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Professor Tristram Hales
(he/him)
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Teams and roles for Tristram Hales
Professor of Environmental Hazards
Overview
T.C. Hales is an interdisciplinary scientist and Professor of Environmental Hazards, interested understanding the relationship between ecological and social systems and environmental hazards. T.C. works on two major projects that focus on the interplay between land use decisions and erosion by rivers and landslides. His work on the lower Kinabatangan River in Malaysian Borneo seeks to understand the drivers and effects of tropical deforestation on erosion and sequestration of carbon within soils. As Chair of the Regrow Borneo project, he is applying this research to develop a community reforestation programme to restore forests and sequester carbon. His work on erosional processes after the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake has investigated how persistent landslides and mudflows affect the vulnerability of communities recovering from earthquakes. He directed the Sustainable Places Research Institute in 2020-2021.
Publication
2026
- Liu, J. et al. 2026. Earthquakes act as a capacitor for terrestrial organic carbon. Nature Communications (10.1038/s41467-026-68341-3)
2025
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2025. The hazard of large debris flows. Science Advances 11 eadz4625. (10.1126/sciadv.adz4625)
- Utley, I. et al. 2025. Transformations in exposure to debris flows in post-earthquake Sichuan, China. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 25 (8), pp.2699-2716. (10.5194/nhess-25-2699-2025)
- Kargère, B. et al., 2025. A fractal framework for channel-hillslope coupling. Earth Surface Dynamics 13 (3), pp.403-415. (10.5194/esurf-13-403-2025)
- Huang, J. et al., 2025. Volume estimation for high-locality fragmented rockfall using UAV-based photogrammetry. Natural Hazards 121 , pp.7347-7364. (10.1007/s11069-024-07092-0)
- Newport, B. et al., 2025. Simplifying drone-based aboveground carbon density measurements to support community forestry. Plos One 20 (4) e0322099. (10.1371/journal.pone.0322099)
- Shaddick, G. et al. 2025. Data science and AI for sustainable futures: Opportunities and challenges. Sustainability 17 (5) 2019. (10.3390/su17052019)
2024
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2024. Grain-size variability in debris flows of different runout lengths, Wenchuan, China. GSA Bulletin 136 (7-8), pp.2676-2688. (10.1130/B37027.1)
- Ran, J. et al., 2024. Towards hazard-resilience cities: Comparative research on resilience-related policies and local practices in five cities worldwide. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 12 (1), pp.26-46. (10.15302/J-LAF-1-020091)
2023
- Heinrich, V. et al., 2023. Mind the gap: reconciling tropical forest carbon flux estimates from earth observation and national reporting requires transparency. Carbon Balance and Management 18 22. (10.1186/s13021-023-00240-2)
- Hughes, S. , Alves, T. M. and Hales, T. 2023. Combined oil spill modelling and shoreline sensitivity analysis for contingency planning in the Irish Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 193 115154. (10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115154)
- Heinrich, V. H. A. et al., 2023. The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests. Nature 615 (7952), pp.436–442. (10.1038/s41586-022-05679-w)
2022
- Deljouei, A. et al., 2022. Implications of hornbeam and beech root systems on slope stability: from field and laboratory measurements to modelling methods. Plant and Soil (10.1007/s11104-022-05764-z)
- Karimi, Z. et al., 2022. Vegetation-induced soil stabilization in coastal area: An example from a natural mangrove forest. CATENA 216 (Part B) 106410. (10.1016/j.catena.2022.106410)
- Liu, J. et al., 2022. Ecosystem carbon stock loss after a mega earthquake. CATENA 216 (a) 106393. (10.1016/j.catena.2022.106393)
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2022. Measuring the grain-size distributions of mass movement deposits. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47 (6), pp.1599-1614. (10.1002/esp.5337)
- Francis, O. et al. 2022. The fate of sediment after a large earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface 127 (3) e2021JF006352. (10.1029/2021JF006352)
- Roering, J. and Hales, T. 2022. Changing Hillslopes: Evolution and Inheritance; Inheritance and Evolution of Slopes. In: Schroder, J. F. ed. Treatise on Geomorphology 2nd ed.. , pp.184-205. (10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.01012-9)
2021
- Phillips, C. et al., 2021. Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective. Ecological Engineering 173 106436. (10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106436)
- 2021. Sustainable Places Research Institute: Our legacy. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Sustainable Places Research Institute. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/sustainable-places/research/our-legacy.
- Mithan, H. T. , Hales, T. C. and Cleall, P. J. 2021. Topographic and ground-ice controls on shallow landsliding in thawing Arctic permafrost. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (13) e2020GL092264. (10.1029/2020GL092264)
- Heinrich, V. H. A. et al., 2021. Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change. Nature Communications 12 (1) 1785. (10.1038/s41467-021-22050-1)
- Chang, M. et al., 2021. Patterns of rainfall-threshold for debris-flow occurrence in the Wenchuan seismic region, Southwest China. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 80 (3), pp.2117-2130. (10.1007/s10064-020-02080-7)
2020
- Ciampalini, R. et al. 2020. Modelling soil erosion responses to climate change in three catchments of Great Britain. Science of the Total Environment 749 141657. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141657)
- Song, J. et al. 2020. Tectonic evolution of strike-slip zones on continental margins and their impact on the development of submarine landslides (Storegga Slide, northeast Atlantic). Geological Society of America Bulletin 132 (11-12), pp.2397–2414. (10.1130/B35421.1)
- Huang, J. et al., 2020. A hybrid machine-learning model to estimate potential debris-flow volumes. Geomorphology 367 107333. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107333)
- Chang, M. et al., 2020. Coseismic landslides induced by the 2018 Mw 6.6 Iburi, Japan, Earthquake: spatial distribution, key factors weight, and susceptibility regionalization. Landslides (10.1007/s10346-020-01522-3)
- Francis, O. et al. 2020. The impact of earthquakes on orogen-scale exhumation. Earth Surface Dynamics 8 , pp.579-593. (10.5194/esurf-8-579-2020)
- Ran, J. et al. 2020. The application of frameworks for measuring social vulnerability and resilience to geophysical hazards within developing countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Science of the Total Environment 711 134486. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134486)
2019
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2019. Identifying post-earthquake debris flow hazard using Massflow. Engineering Geology 258 105134. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.05.011)
- Mithan, H. T. , Hales, T. C. and Cleall, P. J. 2019. Supervised classification of landforms in Arctic mountains. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 30 (3), pp.131-145. (10.1002/ppp.2015)
- Fan, X. et al., 2019. Earthquake-induced chains of geologic hazards: patterns, mechanisms, and impacts. Reviews of Geophysics 57 (2), pp.421-503. (10.1029/2018RG000626)
- Domènech, G. et al., 2019. Modelling the role of material depletion, grain coarsening and revegetation in debris flow occurrences after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Engineering Geology 250 , pp.34-44. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.01.010)
2018
- Fan, X. et al., 2018. Spatio-temporal evolution of mass wasting after the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake revealed by a detailed multi-temporal inventory. Landslides 15 (12), pp.2325-2341. (10.1007/s10346-018-1054-5)
- Grieve, S. W. D. et al., 2018. Controls on zero order basin morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 123 (12), pp.3269-3291. (10.1029/2017JF004453)
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2018. Can riparian forest buffers increase yields from oil palm plantations?. Earth's Future 6 (8), pp.1082-1096. (10.1029/2018EF000874)
- Hales, T. 2018. Modelling biome-scale root reinforcement and slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43 (10), pp.2157-2166. (10.1002/esp.4381)
- Cere, G. et al. 2018. Multi-objective consideration of earthquake resilience in the built environment: The case of Wenchuan earthquake. Presented at: International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) Funchal, Portugal 27-29 Jun 2017. Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation. IEEE. , pp.513-520. (10.1109/ICE.2017.8279929)
2017
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2017. Modification of river meandering by tropical deforestation. Geology 45 (6), pp.511-514. (10.1130/G38740.1)
- Hales, T. and Miniat, C. F. 2017. Soil moisture causes dynamic adjustments to root reinforcement that reduce slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (5), pp.803-813. (10.1002/esp.4039)
- Cere, G. et al. 2017. Multi-objective consideration of earthquake resilience in the built environment: the case of Wenchuan earthquake. Presented at: 2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) Madeira, Portugal 26-30 June 2017.
2016
- Parker, R. N. et al. 2016. Colluvium supply in humid regions limits the frequency of storm-triggered landslides. Scientific Reports 6 34438. (10.1038/srep34438)
- Wooten, R. M. et al., 2016. Frequency and magnitude of selected historical landslide events in the Southern Appalachian Highlands of North Carolina and Virginia: relationships to rainfall, geological and ecohydrological controls and effects. In: Greenburg, C. H. and Collins, B. S. eds. Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests USA. Managing Forest Ecosystems Vol. 32.Springer
2015
- Marshall, J. A. et al., 2015. Frost for the trees: Did climate increase erosion in unglaciated landscapes during the late Pleistocene?. Science Advances 1 (10) e1500715. (10.1126/sciadv.1500715)
- Hwang, T. et al., 2015. Simulating vegetation controls on hurricane-induced shallow landslides with a distributed ecohydrological model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120 (2), pp.361-378. (10.1002/2014JG002824)
2013
- Dieras, P. , Constantine, J. A. and Hales, T. 2013. The role of oxbow lakes in the off-channel storage of bed material along the Ain River, France. Geomorphology 188 , pp.110-119. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.12.024)
- Hales, T. et al. 2013. Assessing the accuracy of simple field based root strength measurements. Plant and Soil 372 (1-2), pp.553-565. (10.1007/s11104-013-1765-2)
- Roering, J. J. and Hales, T. C. 2013. 7.29 Changing Hillslopes: Evolution and Inheritance; Inheritance and Evolution of Slopes. In: Shroder, J. F. , Stoffel, M. and Marston, R. A. eds. Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology. Treatise on Geomorphology Vol. 7.Amsterdam: Elsevier. , pp.284-305. (10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00178-0)
2012
- Band, L. E. et al., 2012. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: mapping and modeling ecohydrological controls of landslides. Geomorphology 137 (1), pp.159-167. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.025)
2011
- Hales, T. , Scharer, K. M. and Wooten, R. M. 2011. Southern Appalachian hillslope erosion rates measured by soil and detrital radiocarbon in hollows. Geomorphology (10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.030)
2009
- Hales, T. et al. 2009. Topographic and ecologic controls on root reinforcement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 114 F03013. (10.1029/2008JF001168)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2009. A frost "buzzsaw" mechanism for erosion of the eastern Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geomorphology 107 (3-4), pp.241-253. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.12.012)
- Hwang, T. , Band, L. and Hales, T. 2009. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: extending optimality theory from plot to catchment. Water Resources Research 45 (11), pp.1-20. (10.1029/2009WR007775)
2008
- Hales, T. and Cashman, K. V. 2008. Simulating social and political influences on hazard analysis through a classroom role playing exercise. Journal of Geoscience Education 56 (1), pp.54-60.
2007
- Almond, P. , Roering, J. J. and Hales, T. 2007. Using soil residence time to delineate spatial and temporal patterns of transient landscape response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112 (f3), pp.1-19. (10.1029/2006JF000568)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2007. Climatic controls on frost cracking and implications for the evolution of bedrock landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (f2), pp.1-14. (10.1029/2006JF000616)
2005
- Hales, T. et al. 2005. A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon. Nature 438 (7069), pp.842-845. (10.1038/nature04313)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2005. Climate controlled variations in scree production, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geology 33 (9), pp.701-704. (10.1130/G21528.1)
Articles
- Liu, J. et al. 2026. Earthquakes act as a capacitor for terrestrial organic carbon. Nature Communications (10.1038/s41467-026-68341-3)
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2025. The hazard of large debris flows. Science Advances 11 eadz4625. (10.1126/sciadv.adz4625)
- Utley, I. et al. 2025. Transformations in exposure to debris flows in post-earthquake Sichuan, China. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 25 (8), pp.2699-2716. (10.5194/nhess-25-2699-2025)
- Kargère, B. et al., 2025. A fractal framework for channel-hillslope coupling. Earth Surface Dynamics 13 (3), pp.403-415. (10.5194/esurf-13-403-2025)
- Huang, J. et al., 2025. Volume estimation for high-locality fragmented rockfall using UAV-based photogrammetry. Natural Hazards 121 , pp.7347-7364. (10.1007/s11069-024-07092-0)
- Newport, B. et al., 2025. Simplifying drone-based aboveground carbon density measurements to support community forestry. Plos One 20 (4) e0322099. (10.1371/journal.pone.0322099)
- Shaddick, G. et al. 2025. Data science and AI for sustainable futures: Opportunities and challenges. Sustainability 17 (5) 2019. (10.3390/su17052019)
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2024. Grain-size variability in debris flows of different runout lengths, Wenchuan, China. GSA Bulletin 136 (7-8), pp.2676-2688. (10.1130/B37027.1)
- Ran, J. et al., 2024. Towards hazard-resilience cities: Comparative research on resilience-related policies and local practices in five cities worldwide. Landscape Architecture Frontiers 12 (1), pp.26-46. (10.15302/J-LAF-1-020091)
- Heinrich, V. et al., 2023. Mind the gap: reconciling tropical forest carbon flux estimates from earth observation and national reporting requires transparency. Carbon Balance and Management 18 22. (10.1186/s13021-023-00240-2)
- Hughes, S. , Alves, T. M. and Hales, T. 2023. Combined oil spill modelling and shoreline sensitivity analysis for contingency planning in the Irish Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin 193 115154. (10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115154)
- Heinrich, V. H. A. et al., 2023. The carbon sink of secondary and degraded humid tropical forests. Nature 615 (7952), pp.436–442. (10.1038/s41586-022-05679-w)
- Deljouei, A. et al., 2022. Implications of hornbeam and beech root systems on slope stability: from field and laboratory measurements to modelling methods. Plant and Soil (10.1007/s11104-022-05764-z)
- Karimi, Z. et al., 2022. Vegetation-induced soil stabilization in coastal area: An example from a natural mangrove forest. CATENA 216 (Part B) 106410. (10.1016/j.catena.2022.106410)
- Liu, J. et al., 2022. Ecosystem carbon stock loss after a mega earthquake. CATENA 216 (a) 106393. (10.1016/j.catena.2022.106393)
- Harvey, E. L. et al. 2022. Measuring the grain-size distributions of mass movement deposits. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 47 (6), pp.1599-1614. (10.1002/esp.5337)
- Francis, O. et al. 2022. The fate of sediment after a large earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research. Earth Surface 127 (3) e2021JF006352. (10.1029/2021JF006352)
- Phillips, C. et al., 2021. Shallow landslides and vegetation at the catchment scale: A perspective. Ecological Engineering 173 106436. (10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106436)
- Mithan, H. T. , Hales, T. C. and Cleall, P. J. 2021. Topographic and ground-ice controls on shallow landsliding in thawing Arctic permafrost. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (13) e2020GL092264. (10.1029/2020GL092264)
- Heinrich, V. H. A. et al., 2021. Large carbon sink potential of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon to mitigate climate change. Nature Communications 12 (1) 1785. (10.1038/s41467-021-22050-1)
- Chang, M. et al., 2021. Patterns of rainfall-threshold for debris-flow occurrence in the Wenchuan seismic region, Southwest China. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 80 (3), pp.2117-2130. (10.1007/s10064-020-02080-7)
- Ciampalini, R. et al. 2020. Modelling soil erosion responses to climate change in three catchments of Great Britain. Science of the Total Environment 749 141657. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141657)
- Song, J. et al. 2020. Tectonic evolution of strike-slip zones on continental margins and their impact on the development of submarine landslides (Storegga Slide, northeast Atlantic). Geological Society of America Bulletin 132 (11-12), pp.2397–2414. (10.1130/B35421.1)
- Huang, J. et al., 2020. A hybrid machine-learning model to estimate potential debris-flow volumes. Geomorphology 367 107333. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107333)
- Chang, M. et al., 2020. Coseismic landslides induced by the 2018 Mw 6.6 Iburi, Japan, Earthquake: spatial distribution, key factors weight, and susceptibility regionalization. Landslides (10.1007/s10346-020-01522-3)
- Francis, O. et al. 2020. The impact of earthquakes on orogen-scale exhumation. Earth Surface Dynamics 8 , pp.579-593. (10.5194/esurf-8-579-2020)
- Ran, J. et al. 2020. The application of frameworks for measuring social vulnerability and resilience to geophysical hazards within developing countries: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Science of the Total Environment 711 134486. (10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134486)
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2019. Identifying post-earthquake debris flow hazard using Massflow. Engineering Geology 258 105134. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.05.011)
- Mithan, H. T. , Hales, T. C. and Cleall, P. J. 2019. Supervised classification of landforms in Arctic mountains. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 30 (3), pp.131-145. (10.1002/ppp.2015)
- Fan, X. et al., 2019. Earthquake-induced chains of geologic hazards: patterns, mechanisms, and impacts. Reviews of Geophysics 57 (2), pp.421-503. (10.1029/2018RG000626)
- Domènech, G. et al., 2019. Modelling the role of material depletion, grain coarsening and revegetation in debris flow occurrences after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Engineering Geology 250 , pp.34-44. (10.1016/j.enggeo.2019.01.010)
- Fan, X. et al., 2018. Spatio-temporal evolution of mass wasting after the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake revealed by a detailed multi-temporal inventory. Landslides 15 (12), pp.2325-2341. (10.1007/s10346-018-1054-5)
- Grieve, S. W. D. et al., 2018. Controls on zero order basin morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 123 (12), pp.3269-3291. (10.1029/2017JF004453)
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2018. Can riparian forest buffers increase yields from oil palm plantations?. Earth's Future 6 (8), pp.1082-1096. (10.1029/2018EF000874)
- Hales, T. 2018. Modelling biome-scale root reinforcement and slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43 (10), pp.2157-2166. (10.1002/esp.4381)
- Horton, A. J. et al. 2017. Modification of river meandering by tropical deforestation. Geology 45 (6), pp.511-514. (10.1130/G38740.1)
- Hales, T. and Miniat, C. F. 2017. Soil moisture causes dynamic adjustments to root reinforcement that reduce slope stability. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (5), pp.803-813. (10.1002/esp.4039)
- Parker, R. N. et al. 2016. Colluvium supply in humid regions limits the frequency of storm-triggered landslides. Scientific Reports 6 34438. (10.1038/srep34438)
- Marshall, J. A. et al., 2015. Frost for the trees: Did climate increase erosion in unglaciated landscapes during the late Pleistocene?. Science Advances 1 (10) e1500715. (10.1126/sciadv.1500715)
- Hwang, T. et al., 2015. Simulating vegetation controls on hurricane-induced shallow landslides with a distributed ecohydrological model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120 (2), pp.361-378. (10.1002/2014JG002824)
- Dieras, P. , Constantine, J. A. and Hales, T. 2013. The role of oxbow lakes in the off-channel storage of bed material along the Ain River, France. Geomorphology 188 , pp.110-119. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.12.024)
- Hales, T. et al. 2013. Assessing the accuracy of simple field based root strength measurements. Plant and Soil 372 (1-2), pp.553-565. (10.1007/s11104-013-1765-2)
- Band, L. E. et al., 2012. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: mapping and modeling ecohydrological controls of landslides. Geomorphology 137 (1), pp.159-167. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.025)
- Hales, T. , Scharer, K. M. and Wooten, R. M. 2011. Southern Appalachian hillslope erosion rates measured by soil and detrital radiocarbon in hollows. Geomorphology (10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.030)
- Hales, T. et al. 2009. Topographic and ecologic controls on root reinforcement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 114 F03013. (10.1029/2008JF001168)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2009. A frost "buzzsaw" mechanism for erosion of the eastern Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geomorphology 107 (3-4), pp.241-253. (10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.12.012)
- Hwang, T. , Band, L. and Hales, T. 2009. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: extending optimality theory from plot to catchment. Water Resources Research 45 (11), pp.1-20. (10.1029/2009WR007775)
- Hales, T. and Cashman, K. V. 2008. Simulating social and political influences on hazard analysis through a classroom role playing exercise. Journal of Geoscience Education 56 (1), pp.54-60.
- Almond, P. , Roering, J. J. and Hales, T. 2007. Using soil residence time to delineate spatial and temporal patterns of transient landscape response. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 112 (f3), pp.1-19. (10.1029/2006JF000568)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2007. Climatic controls on frost cracking and implications for the evolution of bedrock landscapes. Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (f2), pp.1-14. (10.1029/2006JF000616)
- Hales, T. et al. 2005. A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon. Nature 438 (7069), pp.842-845. (10.1038/nature04313)
- Hales, T. and Roering, J. J. 2005. Climate controlled variations in scree production, Southern Alps, New Zealand. Geology 33 (9), pp.701-704. (10.1130/G21528.1)
Book sections
- Roering, J. and Hales, T. 2022. Changing Hillslopes: Evolution and Inheritance; Inheritance and Evolution of Slopes. In: Schroder, J. F. ed. Treatise on Geomorphology 2nd ed.. , pp.184-205. (10.1016/B978-0-12-818234-5.01012-9)
- Wooten, R. M. et al., 2016. Frequency and magnitude of selected historical landslide events in the Southern Appalachian Highlands of North Carolina and Virginia: relationships to rainfall, geological and ecohydrological controls and effects. In: Greenburg, C. H. and Collins, B. S. eds. Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests USA. Managing Forest Ecosystems Vol. 32.Springer
- Roering, J. J. and Hales, T. C. 2013. 7.29 Changing Hillslopes: Evolution and Inheritance; Inheritance and Evolution of Slopes. In: Shroder, J. F. , Stoffel, M. and Marston, R. A. eds. Mountain and Hillslope Geomorphology. Treatise on Geomorphology Vol. 7.Amsterdam: Elsevier. , pp.284-305. (10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00178-0)
Conferences
- Cere, G. et al. 2018. Multi-objective consideration of earthquake resilience in the built environment: The case of Wenchuan earthquake. Presented at: International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) Funchal, Portugal 27-29 Jun 2017. Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation. IEEE. , pp.513-520. (10.1109/ICE.2017.8279929)
- Cere, G. et al. 2017. Multi-objective consideration of earthquake resilience in the built environment: the case of Wenchuan earthquake. Presented at: 2017 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC) Madeira, Portugal 26-30 June 2017.
Monographs
- 2021. Sustainable Places Research Institute: Our legacy. Project Report.[Online].Cardiff: Sustainable Places Research Institute. Available at: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/sustainable-places/research/our-legacy.
Research
My research focuses on understanding what processes act on the hillslopes between river channels and their rates. I am interested in how changes to Earth's climate and vegetation control these processes and the hazards they pose to humans. I pose questions about the role of frost in the development of mountain landscapes and how humans, vegetation, and climate interact to create landslide hazards.
Teaching
I teach students how the landscapes on which humans live are formed and how they change through time. My classes in the first and third year focus on understanding the fluvial, glacial, and hillslope processes that shape landscapes. We utilise GIS, computer models, and field-based observations to test hypotheses about how Earth's surface changes through time. In the field, I teach students about the development of sedimentary basins in Dorset, Quaternary landscapes in the Brecon Beacons, and the development of geohazards in Tenerife.
Biography
- Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2007-present)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow-Department of Geography, University of North Carolina (2007)
- PhD-Department of Geosciences, University of Oregon (2006)
- BSc (Hons) Geological Sciences-University of Canterbury (2000)
Professional memberships
- American Geophysical Union
- European Geosciences Union
- British Society for Geomorphology
