Prof Stephen Tooth
Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton
PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Chair
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Contact Details
- Email: set@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0001-5714-2606
- Office: E1, Llandinam Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622361
- Personal Website: http://users.aber.ac.uk/set/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=s0F8wzsAAAAJ
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Professor Stephen Tooth graduated with a Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton and completed a PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Following a short stint as a Temporary Lecturer at the University of Nottingham, England, he undertook postdoctoral work at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, before joining DGES (formerly IGES) in April 2000.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- EAM4660 - Dissertation in Environmental Change Impacts and Adaptation
- GS32120 - Sedimentary Environments
Lecturer
- GS35240 - Environmental Science Dissertation
- GS21120 - Physical Geography and Environmental Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS20020 - Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills
- PGM2310 - Research Skills and Personal Development (Science) (2310)
- GS34220 - Geography Joint Honours/Major Project
- GS35140 - Environmental Earth Science Dissertation
- DA34040 - Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth
- DA34220 - Prosiect Daearyddiaeth Anrhydedd Cyfun/Prif Bwnc
- GS32120 - Sedimentary Environments
Tutor
- EAM1120 - Advanced Research Skills 1: science communication and data analysis
- GS34040 - Geography Dissertation
- GS32120 - Sedimentary Environments
Coordinator
- EAM4660 - Dissertation in Environmental Change Impacts and Adaptation
- GS32120 - Sedimentary Environments
Moderator
Research
Group Affiliation
Earth Surface Processes Research Group
Research Interests
Geomorphology and sedimentology, especially in the drylands of Australia, southern Africa, southern Europe, South America and India. 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; global climate change and the Anthropocene; and the use of drylands on Earth as analogues for Martian surface environments. Other interests include environmental issues more generally, such as current debates about global climate change and the Anthropocene, science-art collaborations, and science education.
Current PhD Students
: Jayesh Mukherjee (AU, co-supervised with Dr Hywel Griffiths, DGES)
: Nuala Dunn (AU, co-supervised with Julian Ruddock, School of Art)
: Tasmin Griffiths (University of Gibraltar, co-supervised with Keith Bensusan, Gibraltar Botanic Gardens)