The posts below link to research pages that contain further details concerning the work that I am undertaking. Please take a look and contact me if you want any further details or are interested in collaborating on research.
A new Google map detailing my research study sites has been produced using Google's simple map making functionality. The map has clickable site markers that reveal brief details of the research and links to relevant project pages.
My research seeks to constrain past climate and sea-level histories through the application of modified Landscape Evolution Models (LEMs). By simulating many hundreds or thousands of multiple working hypotheses of change, plausible histories can be defined. I am developing the technique further using a 'sink to source' methodology, whereby the contemporary stratigraphy of a depositional feature such as a delta is simulated through coupled LEM and delta strat models to define plausible sequences of formative conditons.
This research, in collaboration with colleagues at the university of Florence, aims to explore the spatial and temporal evolution of roughness on a deeply incised eroding river bank of the Cecina River in Italy. Roughness is partitioned into form darg and skin friction components and by using times series of high resolution survey data collected with a Terrestrial Laser Scanner, the evolution of the two components can be analysed.
GIS analysis of a suite of bank position data, including aerial photos, digital atlas, remotely sensed imagery and GPS data has revealed the rates of planform shift of the Mekong River. This research is used to support validation of a novel model of bank erosion developed in Darby et al. 2010.