Dr Peter Downs CGeog (Geomorph)

Biography

Memo: Peter is currently an Associate Professor in Physical Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Plymouth, UK, and is course director for the Masters degree in Sustainable Environmental Management. From 2002-2010 he was a consultant scientist at Stillwater Sciences in Berkeley, California, where as Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist he managed geomorphology and other staff undertaking process studies of geomorphology and integrated projects of watershed assessment and river restoration planning and design. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Leicester, a Ph.D. from the University of Southampton, and was previously a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Nottingham (1993-2000). He has published widely on the topics of human impacts on fluvial systems, the sensitivity of river channel morphodynamics, and river restoration and management. In this regard, he co-authored ‘River Channel Management: towards sustainable catchment hydrosystems’ with K.J. Gregory in 2004.