Professor Julian Orford CGeog

Biography

Memo: Julian is Head of Department at Queen’s University Belfast. Julian has a BA in Geography and Sociology from University of Keele, an MSc from Salford and a PhD from Reading. Julian’s research interests on coastal research concentrated on the dynamics and development of gravel beaches and barriers in Britain and eastern Canada, with respect to sea-level changes. More recently moving in to the wide range of coastal morphology (barriers, dunes and marshes) to both sea-level change as well as to increased storminess related to climatic change, spatial and temporal mesoscale approaches to studying coastal development is currently focusing on the role of extreme events in coastal morphology in particular beach/dune interactions and shoreline management.