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Professor Robert William DUCK

Emeritus Professor of Environmental Geoscience

University of Dundee

Location

University of Dundee
Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
United Kingdom

Nationality

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Email(s)

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Telephone

+44 7941304478

Profile URL

https://www.oceanexpert.org/expert/uvira

Highest Degree

PhD, BSc

Job Type

Teaching/Education
Research

Subject Area

Marine and Coastal Engineering
Marine Geology, Geophysics
Policy, Law, Economics, Management

Activities

Research into the physical sedimentology of coasts, estuaries and lakes. Topics include: beform type and migration studies using geophysical methods (especially side-scan sonar), coastal erosion, estuarine sediment dynamics, influence of frontal systems on fine sediment partitioning in estuaries, sediemtn sources, transport pathways and sinks in coastal and estuarine environments, lake and estuarine bathymetry, processes of lacustrine sedimentation, catchment sediment yield studies, reservoir sedimentation.

Sea regions of study

North Sea
North Atlantic Ocean

Skills

Sediment transport, coastal erosion, coastal zone management; estuaries, lacustrine sedimentation; environmental geology of coastal and estuarine environments.

Working language(s)

English

Website(s)

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/environment/staff/profile/rob-duck

Created: 1999-11-02 | Last Updated: 2016-07-04 by Robert DUCK


Group(s): GLODIR