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Overview

Stephen Tooth is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research focuses on hydrology, sediment transport processes, soil erosion, flood risk assessment and management, and geological formations.

The scientist has explored key topics in the following areas:

  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Stephen Tooth has published research in various subfields including ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and water science and technology. Their work primarily appears in journals such as Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Scientific Reports, Journal of Hydrology, and Wetlands Ecology and Management.

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • "Identifying threshold responses of Australian dryland rivers to future hydroclimatic change" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Effects of vegetation on bacterial communities, carbon and nitrogen in dryland soil surfaces: implications for shrub encroachment in the southwest Kalahari" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Digital Elevation Models for topographic characterisation and flood flow modelling along low-gradient, terminal dryland rivers: A comparison of spaceborne datasets for the Río Colorado, Bolivia" (2020, Journal of Hydrology)
  • "Visualisation of flooding along an unvegetated, ephemeral river using Google Earth Engine: Implications for assessment of channel-floodplain dynamics in a time of rapid environmental change" (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • "Topographic, Hydraulic, and Vegetative Controls on Bar and Island Development in Mixed Bedrock-Alluvial, Multichanneled, Dryland Rivers" (2020, Water Resources Research)

Frequent collaborators with Stephen Tooth include:

  • Timothy J. Ralph
  • Zacchary Larkin
  • G.A.T. Duller
  • Dov Corenblit
  • Angela M. Gurnell

Their research outputs indicate active engagement in understanding environmental processes related to dryland rivers, soil surface ecology, remote sensing for flood modeling, and landscape dynamics under changing climatic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Process, form and change in dryland rivers: a review of recent research

    Stephen Tooth;Stephen Tooth

  • The Geomorphology of The Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Joanna E. Bullard;David S. G. Thomas

  • Wetlands in drylands: geomorphological and sedimentological characteristics, with emphasis on examples from southern Africa:

    Stephen Tooth;Terence S. McCarthy

  • The role of vegetation in the formation of anabranching channels in an ephemeral river, Northern plains, arid central Australia

    Stephen Tooth;Gerald C. Nanson

  • Assessing the reproducibility and accuracy of optical dating of fluvial deposits

    H. Rodnight;G.A.T. Duller;A.G. Wintle;S. Tooth

  • Stability of the pool-riffle sequence in changing river channels

    K. J. Gregory;A. M. Gurnell;C. T. Hill;S. Tooth

  • Mapping of a major paleodrainage system in eastern Libya using orbital imaging radar: The Kufrah River

    Philippe Paillou;Mathieu Schuster;Stephen Tooth;Tom Farr

  • Geological controls on the formation of alluvial meanders and floodplain wetlands: the example of the Klip River, eastern Free State, South Africa

    S. Tooth;T. S. McCarthy;D. Brandt;P. J. Hancox

  • Comparison of paired quartz OSL and feldspar post-IR IRSL dose distributions in poorly bleached fluvial sediments from South Africa

    D. Colarossi;G.A.T. Duller;H.M. Roberts;S. Tooth

  • Anabranching rivers on the Northern Plains of arid central Australia

    Stephen Tooth;Gerald C. Nanson

  • Downstream changes in dryland river channels: the Northern Plains of arid central Australia

    Stephen Tooth

  • Geological controls on alluvial river behaviour; a comparative study of three rivers on the South African highveld

    S. Tooth;D. Brandt;P.J. Hancox;T.S. McCarthy

  • Splay Formation Along the Lower Reaches of Ephemeral Rivers on the Northern Plains of Arid Central Australia

    S. Tooth

  • Spatial distribution of coarse woody debris dams in the Lymington Basin, Hampshire, UK

    K.J. Gregory;R.J. Davis;S. Tooth

  • The Anthropocene: is there a geomorphological case?

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Richard C. Chiverrell;James Rose

  • Anabranching in mixed bedrock-alluvial rivers: the example of the Orange River above Augrabies Falls, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

    Stephen Tooth;Stephen Tooth;T. S. McCarthy

  • EQUILIBRIUM AND NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS IN DRYLAND RIVERS

    Stephen Tooth;Gerald C. Nanson

  • Chronology and controls of avulsion along a mixed bedrock-alluvial river

    Stephen Tooth;Helena Rodnight;Geoff A.T. Duller;Terence S. McCarthy

  • Optical dating of a scroll-bar sequence on the Klip River, South Africa, to derive the lateral migration rate of a meander bend

    H. Rodnight;G. A.T. Duller;S. Tooth;A. G. Wintle

  • Riparian vegetation and the late Holocene development of an anabranching river: Magela Creek, northern Australia

    Stephen Tooth;John D. Jansen;Gerald C. Nanson;Tom J. Coulthard

Frequent Co-Authors

Terence S. McCarthy
Terence S. McCarthy University of the Witwatersrand
Geoff A.T. Duller
Geoff A.T. Duller Aberystwyth University
Gerald C. Nanson
Gerald C. Nanson University of Wollongong
Kirstie Fryirs
Kirstie Fryirs Macquarie University
Alan D. Howard
Alan D. Howard University of Virginia
Michael Bliss Singer
Michael Bliss Singer Cardiff University
Helen M. Roberts
Helen M. Roberts Aberystwyth University
James R. Zimbelman
James R. Zimbelman Smithsonian Institution
James Rose
James Rose Royal Holloway University of London
Heather Viles
Heather Viles University of Oxford

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