Prof Stephen Tooth

Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton

PhD in Physical Geography from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

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.

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)

Publications

Corenblit, D, Piégay, H, Arrignon, F, González-Sargas, E, Bonis, A, Davies, NS, Ebengo, DM, Garófano-Gómez, V, Gurnell, AM, Henry, AL, Hortobágyi, B, Martínez-Capel, F, Steiger, J, Tabacchi, E, Tooth, S, Vautier, F & Walcker, R 2024, 'Interactions between vegetation and river morphodynamics. Part I: Research clarifications and challenges', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 253, 104769. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104769
Tooth, S 2023, 'How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, vol. 134, no. 5-6, pp. 657-658. 10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.05.001
Tooth, S, Ralph, T, Larkin, Z & McCarthy, T 2023, Rivers and resilience: A longer term view from the drylands. in Resilience and Riverine Landscapes. Elsevier, pp. 177-207. 10.1016/B978-0-323-91716-2.00009-1
Tooth, S 2022, Dryland Fluvial Environments: Assessing Distinctiveness and Diversity From a Global Perspective. in JF Shroder (ed.), Treatise on Geomorphology. 2 edn, Elsevier, pp. 961-993. 10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.60044-5
Macklin, M, Booth, J, Brewer, P, Tooth, S & Duller, GAT 2022, 'How have Cretan rivers responded to late Holocene uplift? A multi-millennial, multi-catchment field experiment to evaluate the applicability of Schumm and Parker's (1973) complex response model', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 2178-2197. 10.1002/esp.5370
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