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

: 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)

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.