Hazards and Surface Change

The principal aim of the Hazards and Surface Change cluster is to advance holistic approaches to understanding hazards as the outcome of recurrent or chronic physical processes that occur within specific societal settings, rather than as one-off events. In particular, we are focused on three interrelated challenges:

Understanding the physical mechanisms of mass movements, coupling novel laboratory and field-based approaches with numerical modelling, to allow assessment of slope stability at societally-relevant scales.
Quantitative estimation of the long-term and large-scale effects of mass movements on the sediment and terrestrial carbon cycles, including systematic assessment of how debris flows and earthquake-triggered landslides mobilise and transport sediment and organic carbon in montane environments.
Investigation of how scientific understanding of hazards - particularly around earthquakes, mass movements, and sea-level change - is used in decision-making and management processes - in particular, how ‘expert’ and local knowledge of hazards and surface change can coexist and inform both policy and practice.

For more details, please contact: Professor John Wainwright

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Cluster Members

Staff Name	Research Interest
Mike Bentley	Antarctic environmental history, sea-level change, glacial geomorphology
Matt Brain	Engineering geomorphology, sediment compaction, coastal geomorphology, landslide mechanics
Isabela Bovolo	Tropical hydro-climatology, Hydrology, Climate and Climate Change
Dave Bridgland	Fluvial history, Quaternary, Palaeontology/Archaeology
Fiona Clubb	Tectonic and fluvial geomorphology, Topographic analysis, Landscape evolution
Nick Cox	Statistical applications in Geography (e.g. geomorphology, hydrology, climatology)
Alex Densmore	Mountain building, Earthquakes, Landsliding, Hazard-risk-resilience
Danny Donoghue	Airborne and satellite remote sensing, Remote sensing for archaeology, forestry and coastal change
Simon Engelhart	Sea-level change, Earthquake induced Tsunami/Storm Surge/Vertical Land Motion, Holocene
Rich Hardy	Open channel hydraulics, Sediment transport, Numerical modelling
Rebecca Hodge	Fluvial geomorphology, Sediment transport, Numerical modelling
Luke Jackson	Sea-level change, Coastal Impacts, Climate Change
Stewart Jamieson	Glacial geomorphology, Ice stream dynamics, Landscape evolution
Erin McClymont	Past Environmental and Climate Change, Organic Geochemistry
Glenn McGregor	Synoptic climatology, Biometeorology, Hydroclimatology, Climate and society
Nick Rosser	Rockfalls/landslides, Deformation, Risk
Chris Stokes	Glaciers, Climate Change, Ice stream dynamics, Antarctica
Pete Talling	Submarine Geohazards, Ocean dynamics
Laura Turnbull-Lloyd	Ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology, land degradation, drylands, connectivity
John Wainwright	Human-Environment Interactions, Hydrology, Geomorphology
Jeff Warburton	Fluvial geomorphology, Mountain sediment systems, Geocryology

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