Research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in field of physical geography, river science and environmental science and management.
Catchment and River Science (CARIS) research group at Plymouth.
Academic Lead on Taught Postgraduate Programmes for the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science (formerly academic lead for Employability)

International Society of River Science (President)
British Society for Geomorphology
British Hydrological Society

Current

Recently awarded PhDs (post 2010)

Victoria Milner (2011) Assessing the geomorphic and ecological validity of geomorphic river typing

Antoine Kerusore (2012) Aquatic vegetation processes in a floodplain-river system and the influence of lateral dynamics and connectivity

Melanie van Niekirk (2013) Carbon dynamics under changing land use from upland forestry to windfarm.

Ed Nelson (2014) - Hydropower development since 1942 in Scotland – a historical and environmental analysis. 

Alan Law (2014) - Effects of beaver reintroduction on rivers and lochs in Scotland 

Fiona Thompson (2017) - Changing flood frequency in Scotland: implications for channel geomorphology, ecology and management.

Overview
I use my expertise and enthusiasm to teach the subjects and embedding generic employability skills into these subject:

• Fluvial geomorphology and hydrology (particularly channel dynamics and suspended sediment transport)
• 21st century river conservation and management
• Remote sensing of rivers
• River rehabilitation (channel design, environmental monitoring and ecosystem service assessment and mapping)
• Ecosystem services
• Wetland hydrology (including impacts of groundwater abstraction and dissolved organic carbon)

2. To use a range of innovative teaching methods including lectures, student presentations, computer packages, individual and group practical exercises and fieldwork.

3. To provide students with advanced technical skills to investigate hydrological, geomorphological and environmental management related problems to enhance their employability.

4. To incorporate my pure and applied research into my undergraduate and postgraduate teaching to provide real world case studies. This includes introducing students to new technologies (e.g. remote sensing for investigating hydrology and geomorphology).

5. To provide students with knowledge and skills to make them highly employable in the environmental sector through specialist knowledge, work experience opportunities including placements and generic skills

Modules (2018/19)

BSc/BA 

Outdoor and sports enthusiast interested in football, rugby, tennis, hockey, skiing, kayaking, running and trekking/hillwalking. I am having to resign myself these day, given my age and being a father, to more watching and coaching than playing! My wish is to have visited as many countries as my age and to always run 10km in minutes equivalent to my age!