Jamie Woodward

Editor of The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean (2009) published by Oxford University Press.

Due out in early 2010:  Woodward, J.C., Brewer, P.A., Macklin, M.G. and Tooth, S. (2010) (Editors) Advances in Palaeoflood Science. Global and Planetary Change (Special Issue), (in press).

Invited keynote speaker at the INQUA conference on Global Continental Palaeohydrology (GLOCOPH) in Israel, October 25 to November 3rd 2009. View the programme.

Consultant for the BBC series Rivers (2009) with Griff Rhys Jones.

Invited speaker at the 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium on Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History: Geoarchaeology, Palaeohydrology, and Adjustment to Environmental Change held in Austin, Texas in October 2008. Published in a special issue of Geomorphology.

October 2008 to summer 2011: Physical Geography external examiner for the Part II Examination in the Geographical Tripos at the University of Cambridge.

October 2008 to summer 2011: External examiner for the MSc programme in Landscape, Heritage and Environment in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology at Queen’s University Belfast.

May 2007 to present: Co-Editor of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. View the latest issue of Geoarchaeology.

Co-organiser of the 4th International Palaeoflood Workshop: Crete 2007.
Tooth, S. and Woodward, J.C. (2007) (Editors) Programme and Abstracts for the 4th International Palaeoflood Workshop (PDF, 590KB), Crete, 24th-30th June, 2007.

May 2001 to present: Journal of the Geological Society of London.
Editor for geomorphology and Quaternary environmental change and member of the editorial board.

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers).

I am a geomorphologist and geoarchaeologist with particular interests in the nature and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean and the Nile basin. A good deal of my work takes place in close collaboration with archaeologists and I am interested in the theoretical and practical interface between geography, geoscience and archaeology.

My PhD formed part of the Klithi Project in Epirus, Northwest Greece, directed by Geoff Bailey. A good deal of my PhD research has been published in five chapters in the seminal Klithi project monographs.

The Mediterranean landscape contains some of the best records of long-term change available anywhere on Earth. In addition, the richness of the cultural records allows human-environment interactions to be studied in unusual detail and often over very long timescales.

I work in a range of geomorphological environments in the Mediterranean and I am especially interested in developing geochronologies (using, for example, OSL, radiocarbon and uranium series techniques) for sedimentary archives of change across a range of timescales. Another key interest involves the development of sediment sourcing methods to improve our understanding of past geomorphological systems at a range of spatial scales. This involves mega-scale work in the Nile basin (>3 million km 2 ) using strontium isotopes as well as smaller scale tracing studies including, for example, work in the Voidomatis River basin in NW Greece (<400 km 2 ) where XRF has been used to identify the source of Pleistocene slackwater sediments to considerably enhance our understanding of the palaeoflood record. Some outcomes of this work are presented in the books and papers listed below.

I would be very happy to discuss potential PhD projects in the general area of Mediterranean Quaternary environments and geoarchaeology. The following is a list of themes that relate to ongoing projects in various parts of the Mediterranean including Greece, Sicily and Montenegro. Each theme could be developed into a more focused PhD proposal:

• River basin response to Pleistocene/Holocene environmental change.
• Sedimentation dynamics in rockshelters and caves.
• Developing U-series geochronologies for Pleistocene alluvium in karst terrains.
• Pleistocene glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains.
• Mediterranean flood histories.
• Mediterranean records of Saharan dust dynamics.
• Reservoir sediment records and catchment dynamics.

There are strong links between my research and teaching. I convene the following courses:

• GEOG 10401: Environmental Processes and Change: The Global System.
• GEOG 20291: Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology.
• GEOG 30130: Quaternary Geography: Global and Mediterranean Perspectives.
• GEOG 30150: Geography and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Issues and Controversies.

Edited volumes

Woodward, J.C. (2009) (Editor) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

Woodward, J.C. and Goldberg, P. (2001a) (Editors) Rockshelter Sediment Records and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region: Part 1. Special Issue of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 16 (4), 323-463 (141 pp.).

Woodward, J.C. and Goldberg, P. (2001b) (Editors) Rockshelter Sediment Records and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Region: Part 2. Special Issue of Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 16 (5), 465-631 (167 pp.).

Maddy, D.R., Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (Editors) (2001) River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. 520 pp. Rotterdam, Balkema.

Lewin, J., Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (Editors) (1995) Mediterranean Quaternary River Environments. 292 pp. Rotterdam, Balkema.

Journal papers and book chapters

Woodward, J.C. and Huckleberry, G. (2010) Editorial Introduction: 25 Years of Geoarchaeology. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 25, 1–5.

Woodward, J.C., Tooth, S., Brewer, P.A. and Macklin, M.G. (2010) The 4th International Palaeoflood Workshop and trends in palaeoflood science. Global and Planetary Change (in press).

Williams, M.A.J., Williams, F.M., Duller, G.A.T., Munro, R.N., El Tom, O.A.M., Barrows, T.T., Macklin, M.G., Woodward, J.C., Talbot, M.R., Haberlah, D. and Fluin, J. (2010) Late Quaternary floods and droughts in the Nile Valley, Sudan: New evidence from optically stimulated luminescence and AMS radiocarbon dating. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).

Woodward, J.C. (2009) Quaternary geography and the human past. In: N. Castree, D. Demeritt, D. M. Liverman and B.L. Rhoads (eds), A Companion to Environmental Geography. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 198-222.

Thornes, J.B., Lopez-Bermudez, F. and Woodward, J.C. (2009) Hydrology, river regimes and sediment yield. In: J.C. Woodward (Editor) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 229-253.

Lewin, J. and Woodward, J.C. (2009) Karst geomorphology and environmental change. In: J.C. Woodward (Editor) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 287-317.

Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (2009) River systems and environmental change. In: J.C. Woodward (Editor) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 319-35.

Hughes P.D., and Woodward, J.C. (2009) Glacial and periglacial environments. In: J.C. Woodward (Editor) The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 353-383.

Hughes, P.D and Woodward, J.C. (2008) Timing of glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains during the last cold stage. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23, 575-588.

Woodward, J.C., Hamlin, R.H.B., Macklin, M.G., Hughes, P.D. & Lewin, J. (2008) Glacial activity and catchment dynamics in northwest Greece: Long-term river behaviour and the slackwater sediment record for the last glacial to interglacial transition. Geomorphology 101, 44-67.

Woodward, J.C., Macklin, M.G., Krom, M.D. and Williams, M.A.J. (2007) The Nile: Evolution, Quaternary river environments and material fluxes. In: A. Gupta (Editor) Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management. Chichester, John Wiley and Sons, 261-292.

Woodward, J.C. and Walling, D.E. (2007) Composite suspended sediment particles in river systems: their incidence, dynamics and physical characteristics. Hydrological Processes, 21, 3601-3614.

Hughes, P.D., Woodward, J.C. and Gibbard, P.L. (2007) Middle Pleistocene cold stage climates in the Mediterranean: new evidence from the glacial record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253, 50-56.

Hughes, P.D., Gibbard, P.L. and Woodward, J.C. (2007) Geological controls on Pleistocene glaciation and cirque form in Greece. Geomorphology, 88, 242-253.

Hughes, P.D., Woodward, J.C., Gibbard, P.L., Macklin, M.G., Gilmour, M.A. and Smith, G.R. (2006) The glacial history of the Pindus Mountains, Greece. Journal of Geology, 114, 413-434.

Hughes, P.D., Woodward J.C. and Gibbard, P.L. (2006). The last glaciers of Greece. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 50, 37-61.

Hughes, P.D., Woodward, J.C. and Gibbard, P.L. (2006) Late Pleistocene glaciers and climate in the Mediterranean region. Global and Planetary Change, 46, 88-98.

Hughes, P.D., Woodward, J.C. and Gibbard, P.L. (2006) Glacial history of the Mediterranean mountains. Progress in Physical Geography, 30, 334-364.

Hughes, P.D., Gibbard, P.L. and Woodward, J.C. (2006) Middle Pleistocene glacier behaviour in the Mediterranean: sedimentological evidence from the Pindus Mountains, Greece. Journal of the Geological Society, 163, 857-867.

Hughes, P.D., Gibbard, P.L. and Woodward, J.C. (2005) Quaternary glacial records in mountain regions: a formal stratigraphical approach. Episodes: Journal of International Geoscience, 28, 85-92.

Woodward, J.C., Macklin, M.G. and Smith, G.R. (2004) Pleistocene glaciation in the mountains of Greece. In: J. Ehlers and P.L. Gibbard (Editors) Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology: Part 1. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 155-173.

Hughes, P.D., Gibbard, P.L. and Woodward, J.C. (2004) Quaternary glaciation in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa. In: J. Ehlers and P.L. Gibbard (Editors) Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology: Part 3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 255-260.

Stanley, D-J., Krom, M.D., Cliff, R.A. and Woodward, J.C. (2003) Nile flow failure at the end of the Old Kingdom Egypt: strontium isotopic and petrologic evidence. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 18, 395-402.

Woodward, J.C. (2003) Geoarchaeology. In: H. Viles and A. Rogers (Editors) The Student's Companion to Geography (Second Edition). Oxford, Blackwell, 34-42.

Hughes, P.D., Gibbard, P.L. and Woodward, J.C. (2003) Relict rockglaciers as indicators of Mediterranean palaeoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum (Late Würmian) of Northwest Greece. Journal of Quaternary Science, 18, 431-440.

Woodward, J.C., Porter, P.R., Lowe, A.T., Walling, D.E. and Evans, A.J. (2002) Composite suspended sediment particles and flocculation in glacial meltwaters: preliminary evidence from Alpine and Himalayan basins. Hydrological Processes, 16, 1735-1744.

Krom, M.D., Stanley, J.D., Cliff, R.A and Woodward, J.C. (2002) River Nile sediment fluctuations over the past 7000 years and their key role in sapropel development. Geology, 30, 71-74.

Macklin, M.G., Fuller, I.C., Lewin, J., Maas, G.S., Passmore, D.G., Rose, J., Woodward, J.C., Black, S., Hamlin, R.H.B. and Rowan, J.S. (2002) Correlation of Late and Middle Pleistocene fluvial sequences in the Mediterranean and their relationship to climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 1633-1644.

Welsby, D.A., Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (2002) Human responses to Holocene environmental changes in the Northern Dongola Reach of the Nile, Sudan. In: Renée Friedman (Editor): Egypt and Nubia: Gifts of the Desert. The British Museum Press, London, pp. 28-38.

Woodward, J.C. and Goldberg, P. (2001a) The sedimentary records in Mediterranean rockshelters and caves: archives of environmental change. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 16, 327-354.

Woodward, J.C. and Goldberg, P. (2001b) Editorial Introduction. In: J.C. Woodward and P. Goldberg (Editors): Rockshelter sediment records and environmental change in the Mediterranean region: Part 1. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal (Special Issue), 16, 323-325.

Woodward, J.C., Hamlin, R.H.B., Macklin, M.G., Karkanas, P. and Kotjabopoulou, E. (2001) Quantitative sourcing of slackwater deposits at Boila Rockshelter: A record of Lateglacial flooding and Palaeolithic settlement in the Pindus Mountains, Northwest Greece. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 16, 501-536.

Woodward, J.C. and Goldberg, P. (2001c) Editorial Introduction. In: J.C. Woodward and P. Goldberg (Editors): Rockshelter sediment records and environmental change in the Mediterranean region: Part 2. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal (Special Issue), 16, 465-466.

Maas, G.R, Macklin, M.G., Warburton, J., Woodward, J.C. and Meldrum, E. (2001) A 300-year history of flooding in an Andean Mountain river system: the Rio Alizos, Southern Bolivia. In: D.R.Maddy, M.G. Macklin and J.C. Woodward (Editors): River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 297-323.

Maddy, D., Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (2001) Fluvial archives of environmental change. In: D.R. Maddy, M.G. Macklin and J.C. Woodward (Editors): River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 3-18.

Woodward, J.C., Macklin, M.G. and Welsby, D.A. (2001) The Holocene fluvial sedimentary record and alluvial geoarchaeology in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan. In: D.R. Maddy, M.G. Macklin and J.C. Woodward (Editors): River Basin Sediment Systems: Archives of Environmental Change. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 327-356.

Macklin, M.G. and Woodward, J.C. (2001) Holocene alluvial history and the palaeochannels of the River Nile in the Northern Dongola Reach. In: D.A. Welsby (Editor): Life on the Desert Edge: Seven Thousand Years of Human Settlement in the Northern Dongola Reach, Sudan. Sudan Archaeological Research Society Publication No. 7 (The British Museum Press), London, 7-13.

Macklin, M., Maas, G., Warburton, J., Woodward, J.C., Meldrum, E. and Preston, D. (2001) Una historia de la formación de los paisajes de Tarija. In: S. Beck, N. Paniagua, and D. Preston (Editors) Historia, Ambiente y Sociedad en Tarija, Bolivia. Instituto de Ecología, La Paz, Bolivia, 1-7.

Smith, G.R., Woodward, J.C., Heywood, D.I. and Gibbard, P.L. (2000) Interpreting Pleistocene glacial terrains using SPOT HRV data and fuzzy techniques. Computers and Geosciences, 26, 479-490.

Woodward, J.C. and Bailey, G.N. (2000) Terminal Pleistocene sediment sources and geomorphological processes recorded in rockshelter sequences in northwest Greece. In: I.D.L. Foster (Editor) Tracers in Geomorphology, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 521-551.

Hamlin, R.H.B, Woodward, J.C., Macklin, M.G. and Black, S. (2000) Sediment fingerprinting as a tool for interpreting long-term river activity: The Voidomatis basin, Northwest Greece. In: I.D.L. Foster (Editor) Tracers in Geomorphology, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 473-501.

Walling, D.E. and Woodward, J.C. (2000) Effective particle size characteristics of fluvial suspended sediment transported by lowland British rivers. In: The Role of Erosion and Sediment Transport in Nutrient and Contaminant Transfer. IAHS Publication No. 263, 129-140.

Academic websites of interest

Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology (QEG).