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Theme 1 Members
*Theme Leader: Robert McCulloch
| Name; Institution | Research Interests |
| Paul Adderley; Stirling | Palaeoarchaeology, Geoarchaeology, Ecosystem modelling (African Sahel & North Atlantic Region) |
| Mikael Attal; Edinburgh | Fluvial erosion processes; The role of fluvial incision in landscape development in active orogenic settings |
| Colin Ballantyne; St Andrews | Periglacial Geomorphology; Quaternary glaciation of British Isles; Postglacial & Paraglacial landscape evolution |
| Doug Benn; St Andrews | Debris covered glaciers; climate change; glacier lake outburst flood risk; glaciation of the Everest region, Snowball Earth hypothesis; Glacier modelling |
| Steve Binnie; Edinburgh | Macroscale geomorphology; process geomorphology; cosmogenic dating; applications of GIS in geomorphology |
| Michael Bird; St Andrews | Carbon cycle; Quaternary climate change records; archaeology, geochronology and palaeoecology |
| Paul Bishop; Glasgow | Cenozoic landscape evolution; Holocene environments and people in the tropics. |
| Geoffrey Boulton; Edinburgh | Sedimentation in polar and glacial terrestrial and marine environments; Quaternary palaeoenvironments; ice sheet modelling; rheological properties of sediments; remote sensing |
| Ben Brock; Dundee | glacier-climate relationships, glacier/snow modelling; Quaternary evolution of glaciated landscapes; hydrology; meteorology |
| Roderick Brown; Glasgow | Low-Temperature Thermochronology; Terrestrial Cosmogenic Nuclides; Geodynamics & Landscape Evolution; Remote Sensing; Digital Geoscience |
| Peter Clift; Aberdeen | Marine Geology and Tectonics of South and Eastern Asia; Solid Earth-Climate Interactions in Asia - Geology of the Asian Monsoon; Marine geology; Sedimentary geology; Climate change; Geochemistry; Subduction tectonics |
| Patience Cowie; Edinburgh | Fault/fracture initiation & development; theoretical modelling and field observations; interaction between surface processes and fault growth; response of river networks to tectonic uplift |
| Donald Davidson; Stirling | Soil micromorphology; legacy of contamination from manuring in the past; land evaluation techniques; computer mapping of soil properties; micromorphology; soil analysis for archaeology |
| Alastair Dawson; Aberdeen | Quaternary palaeoclimatology; Quaternary coastal change and sea level change; Tsunamis; coastal processes; flood risk |
| Tim Dempster; Glasgow | Zircon as an indicator of metamorphic processes; Apatite thermochronology; Grain boundaries and the movement of fluids through the crust; Orogenic evolution; links between surface processes and tectonics. |
| Kate Dobson; Glasgow | The application of low temperature thermochronology to constrain the underlying rates of surface processes and landscape evolution. |
| Andy Dugmore; Edinburgh | Tephrochronology; Quaternary environmental reconstruction; Human-environment interactions; Iceland and the North Atlantic islands |
| Tibor Dunai; Edinburgh | Noble gas geochemistry; low temperature geochronology, (U-Th)/He dating; exposure dating, cosmogenic nuclide methodology; Earth surface processes |
| Kevin Edwards; Aberdeen | Palynology; Mesolithic impacts on vegetation in Scotland; Environmental and anthropogenic change in the North Atlantic region; Early Holocene climate change; Tephrochronology; Environmental archaeology |
| Derek Fabel; Glasgow | Cosmogenic Nuclides; Quaternary dating, geomorphology and glaciology; Landscape evolution; Deglaciation of the East Antarctic; Measurement of erosion rates with cosmogenic isotopes |
| Stewart Freeman; SUERC | Cosmogenic isotope use in the life sciences; Accelerator microanalysis techniques; Nuclear medicine |
| Chris Gibbins; Aberdeen | Impact of river regulation on stream ecology; Habitat use by salmonid fish; Invertebrate drift; Factors controlling the structure of stream ecological communities |
| Adrian Hartley; Aberdeen | Basin Analysis; Clastic sedimentology; Sequence stratigraphy and geochemistry. |
| Kate Heal; Edinburgh | Biogeochemical cycling; treatment of mine drainage in wetlands; sustainable urban drainage; hydrochemical processes in upland catchments. |
| Trevor Hoey; Glasgow | Sediment transport processes in gravel-bed rivers; The dynamics of braided rivers; Numerical modelling of sediment transport and landscape evolution; The geomorphological basis of river management. |
| Nick Hulton; Edinburgh | Glacial modelling; glaciology; climate change; high performance computing; Geographical Information Science. |
| John Jansen; Glasgow | How bedrock rivers drive the evolution of landscapes; Anabranching rivers; their origins, hydraulics & sediment transport |
| Martin Kirkbride ;Dundee | Debris-covered glaciers in Europe and New Zealand; Glacial history of the Cairngorm Mountains; Glacial- geomorphological applications of tephrochronology; Holocene glaciers and climate in Iceland |
| Linda Kirstein; Edinburgh | The interaction of climate and tectonics on landscape evolution. |
| David Macdonald; Aberdeen | Petroleum geology; structural geology and sedimentology |
| Doug Mair; Aberdeen | Influence of glacier hydrology on glacier motion; 3-D patterns of stress and velocity in glaciers; Changes in the mass-balance, geometry and dynamics of Arctic ice-caps |
| Dmitri Mauquoy; Aberdeen | Long-term climate and environmental change; Geochronologies; Palaeoecology; Holocene climate change; Pollen/non-pollen microfossil, plant macrofossil and testate amoebae analyses |
| Tim Mighall; Aberdeen | Palynology; Holocene environmental and climate change; Environmental archaeology; Pollution and vegetation change associated with early mining and metalworking; Peat bogs as archives of environmental change |
| Robert McCulloch; Stirling | Palaeoecology; Late Quaternary environmental reconstructions, Late-glacial / Holocene ice sheet fluctuations and vegetation responses to climate change, human –environment interactions, environmental archaeology. Southern South America, Scotland and the North Atlantic. |
| Simon Mudd; Edinburgh | Arid region hydrology; hillslope geomorphology; sediment transport processes; chemical weathering; soil development, landsliding, landscape-tectonic-climate interactions; interactions between plants and geomorphology |
| Pete Nienow; Edinburgh | Glacial processes: glacier hydrology, ice dynamics and their links under a variety of climate change forcing scenarios. |
| Paul Palmer; Edinburgh | Modelling atmospheric chemistry, measuring and modelling biogenic voc fluxes, inverse modelling, and satellite remote sensing |
| Cristina Persano; Glasgow | Constraining relief development using low temperature thermochronometers (apatite fission track and (U-Th)/He systems), and numerical modelling, to explore different ‘scenarios’ of landscape evolution. |
| Brice Rea; Aberdeen | Glacial and periglacial geomorphology/geology; Centrifuge modelling; Glacier-climate interactions; Glaciology; landscape evolution; High-latitude -altitude weathering processes and rates; Physical and geotechnical properties of deep-ocean sediments; Applications of borehole logging |
| Vincent Rinterknecht; St Andrews | Quaternary Geochronology; Glacial Geomorphology; Paleoclimatology |
| Ruth Robinson; St Andrews | Earth surface processes: geochronology & modelling of alluvial systems; OSL of fluvial, coastal and tsunami deposits; Landscape evolution and archaeology; sediment erosion, transport and deposition |
| John Rowan; Dundee | Sediment transport; Hydromorphology; European Water Framework Directive (WFD); Application of environmental radionuclides; Geomorphology of sediment sinks; environmental reconstruction, resource management and environmental impact assessment and the hydromorphology of rivers and lakes. |
| David Sanderson; SUERC | Airborne and vehicular gamma ray surveys; Environmental radioactivity; Luminescence dating: Thermoluminescence and Photostimulated luminescence; Detection of irradiated food; Archaeological sciences. |
| Andrew Sheperd; Edinburgh | Satellite remote sensing of the cryosphere for investigations of global climate change, in particular the quantitative techniques of radar interferometry and radar altimetry |
| Ian Simpson; Stirling | Soils, sediments and landscape history: Micromorphology; land resource utilisation and organisation by early societies; North Atlantic region; |
| Hugh Sinclair; Edinburgh | Erosional & sedimentation in mountain belts; Low temperature thermochronology; the Alps, Pyrenees and NW Himalaya; Sedimentation in deep-water systems where complex topography influences turbidity currents. |
| Michael Singer; St Andrews | fluvial geomorphology: lowland valley sediment budgets, floodplain sedimentation/erosion, links between hydrology and sediment transport, stochastic hydrology, downstream fining, channel and floodplain morphology, and sedimentary and contaminant legacy of hydraulic mining and industry along large rivers |
| Chris Soulsby; Aberdeen | Runoff processes, streamflow generation and catchment biogeochemistry; Groundwater - Surface water interactions; Hydroecology of rivers & wetlands |
| Finn Stuart; SUERC | Cosmogenic isotopes; (U-Th)/He chronometry of apatite; Landscape erosion and exposure history; Combining the noble gas isotope composition of mantle-derived rocks with trace elements and radiogenic isotopes. |
| David Sugden; Edinburgh | Glacial and polar geomorphology; the polar regions. Antarctic ice sheet stability. Climate and the dynamics of the Patagonian ice cap |
| Michael Summerfield; Edinburgh | Macrogeomorphology and long-term landform development; geomorphological applications of cosmogenic isotope analysis |
| Doerthe Tetzlaff; Aberdeen | Catchment dynamics and behaviour: runoff processes and streamflow generation; Riverine ecosystems– ecologically meaningful hydrological/hydraulic assessment |
| Andrew Tyler; Stirling | Development of quantitative remote monitoring techniques in environmental radioactivity and radioecology in terrestrial and aquatic environments; Soil erosion; Sediment/peat dating; Eutrophication; Plant stress. |
| Sheng Xu; SUERC | Establishment of the new SUERC AMS Laboratory |
| Iain Young; Abertay | Biophysics of soil ecosystems; Architecture and function of biomaterials; X-ray tomography; Sensory Ecology of organisms; Global change and land use management; Biophysics of Sports Turf |