Dr Stephen Tooth

Reader
Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton
PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Photograph of Dr Stephen Tooth.

Contact

Email: set@aber.ac.uk
Office: E4
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622 361
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622 659
Personal Web Site:http://users.aber.ac.uk/set/

Responsibilities

  • Programme Coordinator for Geography (Science) degree Schemes

Teaching Areas

Modules Taught

Module coordinator for:

  • Climate Change: Impacts, Perceptions, Adaptations (GG10810)

Contributes to:

  • Research Design and Techniques in Physical Geography (GG20130/GG20230)
  • Paleoenvironmental Change Beyond the ice sheets (GG33120)
  • Geography Dissertation (GG39130)

Research

Group Affiliation

Research Interests

Geomorphology and sedimentology, especially in the drylands of Australia and southern Africa. 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; and the use of drylands on Earth as analogues for Martian surface environments.

Current PhD Students

Biography

Dr Stephen Tooth graduated with a Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton and completed a PhD at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He undertook post doctoral work at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, before joining IGES in April 2000.

Staff Publications

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters & Journal Articles

In Press

  1. Tooth, S. 2012, Dryland fluvial environments: assessing distinctiveness and diversity from a global perspective. Invited chapter contribution to Shroder, J., Jr. and Wohl, E.E. (Eds.), Treatise on Geomorphology. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, vol. 9, pp. xx–xx (in press).
  2. Tooth, S. 2012, Google Earth in geomorphology: re-enchanting, revolutionising, or just another resource? Invited chapter contribution to Switzer, A. and Kennedy, D. (Eds), Treatise on Geomorphology (Methods in Geomorphology), American Geophysical Union (in press).
  3. McCarthy, T.S., Tooth, S., Jacobs, Z., Rowberry, M.D., Thompson, M., Brandt, D., Hancox, P.J., Marren, P.H., Woodborne, S. and Ellery W.N. (011, The origin and development of the Nyl River floodplain wetland: trunk-tributary river interactions in a dryland setting. South African Geographical Journal, in press.

2010

  1. Macklin, M.G., Tooth, S., Brewer, P.A., Noble, P.L. and Duller, G.A.T. 2010, Holocene flooding and river development in a Mediterranean steepland catchment: the Anapodaris Gorge, south-central Crete, Greece. In: Woodward, J.C., Brewer, P.A., Macklin, M.G. and Tooth, S. (Eds), Advances in Palaeoflood Science, Special Issue of Global and Planetary Change, 70 (1), pp.35-52. DOI
  2. McCarthy, T.S., Tooth, S., Kotze, D.C., Collins, N., Wandrag, G. and Pike, T. (2010), The role of geomorphology in evaluating remediation options for floodplain wetlands: the case of Ramsar-listed Seekoeivlei, eastern South Africa, Wetlands Ecology and Management, 18 (2), pp.119-134 DOI
  3. Woodward, J.C., Tooth, S., Brewer, P.A. and Macklin, M.G. (2010), The 4th International Palaeoflood Workshop and trends in palaeoflood science. In: Woodward, J.C., Brewer, P.A., Macklin, M.G. and Tooth, S. (Eds), Advances in Palaeoflood Science, Special Issue of Global and Planetary Change, 70 (1), pp.1-4 DOI
  4. McCarthy, T.S., Ellery, W.N., Backwell, L., Marren, P., de Klerk, B., Tooth, S., Brandt, D. and Woodborne, S. (2010), The character, origin and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Wonderkrater spring mound, South Africa, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 58 (1), pp.115-126. DOI

2009

  1. Tooth S. 2009. Invisible geomorphology?. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 34: 752-754. DOI
  2. Tooth S, Rodnight H, McCarthy TS, Duller GAT, Grundling AT. 2009. Late Quaternary dynamics of a South African floodplain wetland and the implications for assessing recent human impacts. Geomorphology, 106: 278-291. DOI
  3. Paillou P, Schuster M, Tooth S, Farr T, Rosenqvist A, Lopez S, Malezieux J-M. 2009. Mapping of a major paleodrainage system in eastern Libya using orbital imaging radar: The Kufrah River. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 277: 327-333. DOI
  4. Tooth S. 2009. Arid geomorphology: emerging research themes and new frontiers. Progress in Physical Geography, 33: 251-287. DOI

2008

  1. Tooth S, Jansen J, Nanson GC, Coulthard TJ, Pietsch T. 2008. Riparian vegetation and the late Holocene development of an anabranching river: Magela Creek, northern Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120(7/8): 1021-1035. DOI
  2. Tooth S. 2008. Arid geomorphology: recent progress from an Earth System Science perspective. Progress in Physical Geography, 32(1): 81-101. DOI

2007

  1. Tooth S, McCarthy TS. 2007. Wetlands in drylands: geomorphological and sedimentological characteristics, with emphasis on examples from southern Africa. Progress in Physical Geography, 31: 3-41. DOI
  2. Tooth S. 2007. Arid geomorphology: investigating past, present and future changes. Progress in Physical Geography, 31: 319-335. DOI
  3. Tooth S, Rodnight H, Duller GAT, McCarthy TS, Marren PM, Brandt D. 2007. Chronology and controls of avulsion along a mixed bedrock-alluvial river. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119: 452-461. DOI

2006

  1. Tooth S. 2006. Virtual globes: a catalyst for the re-enchantment of geomorphology?. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31: 1192-1194.
  2. Marren PM, McCarthy TS, Tooth S, Brandt D, Stacey GG, Leong A, Spottiswoode B. 2006. A comparison of mud- and sand-dominated meanders in a downstream coarsening reach of the mixed bedrock-alluvial Klip River, eastern Free State, South Africa. Sedimentary Geology, 190: 213-226.
  3. Rodnight H, Duller GAT, Wintle AG, Tooth S. 2006. Assessing the reproducibility and accuracy of optical dating of fluvial deposits. Quaternary Geochronology, 1: 109-120. DOI
  4. Springer GS, Tooth S, Wohl EE. 2006. Theoretical modeling of stream potholes based upon empirical observations from the Orange River, Republic of South Africa. Geomorphology, 82: 160-176.

2005

  1. Tooth S. 2005. Splay formation along the lower reaches of ephemeral rivers on the Northern Plains of arid central Australia. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75: 636-649.
  2. Springer GS, Tooth S, Wohl EE. 2005. Dynamics of pothole growth as defined by field data and geometrical description. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 110: F04010. DOI
  3. Rodnight H, Duller GAT, Tooth S, Wintle AG. 2005. Optical dating of a scroll-bar sequence on the Klip River, South Africa, to derive the lateral migration rate of a meander bend. The Holocene, 15: 802-811. DOI