Chris Parker
Senior Lecturer : Physical Geography
FET - Geography and Environmental Management
University of West of England
United Kingdom
Biography
Before my appointment at UWE, Bristol I completed a BSc degree in geography at the University of Nottingham before undertaking a PhD at the same institution. My PhD thesis aimed to develop and evaluate a method for representing river catchment sediment dynamics. Alongside my PhD research I gained valuable experience working as: a scientist for Royal Haskoning’s River and Coastal Management Division; a researcher for the U.S. National Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi; and a consultant for Nottingham University Consultants Limited. In January 2010 I started my role as a lecturer in physical geography in UWE, Bristol's Department of Geography and Environmental Management. Since then I have become a senior lecturer and programme manager of the BSc Geography and Environmental Management degree. My research is driven by a belief that the academic community has an important role to play in shaping the way society deals with our dynamic environment. Compliance with new legislation such as the European Water Framework Directive and Floods Directive exerts multiple demands on the research community, including improving scientific understanding within the field of applied fluvial geomorphology. My principal research interests lie within applied fluvial geomorphology.
Research Interest
Geography and Environmental Management
Publications
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Parker C, Clifford NJ, Thorne CR. Automatic delineation of functional river reach boundaries for river research and applications. River research and applications. 2012 Dec 1;28(10):1708-25.
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Jones N, Parker C. Water quality in two Icelandic rivers: the influence of impoundment, agriculture, glaciation and permafrost. Hydrology Research. 2015 Jun 1;46(3):429-45.
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Parker C, Thorne CR, Clifford NJ. Development of ST: REAM: a reachâ€based stream power balance approach for predicting alluvial river channel adjustment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2015 Mar 15;40(3):403-13.
