Geomorphological Fieldwork (Developments in Earth Surface Processes): Volume 18 - Hardcover

Mary J. Thornbush

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444634029 ISBN 13: 9780444634023

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Geomorphological Fieldwork addresses a topic that always remains popular within the geosciences and environmental science. More specifically, the volume conveys a growing legacy of field-based learning for young geomorphologists that can be used as a student book for field-based university courses and postgraduate research requiring fieldwork or field schools. The editors have much experience of field-based learning within geomorphology and extend this to physical geography. The topics covered are relevant to basic geomorphology as well as applied approaches in environmental and cultural geomorphology. The book integrates a physical-human approach to geography, but focuses on physical geography and geomorphology from an integrated field-based geoscience perspective. * Addresses fluvial and karst landscapes in depth* Focuses on field-based learning as well as educational geomorphology* Conveys experiential knowledge in international contexts

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About the Author

Dr Mary J. Thornbush is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been conducting field-based research in geomorphology since 1999, when she examined Holocene landscape change in a fluvial landscape located in southern Ontario, Canada. She subsequently shifted to urban-based studies and has been examining environmental geomorphology in particular of weathering science since 2002, when she attended the University of Oxford for her doctoral degree and final research training. She was awarded her doctorate in 2006 and remained Senior Research Associate of the Oxford University Centre for the Environment until 2008. She became Assistant Professor at Lakehead University's Orillia Campus as part of Geography and Interdisciplinary Studies until 2010. Dr Thornbush was Visiting Research Fellow with the Initiative of Heritage Conservancy in Greece before coming to the University of Birmingham in March 2011. She continues to collaborate with human geographers as well as archaeologists in European research. Dr Thornbush is currently working on several initiatives, including an authored eBook entitled Photographs Across Time: Studies in Urban Landscapes with an archaeologist, and is associate editor for two special issues to be published by the journal Area and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Dr Thornbush represents the UK Chapter as part of the International Association for Geoethics, where she heads a newly formed committee that addresses issues of gender in the geosciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444634029
• ISBN 13: 9780444634023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Mary J. Thornbush, Casey Allen, Faith A. Fitzpatrick