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