal, Pauline Delorme, Clement Narteau, Giles F.S. Wiggs, Matthew C. Baddock, Joanna Nield & Philippe Claudin,
2022, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 185(3), 309-332
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Magdalena Smigaj, Christopher Hackney, Phan Kieu Diem, Pham Dang Tri Van, Nguyen Thi Ngoc, Duong Bui, Stephen Darby & Julian Leyland,
2022, Science of the Total Environment
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2022, Basic and Applied Ecology, 64, 120-133
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Andrew Medeiros, Melissa Chipman, Donna Francis, Ladislav Hamerlik, Peter Langdon, Peter Puleo, Grace Schellinger, Regan Steigleder, Ian Walker, Sarah Woodroffe & Yarrow Axford,
2022, Quaternary Science Reviews, 294
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J.L. Best, Peter Ashmore & Stephen Darby,
2022, Nature Sustainability, 5(10), 811-813
Type: letterEditorial
Jennifer Ball, Jennifer Hauck, Robert Holland, Amy, Louise Lovegrove, Jake Snaddon, Gail Taylor & Kelvin S.-H. Peh,
2022, People and Nature, 4(5), 1352-1368
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10390
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Antony Brown, Thierry Fonville, Maarten R Van Hardenbroek van ammerstol, Graeme Cavers, Anne Crone, Finbar McCormick, Emily Murray, Helen Mackay, Nicki Whitehouse, Andrew Henderson, Phil Barratt, Kimberley Davies, Katie Head, Peter Langdon, Inger Alsos & Duncan Pirrie,
2022, Antiquity, 96(389), 1179-1199
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.70
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My research is centred on large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.