Research: Landscape Dynamics
Current Projects
- Ivy on Walls Phase 2
Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from English Heritage; 2012-2015. - Examining the bioprotection value of plants and species on rocks and man made intertidal structures and to make pratical recommendations for their use
Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust; 2011-2013. - Macronutrients Cycles Programme
Professor Paul Whitehead and Dr Jill Crossman. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2015. - DO4 Models: Dust observation
Professor David Thomas, Professor Richard Washington and Dr Giles Wiggs in collaboration with University of Sheffield and Imperial College London. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2014. - Fennec - The Saharan climate system
Professor Richard Washington; in collaboration with the University of Leeds, UCL, Imperial College London and the University of Reading. Financial support from NERC; 2010-2013. - Floods and droughts: environmental dynamics in the upper Zambezi Valley
Professor David S.G. Thomas and Dr Sallie Burrough in collaboration with the Dept of Zoology, Oxford. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2010-2013. - The challenge of human-hazard interaction: documentation, social exposure and system resilience in the Gobi desert, Asia
Dr Troy Sternberg. Financial support from the British Academy and the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2013. - Rainfall in the desert sand: groundwater recharge rates and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in the southern Kalahari
Dr Abi Stone. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2012. - Stressed deserts: identifying tipping points in vegetation and wind erosion in response to increasing environmental pressure
Dr Giles Wiggs. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2010-2011. - Climate change, 'greening' of masonry and implications for the decay of built heritage and new build
Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Queen's University Belfast. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2009-2012. - Determining the rate of active faulting in Iran using a novel OSL approach
Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2008-2011. - Climate change, moisture regimes and decay of stone monoliths in southern England
Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2011. - Ivy on walls - biodeterioration or bioprotection?
Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2006-2011. - Damp towers: Understanding and controlling the ingress of driven rain through exposed walls
Professor Heather Viles, Dr Mona Edwards and Dr Troy Sternberg in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2004-2012. - Soft wall capping as a conservation method for ruined monuments
Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with English Heritage. Financial support from English Heritage; 2004-2011.
Recent Projects
- Palaeolithic mega-lakes and early human occupation of the Kalahari, southern Africa
Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Royal Geographical Society; 2008-2009. - Chronology of glacial deposits from the UK
Dr Richard Bailey in collaboration with Royal Holloway, University of London and University of Gloucestershire. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2007-2009. - Tyndall Phase 2: Research Programme 4: Climate change and development
Professor David S.G. Thomas and Professor Richard Washington; in collaboration with the University of East Anglia and University of Reading. Financial support from Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research; 2006-2009. - Fossilised hebivore middens
Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust; 2006-2008. - Consensus of collision? A site-specific approach and the integrating methodologies for the historic environment
Professor Heather Viles. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2006-2007. - Rapid, catastrophic decay of building limestones
Professor Heather Viles in collaboration with Queen's University Belfast and City University, London. Financial support from the EPSRC; 2005-2009. - African palaeoclimate: the dating of palaeo-shoreline deposits and other geomorphic features, in Southern Africa, associated with past changes in surface hydrology
Dr Richard Bailey and Professor David S.G. Thomas. Financial support from NERC; 2005-2008. - BodEx 2005 - A multidisciplinary study of the 'dustiest place on earth'
Professor Richard Washington and Dr Sebastian Engelsteadter, in collaboration with UCL, Birkbeck College London, Salford University and Direction des Ressources en Eau et de la Météorologie, N'Djamena. Financial support from the Gilchrist Educational Trust and the Royal Geographical Society; 2005-2006. - Dryland change: past, present, future (IGCP500)
Professor David Thomas and Dr Matt Telfer. Financial support from UNESCO; 2004-2008. - Climate change in the developing world: across the southern African climate gradient
Professor David Thomas. Financial support from the University of East Anglia; 2004-2006. - Chronology, Adaptation and Environment of the Middle Palaeolithic in northern Africa
Professor David Thomas in collaboration with the University of Aberystwyth and the Libyan Palaeolake Project. Financial support from the NERC; 2002-2007. - Land degradation in the Karoo, South Africa
Professor John Boardman in collaboration with the Universities of Cape Town, Leicester, Coventry, Aberdeen and Rhodes University. Financial support from NERC, the Trapnell Fund and the Oppenheimer Fund.