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I would be very happy to discuss potential PhD projects in the general area of microplastics in rivers, Anthropocene rivers, Quaternary environmental change and geoarchaeology of the Mediterranean and Nile Valley.
At The University of Manchester
External Examining
Year 1
Keswick fieldcourse
GEOG 10401 - Environmental Processes and Change: The Global System (with Gareth Clay)
Year 2
GEOG 20062 - Dissertation tutorials
Year 3
GEOG 30130 - Ice Age Earth: Global and Mediterranean Perspectives (with Phil Hughes)
Masters
GEOG 40100 - Contemporary Geographical Research
GEOG 40300 - Research Project
BSc (Aberystwyth); PhD (Cambridge)
Jamie is a geomorphologist with particular interests in the nature and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean region and the Nile basin. A good deal of his work takes place in close collaboration with archaeologists and he is interested in the theoretical and practical interface between geography, geoscience and archaeology. Jamie is currently working on two projects in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan with archaeologists from the British Museum exploring the relationship between human activity and environmental change over the last 10,000 years or so. This work is funded by the Australian Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. You will find a report on some of this work from the 2011 field season here. Public outreach is an important part of his work: Jamie worked closely with colleagues at the Manchester Museum on the Ancient Worlds galleries which opened in late 2012. He has been the Editor of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal since 2007. In 2008 he was awarded a personal chair – the first in Physical Geography at The University of Manchester. With other colleagues in Geography he set up the Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology Research Group in late 2004. This cluster forms a key part of Physical Geography research and teaching at Manchester. Jamie has just completed The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction for Oxford University Press.
Jamie is a geomorphologist and geoarchaeologist with particular interests in the nature and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean and the Nile basin. A good deal of his work takes place in close collaboration with archaeologists and he is interested in the theoretical and practical interface between geography, geoscience and archaeology.
His PhD formed part of the Klithi Project in Epirus, Northwest Greece, directed by Geoff Bailey. A good deal of Jamie's PhD research has been published in five chapters in the seminal Klithi project monographs.
The Mediterranean landscape contains some of the best records of long-term change available anywhere on Earth. In addition, the richness of the cultural records allows human-environment interactions to be studied in unusual detail and often over very long timescales.
Jamie works in a range of geomorphological environments in the Mediterranean and in the Nile basin. He is especially interested in developing geochronologies (using, for example, OSL, radiocarbon and uranium series techniques) for sedimentary archives of change across a range of timescales. Another key interest involves the development of sediment sourcing methods to improve our understanding of past geomorphological systems at a range of spatial scales. This involves mega-scale work in the Nile basin (>3 million km 2 ) using strontium isotopes as well as smaller scale tracing studies including, for example, work in the Voidomatis River basin in NW Greece (<400 km 2 ) where XRF has been used to identify the source of Pleistocene slackwater sediments to considerably enhance our understanding of the palaeoflood record. Click on the Publications tab to view some of the outcomes of this work.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Woodward, J. (Recipient), 5 Sept 2017
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