Dr Hywel Griffiths

Lecturer
BSc, MSc, PhD (Wales) Photograph of Dr Hywel Griffiths.

Contact

Email: hmg@aber.ac.uk
Office: E6
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622 674
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659

Responsibilities

  • Degree scheme leader for L702 (F801) BSc Daearyddiaeth
  • Degree scheme leader for F840 BSc Physical Geography
  • Welsh medium marketing and recruitment
  • Member of Website team
  • Member of the School of Welsh Medium Studies
  • Member of the Environmental and Biological Subject Panel of the Centre for the Development of Welsh Medium Education

Teaching Areas

Module coordinator

  • EA12210: The Atmosphere and Water Cycle
  • DA22510: Geomorffoleg Afonol (Fluvial Geomorphology)
  • DA31620: Adnoddau Dwr a Hydroleg Byd Eang (Global hydrology and water resources)

Contributor

  • DA22110: Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 2
  • GG22110: Level 2 Geography Tutorial
  • DA12810: Byw gyda risg (Living with Risk)
  • DA10810: Amgylcheddau Cymru (The environments of Wales)
  • DA10910: Methodoleg Maes Amgylcheddol (Environmental Field Methodology)
  • GG22420: Geography Fieldwork (Dublin and the Wicklow Mountains)
  • DA34040: Traethawd estynedig daearyddiaeth
  • GG34040: Geography dissertation
  • Personal tutor

Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

  • Rates, pattens and controls of fluvial processes.
  • The impact of anthropogenic activities on fluvial processes.
  • The impact of Holocene environmental change on fluvial systems.
  • The long term development of the fluvial landscape of Wales.
  • Theoretical geomorphology, especially complexity and self organised criticality.
  • Using historical documentary sources to infer geomorphological and climatic change.
  • Hydropolitics.

Current projects

  • Recent rates of geomorphological change on the rivers of the South Wales valleys: implications for flood prediction and mitigation

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

2008

  1. Griffiths HM. 2008. Geomorffoleg afonol Cymru: heddiw, ddoe ac yfory. Gwerddon, 2(3): 40-83.

Conference presentations

2007

  1. Griffiths, H.M., Brewer, P.A. and Macklin, M.G. (2007) Historical rates of vertical instability dynamics on Welsh rivers. 4th International Paleoflood Workshop, Crete, 24-30 June, 2007
  2. Griffiths, H.M., Brewer, P.A. and Macklin, M.G. (2007) Historical rates of vertical channel instability dynamics on Welsh rivers. BGRG Annual Conference, Birmingham.