DrAlexander Whittaker
Reader in Landscape Dynamics
Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0002-8781-7771 (opens in a new tab)
- Reader in Landscape DynamicsDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 7491 (Work)
- 3.51, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
I have a number of active research areas which focus on the links between tectonics, climate, erosion and sedimentation in time and space. I am involved in research projects and fieldwork in the Apennines, Italy; the Gulfs of Corinth and Evia, Greece; the Spanish Pyrenees; and the United States.
The earth's landscape represents the time-integrated product of the interplay between tectonics, which creates relief, and climate, which promotes erosion. Understanding how landscapes respond to perturbations in these two boundary conditions is therefore a key challenge within the Geosciences. In particular I have been working on:
1) Understanding the links between active normal faulting and landscape response in Italy and Greece
2) Assessing the extent to which transient landscapes can be used as a tectonic archive
3) Predicting geomorphic responses to climate and tectonic change to develop models of how landscapes evolve through time.
4) Quantifying the behaviour of sediment routing systems that control the movement of sediment across the Earth's surface.
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I have a number of active research areas which focus on the links between tectonics, climate, erosion and sedimentation in time and space. I am involved in research projects and fieldwork in the Apennines, Italy; the Gulfs of Corinth and Evia, Greece; the Spanish Pyrenees; and the United States.
The earth's landscape represents the time-integrated product of the interplay between tectonics, which creates relief, and climate, which promotes erosion. Understanding how landscapes respond to perturbations in these two boundary conditions is therefore a key challenge within the Geosciences. In particular I have been working on:
1) Understanding the links between active normal faulting and landscape response in Italy and Greece
2) Assessing the extent to which transient landscapes can be used as a tectonic archive
3) Predicting geomorphic responses to climate and tectonic change to develop models of how landscapes evolve through time.
4) Quantifying the behaviour of sediment routing systems that control the movement of sediment across the Earth's surface.
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