The Surface Processes focus of the Earth Systems Research Group encompasses the interaction of surface (geomorphological) processes and environments, and near-surface (tectonic and geodynamic) processes, in both active and quiescent orogenic settings.
We investigate bedrock and sedimentary systems in coastal, glacial and fluvial systems, with two broad and overlapping emphases:
(1) the interaction of tectonic and geomorphological processes (including rock weathering, erosion & sediment transport), and morphodynamics;
and
(2) the nature and timing of Earth Surface environmental change and the Earth's surface responses to such change (including anthropogenic change and land management)
Examples of current research topics
The South Platte river
Climate change and building stone decay
Sediment transport by the Orange River
Escarpment evolution
Theme members
Based in the Department of Geographical & Earth Sciences (GES):
Paul Bishop,
Brian Bluck,
Rod Brown,
Kate Dobson,
Jane Drummond,
Derek Fabel,
David Forrest,
Jim Hansom,
Rebecca Hodge,
Trevor Hoey,
Martin Lee,
Zhenhong Li,
Esperanza Muñoz-Salinas,
Cristina Persano,
Rhian Thomas,
Susan Waldron.
Based at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center (SUERC):
Rob Ellam
Current postgraduate students
Syed Ali Aqdus,
Miguel Castillo,
Laura Duthie,
Gareth Evans,
Réka-Hajnalka Fülöp,
Delia Gheorghiu,
Peng Liu,
Hannah Mathers,
Solomon Olabode,
Natapong Phattanajongrak,
Nicola Russell,
Yangmao Wen,
Katie Whitbread.
Facilities and resources
Imaging, Spectroscopy and Analysis Center (ISACC)
Low Temperature Thermochronology Laboratory
Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory
SUERC AMS laboratory
2011 PhD projects
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