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

Contact Details

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.

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

: Blue Bell  (AU, co-supervised with Dr Hywel Griffiths, DGES)

: 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)

A thriving early-mid Holocene river? Emerging geochronological evidence from the Luni River floodout zone, northwestern India. / Mukherjee, Jayesh; Tooth, Stephen; Duller, Geoff A. T. et al.
2025. 69 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

Rapid rewetting is rapidly degrading some of the world’s drylands. / Singh, Manudeo; Tooth, Stephen; Mukherjee, Jayesh et al.
2025. 30 Poster session presented at British Society for Geomorphology Annual Conference 2025, Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

Reconstructing the dynamics of a dryland river floodout zone in the Indian Thar desert using OSL chronology. / Mukherjee, Jayesh; Tooth, Stephen; Duller, G. A. T.
2025. 67 Poster session presented at UK Luminescence and Electron Spin Resonance Dating Meeting 2025, St Andrews, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

Should academic success be redefined amidst the climate and environmental crisis? A dialogue between five UK geographers. / Clarke, Lucy; Tooth, Stephen; Viles, Heather et al.
In: Geo: Geography and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1, e70005, 10.04.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Surveys conducted a third of a century apart reveal changes to in-stream large wood, riparian vegetation and stream planform in response to management within a UK national park. / Gurnell, Angela M.; Hill, Christopher T.; Tooth, Stephen.
In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Vol. 50, No. 3, e70025, 15.03.2025.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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