Summary
Summary
Landscape sensitivity to past and future climate: solving the intermittency puzzle.
I am a PhD researcher focusing on the sensitivity of rivers and landscapes to climate change in the past, present and future. In particular, I am using the concept of intermittency to investigate patterns in discharge of material through sediment routing systems. My research involves field-based quantitative palaeohydrology and numerical modeling, and I am currently working on the large-scale source-to-sink dynamics of the Southern Pyrenean Foreland during the Eocene hothouse.
Teaching
I have been a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) on a range of field and classroom-based modules, and I was awarded GTA of the year in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering for 2023.
Publications
Journals
McLeod J, Whittaker AC, Bell RE, et al., 2024, Landscapes on the edge: river intermittency in a warming world, Geology, ISSN:1943-2682
McLeod J, Wood J, Lyster S, et al., 2023, Quantitative constraints on flood variability in the rock record, Nature Communications, Vol:14, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-12
Wood J, McLeod JS, Lyster SJ, et al., 2022, Rivers of the Variscan Foreland: fluvial morphodynamics in the Pennant Formation of South Wales, UK, Journal of the Geological Society, ISSN:0016-7649