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Professor Janet Hooke
Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 3HE
Telephone: +44 (0)23 9284 2482
Fax: +44 (0)23 9284 2512
E-mail: janet.hooke@port.ac.uk
Position
Professor of Physical Geography
Research Interests
- Fluvial geomorphology - analysis and modelling of changes in channel
patterns; river meanders; channel processes and dynamics, bank erosion
and bar sedimentation; sediment budgets; impact of climate variations
and of flood events; historical and Holocene changes and chronology;
channel and floodplain management; vegetation and fluvial processes.
- Coastal geomorphology - historical changes, processes and sediment
dynamics; changes in beach and cliff morphology; sediment budgets and
sediment cells.
- Environmental management and applied geomorphology - river and catchment
management; shoreline management; impacts of climate and land use change;
conservation strategies; science/policy interface.
Profile
- Graduate of Bristol University
- PhD from Exeter University
- On staff at Portsmouth University since 1981. Reader in 1992 and Professor
since 1996.
- Leader of Environment
Research Group, Portsmouth
- Director of RACER (River and Coastal Environments Research)
- British Geomorphological Research Group, Chair (succession)
1998-2001
- Member of the GeoConservation Commission of The Geological Society
Projects
- RECONDES -
Conditions for Restoration and Mitigation of Desertified Areas Using Vegetation.
This is a new EU funded 6th Framework project within the Sustainable Development,
Global Change and Ecosystems programme area.
The focus of RECONDES is to address the mitigation of desertification
processes by the means of innovative techniques using vegetation in
specific landscape configurations prone to severe degradation processes.
Its major objective is to produce practical guidelines on the conditions
for use of vegetation in areas vulnerable to desertification, taking
into account spatial variability in geomorphological and human-driven
processes related to degradation and desertification. The project comprises
partners from UK, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. Janet Hooke
is the Coordinator of the project.
For further details, please go to the RECONDES
web page.
- MEDALUS - EU funded project on Mediterranean Desertification
and Land Use. Since 1996 our work on this project has been mainly focussed
on development of a model to simulate channel changes and impacts of
climate and land use on ephemeral channels. The research has been based
on channels in SE Spain and has entailed measurements of impacts of
floods and of interaction of vegetation and channel processes. Nine
monitoring sites have been established. The project involves use of
GIS and photogrammetry for data input and output. Other research in
semi-arid areas has included work on the Gila River, Arizona and at
Walnut Gulch instrumented catchment, Arizona.
- River Dynamics - an ongoing project involving measurement and
analysis of channel changes in UK. Sections of the Rivers Dane and Bollin
in NW England have been monitored for 20 years. Processes of bank erosion,
bar sedimentation, meander change and cutoffs have been analysed. Current
work is focussing on impact of events and climate fluctuations and on
pool-riffle characteristics. A major interest is the construction of
sediment budgets for meandering rivers and a recent PhD project has
entailed use of tracers and of terrestrial photogrammetry.
- Bank Erosion - Member of the Bank Erosion Research Group,
an informal UK group established to cooperate on research on aspects
of bank erosion and to disseminate information on this topic
- Environmental Modelling Project to develop 'top-down' and geomorphological
approaches to environmental modelling and simulation and to develop
and enhance techniques for data linkage, representation and analysis
via GIS. Various software tools and applications related to coasts and
rivers are being tested in the Department and other simulation models
and algorithms are being developed by our research team
- Shingle Beach Project - Funded by MAFF, this was a three-year
collaborative project between Portsmouth (Geography), Southampton (Oceanography),
Plymouth (Civil Engineering), and Brighton (Civil Engineering) Universities,
and managed by HR Wallingford. The project examined process mechanisms,
sediment transport and morphological dynamics of shingle beaches on
timescales ranging from within an event to decades. It has involved
intensive tracer experiments at Shoreham and longer-term monitoring
at several south coast beaches.
- Shoreline Management in Indonesia - This project was undertaken
by Idwan Suhardi for his PhD on the application of geomorphology and
the concept of sediment cells to shoreline management in Indonesia.
The research is now being applied to coastal management in Indonesia.
Selected Recent Publications
Potential PhD Topics
- Sediment dynamics in ephemeral channels
- Processes and mechanisms of bank erosion and of meander change
- Impact of climate variations on channel morphology
- Simulation and modelling of channel changes and of meander movement
- Analysis of historical changes of river channels
- Impacts of flood events on river channels
- Measurement and calculation of sediment budgets in streams
- Case sediment connectivity
- Interactions of vegetation and fluvial processes
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