Project description
Desert dunes are being variously impacted by climate change, increasing aridity, and human impacts. We still only have a limited understanding of desert dune evolution and dynamics, impacts of climate change and fires. Potential projects include dating of dune evolution, determining rates of dune movement and relationships to winds and climate, impacts of fires on dune mobility, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of dune dynamics, historical analyses of dunefield and vegetation changes following colonisation and land clearing. I conduct research in China, Australia, & W. Sahara.
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