Dr Liam Reinhardt
Senior Lecturer
Liam.Reinhardt@exeter.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1326 371868
Peter Lanyon A084
Peter Lanyon Building, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK
Overview
My research focuses on landscape scale responses to environmental change over a wide range of time scales. This research encompasses topics as diverse as the growth of mountains ranges over millions of years and late Holocene catchment response to climate change or large-scale mining activities. Much of my current research hinges on the realisation that life and landscape are inextricably linked though feedbacks across a range of scales. The landscape in which most of us live arose not through the incremental working of abiotic physical processes but through the interaction and modification of these processes by ‘life’, be it human or otherwise.
Qualifications
BSc (UCC, Ireland),
PhD (Glasgow, Scotland)
Research group links
Research
Research interests
My research interests lie in the broad field of landscape response to perturbations over a wide range of time scales. My research encompasses topics as diverse as the growth of mountains ranges over millions of years and late Holocene catchment response to a) storm track changes linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation, and b) land use change in French Alps. I am very interested in the theory of complexity science and how it might inform prediction of landscape responses to perturbations. Methodologically, I have applied a wide range of field based techniques such as cosmogenic nuclide erosion rate estimation and optically stimulated luminescence depositional age measurement together with advanced statistical modelling to investigate landscape development.
Research projects
Much of my current research hinges on the realisation that life and landscape are inextricably linked though feedbacks across a range of scales. The landscape in which most of us live arose not through the incremental working of abiotic physical processes but through the interaction and modification of these processes by ‘life’, be it human or otherwise. I am currently leading a project that aims to place human activities such as mining and agriculture into the geomorphic paradigm of process and form. If successful this project will provide a framework for understanding and predicting landscape development in response to land use change over decades to centauries.
Research networks
Member of NSF funded LIFE (Linked Institutions for Future Earth) with a focus on Earth surface system vulnerability
Contributed to two White paper submissions to the National Research Council on the future of Earth Surface studies in the USA.
Publications
Journal articles
Conferences
Teaching
I am the programme director of the BSc and MSci in Environmental Science and a Senior fellow in the Higher Education AcademyModules
2023/24
- GEO2440 - Geographical Information Science and Systems
- GEO2444 - Landscape Evolution
- GEOM052 - Academic Research Project
Office Hours:
Term 2 2024
My weekly open office hours are Mondays 3.30-4.30 pm and Fridays 2-3 pm. I have no open office hours during reading week 6 but I am happy to hold a Teams meeting as needed.
During these hours please feel free to drop by my office without making an appoinment: if you think the issue will take a long time then please email (liam.reinhardt@exeter.ac.uk) so I can block out more of the hour for you. If you prefer to meet on Teams please tell me at least one day in advance so i can setup the meeting.