Professor of Physical Geography, University of Manchester
I am a Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography at The University of Manchester and a member of the Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology Research Group. Current research themes include exploring records of human activity in ice age environments, Holocene river environments, Anthropocene rivers and microplastic contamination, geoarchaeology of the Nile Valley, records of Pleistocene glaciation and river behaviour in the Mediterranean mountains. I also co-edit Geoarchaeology: An International Journal.
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