Staff Profile

Dr Laura Turnbull

Contact Dr Laura Turnbull (email at laura.turnbull@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

• 2012 - present: Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Hazards, Risk and Resilience, Department of Geography, Durham University
• 2012 - present: Affiliated Researcher, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA
• 2009 - 2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA
• 2008 - 2009: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
• 2005 - 2008: PhD "Ecohydrological interactions across a semi-arid grassland to shrubland transition", Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
• 2003 - 2004: MSc, Department of Geography, King's College London
• 2000 - 2003: BSc, Department of Geography, Durham University

Publications

Articles: magazine

• Turnbull, L. Phosphorus and food security: Framing a global sustainability challenge through art. The Sustainability Review. 2011;2.

Journal papers: academic

• Brazier, R.E., Turnbull, L. & Wainwright, J. Carbon loss by water erosion in drylands: implications from a study of vegetation change in the southwest USA. Hydrological Processes. 2013.
• Turnbull, L., Parsons, A.J., Wainwright, J. & Anderson, J.P. Runoff responses to long-term rainfall variability in a shrub-dominated catchment. Journal of Arid Environments. 2013;91:88-94.
• Cleland, E.E, Collins, S.L, Dickson, T.L, Farrer, E.C, Gross, K.L, Gherardi, L.A, Hallett, L, Hobbs, R, Hsu, J, Turnbull, L & Suding, K Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial versus temporal variation in precipitation. Ecology. 2013;130327124438002.
• Wilcox B.P., Turnbull, L., Young, M.H., Williams, J., Ravi, S., Seyfried, M.S., Bowling, D.R., Scott, R.S., Germino, M. Caldwell, T. & Wainwright, J. Invasion of shrublands by exotic grasses: ecohydrological consequences in cold versus warm deserts. Ecohydrology. 2012;5:160-173.
• Turnbull, L., Wilcox, B.P., Belnap, J., Ravi, S., D’Odorico, P., Childers, D.L., Gwenzi, W., Okin, G.S., Wainwright, J., Caylor, K.K. & Sankey, T. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands. Ecohydrology. 2012;5:174-183.
• Wainwright, J., Turnbull, L., Ibrahim, T.G., Lexartza-Artza, I., Thomton, S.F. & Brazier, R.E. Linking Environmental Régimes, Space and Time: Interpretations of Structural and Functional Connectivity. Geomorphology. 2011;126:387-404.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. & Brazier, R.E. Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics during runoff events over a transition from grassland to shrubland in the south-western United States. Hydrological Processes. 2011;25:1-17.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J., Brazier, R.E. & Bol, R. Biotic and Abiotic Changes in Ecosystem Structure over a Shrub-Encroachment Gradient in the Southwestern USA. Ecosystems. 2010;13:1239-1255.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. & Brazier, R.E. Changes in hydrology and erosion over a transition from grassland to shrubland. Hydrological Processes. 2010;24:393-414.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. & Brazier, R.E. Hydrology, erosion and nutrient transfers over a transition from semi-arid grassland to shrubland in the South-Western USA: A modelling assessment. Journal of Hydrology. 2010;388:258-272.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. & Brazier, R.E. A conceptual framework for understanding semi-arid land degradation: ecohydrological interactions across multiple-space and time scales. Ecohydrology. 2008;1:23-34.
• Turnbull, L., Brazier, R.E., Wainwright, J., Dixon, L. & Bol, R. Use of carbon isotope analysis to understand semi-arid erosion dynamics and long-term semi-arid land degradation. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2008;22:1697-1702.

Books: edited

• Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.

Books: sections

• Turnbull, L., Hochstrasser, T., Wieczorek, M., Baas, A., Wainwright, J., Scarsoglio, S., Tietjen, B, Jeltsch, F & Mueller, E.N Approaches to modelling ecogeomorphic systems. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.
• Caylor, K.K., Okin, G.S., Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J., Wiegand, T., Franz, T.E. & Parsons, A.J Integrating short-and long-range processes intomodels: the emergence of pattern. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.
• Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Land degradation in drylands: an ecogeomorphological approach. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.
• Cerda, A., Gallart, R., Li, J., Papanastasis, V.P., Parmenter, R.R., Turnbull, L., Parsons, A.J & Wainwright, J Long-range ecogeomorphic processes. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.
• Jeltsch, F., Lefever, R., Turnbull, L., Scarsoglio, S., Alados, C.L., Rallart, F., Mueller, E.N, Millington, J, Wainwright, J, Wierzoerek, M & Grimm, V Resilience, self-organization, complexity and pattern formation. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.
• Turnbull, L., Wainwright, J. & Ravi, S. Vegetation change in the southwestern USA: patterns and processes. In: Mueller, E.N., Wainwright, J., Parsons, A.J. & Turnbull, L. Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands: Understanding Self-Organised Ecogeomorphic Systems. Springer; 2013.

Grants Awarded

• 2013: IHRR Small Research Grant, £1500
• 2012: British Society for Geomorphology Early Career Grant, "Ecogeomorphic responses of drylands to climatic drivers and anthropogenic disturbances", £1400
• 2012: IHRR Small Research Grant, £1500
• 2011: 104b Small Research Grant, WRRC, USGS, $30000
• 2008: British Council RXP Exchange Award, "Development of a spatially explicity modelling approach to investigate land degradation and its impact on biogeochemical cycling", £4800
• 2008: NERC Radiocarbon Facility, "Understanding the origin and age of translocated sediments in a semi-arid grass-shrubland ecotone in New Mexico, USA", £4680
• 2007: EGU Conference Support Award for paper of special scientific interest, £500
• 2006: Sevilleta LTER Postgraduate Research Award, $3500