Prof Stephen Tooth

Geography BSc degree from the University of Southampton

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

Prof Stephen Tooth

Chair

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

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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. He undertook post doctoral work at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, before joining DGES (formerly IGES) in April 2000.

Research

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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; global climate change and the Anthropocene; and the use of drylands on Earth as analogues for Martian surface environments.

Current PhD Students

: Sioned Llywelyn (co-supervised with Dr Hywel Griffiths and Dr Cerys Jones)

: Julian Ruddock (co-supervised with Professor John Harvey, School of Art)

: Zacc Larkin (Macquarie University, Sydney: co-supervised with Dr Tim Ralph and Professor Kirstie Fryirs)

Publications

Griffiths, H, Tooth, S & Kaless, G 2023, Exploring 'y paith': historical and contemporary perceptions of desert environments in Patagonia, Argentina. in Storied Deserts.
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
Tooth, S, McCarthy, TS, Duller, GAT, Assine, ML, Wolski, P & Coetzee, G 2022, 'Significantly enhanced mid Holocene fluvial activity in a globally important, arid-zone wetland: The Okavango Delta, Botswana', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 854-871. 10.1002/esp.5289
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