Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Research Projects

We have current and former research projects in ten countries, across four continents (Figure 1). To achieve this we have forged very strong international collaborations with developed and developing countries and put together and lead multinational, interdisciplinary research teams. Thus, our research is now strongly interdisciplinary and involves partnerships between fellows, graduate and undergraduate students of geology, archaeology and geophysics, marine science, fluvial hydrology and atmospheric science. Our research portfolio also extends beyond the collection and interpretation of sea-level data to include topics as diverse as: the socio-economic impact of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, focusing on livelihood impacts and patterns of local and institutional response by different groups and populations; the application of diatoms in forensic science; and twentieth century inter-decadal variability in temperature and precipitation, which provides a resource for studying long-term regional climate variability and climate model evaluations.

Quantifying Holocene sea level change using intertidal foraminifera: Lessons from the British Isles.

Quaternary sea-level changes along the Atlantic Coast of the United States: Implications for glacial isostatic adjustment models and current rates of sea-level change

Holocene sea-level change in Southeast Asia and Australasia

Examining the evidence for a recent acceleration in the rate of sea-level rise using combined instrumental and proxy data from the Atlantic coast of North American and Northwestern Europe

Constraining past mega-thrust earthquake-induced vertical land movement in the Pacific Northwest

Indian Ocean Tsunamis - Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts on the Malay-Thai Peninsula.

A Paleoseismic record of repeated great earthquakes on the Sunda subduction megathrust, Northern Sumatra

Human responses to Holocene sea level change in the Persian Gulf