Professor Stephen Tooth CGeog

Biography

Occupation: lecturer Employer: Univ of Wales, Aberystwyth Memo: Stephen is a Reader in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales (formerly University of Wales, Aberystwyth). Stephen has a BSc in Geography from the University of Southampton, a PhD from the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Stephen's research interests include geomorphology and fluvial sedimentology, especially in the drylands of Australia and southern Africa. Particular research themes include: anabranching rivers; floodplains and floodouts; wetlands in drylands; channel-vegetation interactions; bedrock-influenced rivers; controls on gully erosion; long-term fluvial landscape development; palaeoenvironmental change; and the use of Earth analogues for interpretations of the geomorphology of Mars.