Earth's surface acts as the interface between the geologic, biologic, hydrologic, hydrodynamic and human processes that drive environmental change.
Our multidisciplinary research group includes experts interested in understanding the movement of water and sediment across and through Earth's surface.
We attempt to understand a future world with a warmer climate and different land uses.
We explain past and present landscapes through process measurements, laboratory experiments and numerical modelling.
Amcanion
We attempt to understand a future world with a warmer climate and different land uses.
We explain past and present landscapes through process measurements, laboratory experiments, and numerical modelling.
Ymchwil
Funding
Hales, T. C. Resilience to Earthquake-induced Landslide Hazard in China (REACH). Natural Environmental Research Council Directed Programme. NE/N012240/1. 2015, £500,000
Cuthbert, M. O. Groundwater recharge in global drylands: processes, quantification & sensitivities to environmental change. NERC NE/P017819/1. August 2017-July 2022, £717,000
Singer, M., Roberts, D., Caylor, K. and Stella, J. Understanding and assessing riparian habitat vulnerability to drought-prone climate regimes on Department of Defense bases in the Southwestern USA. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, US Department of Defense. 2018-2022, $1,704,236
Singer, M. and Stella, J. Assessing riparian forest water sources in the Santa Clara River basin. The Nature Conservancy. 2017-2020, $82,085
Singer, M., Stella, J. and Caylor, K. Impacts of dynamic, climate-driven water availability on tree water use and health in Mediterranean riparian forests. National Science Foundation (Hydrologic Sciences). 2017-2020, $450,366
Stella, J., Singer, M. and Roberts, D. Linking basin-scale, stand-level, and individual tree water stress indicators for groundwater-dependent riparian forests in multiple-use river basins. National Science Foundation (Geography and Spatial Sciences). 2017-2020, $449,982 ($302,235 to UCSB)
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- Hales, T. 2018. Modelling biome-scale root reinforcement and slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43 (10), pp.2157-2166. (10.1002/esp.4381)
- Rust, W. et al., 2018. A conceptual model for climatic teleconnection signal control on groundwater variability in the UK and Europe. Earth-Science Reviews 177 , pp.164-174. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.09.017)
- Singer, M. B. and Michaelides, K. 2017. Deciphering the expression of climate change within the Lower Colorado River basin by stochastic simulation of convective rainfall. Environmental Research Letters 12 (10) 104011. (10.1088/1748-9326/aa8e50)
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2017. Modification of river meandering by tropical deforestation. Geology 45 (6), pp.511-514. (10.1130/G38740.1)
- Cuthbert, M. O. et al. 2017. Modelling the role of groundwater hydro-refugia in East African hominin evolution and dispersal. Nature Communications 8 15696. (10.1038/ncomms15696)
- Hales, T. and Miniat, C. F. 2017. Soil moisture causes dynamic adjustments to root reinforcement that reduce slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (5), pp.803-813. (10.1002/esp.4039)
- Hobley, D. E. J. et al. 2017. Creative computing with Landlab: an open-source toolkit for building, coupling, and exploring two-dimensional numerical models of Earth-surface dynamics. Earth Surface Dynamics 5 , pp.21-46. (10.5194/esurf-5-21-2017)
- Acworth, R. I. et al., 2016. An objective frequency domain method for quantifying confined aquifer compressible storage using Earth and atmospheric tides. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (22), pp.11671-11678. (10.1002/2016GL071328)
- Sargeant, C. and Singer, M. B. 2016. Sub-annual variability in historical water source use by Mediterranean riparian trees. Ecohydrology 9 (7), pp.1328-1345. (10.1002/eco.1730)
- Singer, M. et al. 2016. Hydrologic indicators of hot spots and hot moments of mercury methylation potential along river corridors. Science of the Total Environment 568 , pp.697-711.
- Parker, R. N. et al. 2016. Colluvium supply in humid regions limits the frequency of storm-triggered landslides. Scientific Reports 6 34438. (10.1038/srep34438)
- Kusche, J. et al., 2016. Mapping probabilities of extreme continental water storage changes from space gravimetry. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (15), pp.8026-8034. (10.1002/2016GL069538)
- Earlie, C. S. et al. 2015. Coastal cliff ground motions and response to extreme storm waves. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (3), pp.847-854. (10.1002/2014GL062534)
- Slater, L. J. , Singer, M. B. and Kirchner, J. W. 2015. Hydrologic versus geomorphic drivers of trends in flood hazard. Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2), pp.370-376. (10.1002/2014GL062482)
- Singer, M. B. and Michaelides, K. 2014. How is topographic simplicity maintained in ephemeral dryland channels?. Geology 42 (12), pp.1091-1094. (10.1130/G36267.1)
- Singer, M. B. et al. 2014. Floodplain ecohydrology: Climatic, anthropogenic, and local physical controls on partitioning of water sources to riparian trees. Water Resources Research 50 (5), pp.4490-4513. (10.1002/2014WR015581)
Ysgolion
Delweddau
The interaction between glaciers, hydrology and land use in Switzerland. We have a number of members of our group investigating the sustainable use of water in all environments.
Glacial processes in action above the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland. Glacial geomorphology and an understanding of glacial processes forms one of the core research themes of our group.
Damage to a school building in Yinxiu, near the epicentre of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake. Members of our group are looking to develop resilience to earthquakes and other natural hazards.
The research group install seismometers to investigate how coasts erode.
Tropical deforestation affects many geomorphic processes. We work on the Kinabatangan River, Borneo, to understand how land use change can affect river processes.
Researcher measuring changes in sea cliffs.
Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, one of the great local venues to observe the interactions between coastal and fluvial processes.
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