Geography

Dr Jo Wood

Dr Jo Wood

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

 J.L.Wood@exeter.ac.uk

 Peter Lanyon A073

 

Peter Lanyon Building, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE, UK

Overview

I am a physical geographer who uses a range of techniques from meteorology, remote sensing, GIS, fieldwork and statistical modelling to try to understand geomorphic responses to climate change; including, GLOFs, landsliding and glacial recession in mountain environments.

Qualifications

I have a BSc (Hons) in Geography from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Climate Change and Risk Management from the University of Exeter. I also have a PhD from Exeter University where I was looking at the impacts of climate change on the incidence of landslides in the European Alps.

Following my PhD I went on to work at King's College London as a Teaching Fellow in Phsical Georaphy. Here I gained my PG Certificate Academic Practice in Higher Education and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Acadmey.

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Research

Research interests

My research focusses on geomorphic, geological and cryospheric response to climate and environmental change in high latitude and montane environments; with a focus on landsliding, glaciation and ice sheet dynamics. I specialise in remote sensing, GIS, fieldwork and geostatistics.

Research projects

I am currently working with Dr Bob Brewin on the Sustained Ocean Color Observations using Nanosatellites (SOCON) project. The work (Funded by the Gordon & Betty and Moore Foundadtion) supports a citizen science programme, testing, and evaluating low-cost oceanographic sensors, collecting oceanographic data, and processing satellite ocean colour imagery. We aim to compare remotely sensed imagery (particularly SeaHawk, Sentinel 2 and Landsat 8/9) with citizen science data collected using a mini-Secchi disk, and other measurements collected using low-cost technologies developed within the SOCON project. We will also explore the use of SeaHawk ocean colour imagery for studying coastal hazards (including landslides).

I have recently finished working on the NERC Newton Funded project "Glacial Lakes of Peru" (#projectGLOP). We investigated the evolution of glacial lakes in Peru to understand their relationship with glacier lake outburst floods (GLOFs).

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