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
Pauline Delorme, Joanna Nield, Giles F. S. Wiggs, Matthew C. Baddock, Nathaniel R. Bristow, J.L. Best, Kenneth T. Christensen & Philippe Claudin,
2023, Geophysical Research Letters, 50(4)
DOI: 10.1029/2022GL101553
Type: article
Nichola Ann Strandberg, David Sear, Peter Langdon, Shane Cronin, Catherine Langdon, Ashley Maloney, Samantha Bateman, Thomas Bishop, I.W. Croudace, Melanie J. Leng, Julian P. Sachs, Matiu Prebble, William D. Gosling, Mary Edwards & Sandra Nogué,
2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11
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Hannah Barker, Peter Shaw, Beth Richards, Zoe Clegg & Dianna Smith,
2023, Sustainability, 15(3)
DOI: 10.3390/su15032051
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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
My research is centred on large-scale hydrology and its interactions with climate variability and change.