Dr Richard Streeter
Lecturer in Environmental Geography
Biography
Dr Richard Streeter joined the School in 2013. Prior to that he undertook his undergraduate (2007) and PhD degree (2011) at the University of Edinburgh.
Teaching
- 4th Year Geography coordinator
- Contributor to GG1002, GG2012, SD5004
- Module co-coordinator GG3274 Socio-ecological systems
- Module coordinator SG4224 Advanced Topics in Physical Sciences
- Contributor to 2ndyear (Fort William) and 3rdyear (Iceland) field courses
- Dissertation supervision
Research areas
I am a geographer with a broad research interest in three main topics ? volcanic ash (tephra); human-environment interactions over the Holocene, and land-degradation over decades-centuries. My study areas include Iceland, the United States, Chile, and Argentina.
- My research on volcanic ash (tephra) initially focussed on using tephrochronology to provide chronological control for past environmental change. More recently, I have become interested in how the properties of tephra layers (e.g. thickness, variability, grain-size) may be modified by their interaction with earth surface processes, vegetation cover and lake processes, both during and after fallout. This information will improve our ability to understand volcanic hazards, as well as potentially providing us information on the nature of the surface on which tephra was deposited.
- Human-environment interactions over the Holocene. Much of my work in this area has been centred on reconstructing past-environmental change (particularly rates of soil erosion) in Iceland, and using this information to improve our understanding of the long-term sustainability of settlement in the North Atlantic.
- Erosion patterns in high-latitude rangeland grazing areas. I have used UAVs to create high-resolution maps of land surface cover in Iceland. This has allowed the quantification of the spatial structure of erosion patches, as well as the development of spatial models of soil erosion. The overall aim is an improved understanding of the interaction of geomorphological and biological processes which determine the progression of erosion, and better models of how high-latitude landscapes will respond to global change.
PhD supervision
- Kirsty Black
- Beate Zein
- Willem Koster
Selected publications
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Assessing spatial patterns of soil erosion in a high-latitude rangeland
Streeter, R. T. & Cutler, N., 10 Mar 2020, In : Land Degradation & Development. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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How does tephra deposit thickness change over time? A calibration exercise based on the 1980 Mount St Helens tephra deposit
Cutler, N. A., Streeter, R. T., Engwell, S. L., Bolton, M. S., Jensen, B. J. L. & Dugmore, A. J., 14 Apr 2020, In : Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 106883.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The interpretative value of transformed tephra sequences
Dugmore, A., Thompson, P., Streeter, R. T., Cutler, N., Newton, A. & Kirkbride, M., 29 Jan 2020, In : Journal of Quaternary Science. 35, 1-2, p. 23-38Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Impacts of ocean acidification on intertidal benthic foraminiferal growth and calcification
Guamán-Guevara, F., Austin, H., Hicks, N., Streeter, R. & Austin, W. E. N., 21 Aug 2019, In : PLoS ONE. 14, 8, 21 p., e0220046.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)
Hambrecht, G., Anderung, C., Brewington, S., Dugmore, A., Edvardsson, R., Feeley, F., Gibbons, K., Harrison, R., Hicks, M., Jackson, R., Ólafsdóttir, G. Á., Rockman, M., Smiarowski, K., Streeter, R., Szabo, V. & McGovern, T., 10 Apr 2018, In : Quaternary International. In pressResearch output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Disequilibrium, adaptation, and the Norse settlement of Greenland
Jackson, R., Arneborg, J., Dugmore, A., Madsen, C., McGovern, T., Smiarowski, K. & Streeter, R., Oct 2018, In : Human Ecology. 46, 5, p. 665-684 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Tephra transformations: variable preservation of tephra layers from two well-studied eruptions
Cutler, N., Streeter, R. T., Marple, J., Shotter, L., Yeoh, J. S. & Dugmore, A., 5 Oct 2018, In : Bulletin of Volcanology. 80, 15 p., 77.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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The application of resilience concepts in palaeoecology
Davies, A. L., Streeter, R. T., Lawson, I. T., Roucoux, K. H. & Hiles, W., 1 Sep 2018, In : The Holocene. 28, 9, p. 1523-1534 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article
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The role of vegetation cover and slope angle in tephra layer preservation and implications for Quaternary tephrostratigraphy
Dugmore, A., Streeter, R. & Cutler, N., 1 Jan 2018, In : Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 489, p. 105-116Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article
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Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security
Nelson, M. C., Ingram, S. E., Dugmore, A. J., Streeter, R. T., Peeples, M. A., McGovern, T. H., Hegmon, M., Arneborg, J., Kintigh, K. W., Brewington, S., Spielmann, K. A., Simpson, I. A., Strawhacker, C., Comeau, L. E. L., Torvinen, A., Madsen, C. K., Hambrecht, G. & Smiarowski, K., 12 Jan 2016, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113, 2, p. 298-303 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article