Professor Nick Clifford
Professor
Head of Department
Email: nicholas.clifford@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1734
Department of Geography
King's College London
K4.22 Strand Campus
London WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
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river processes and management
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sustainable use of natural systems (especially water)
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geographical and environmental methods, techniques and philosophy
Biography
Nick Clifford is Professor of Physical Geography at King’s College London, and has over 20 years of research experience in fluvial and estuarine geomorphology. He graduated with first class honours and the Philip Lake Prize for physical geography from the University of Cambridge in 1983, and went on to complete a NERC-funded PhD at Cambridge entitled, The formation, nature and maintenance of riffle-pool sequences in gravel-bedded rivers.
Nick has held appointments at Portsmouth, Hull, University College London and Nottingham (as Professor of River Science). He has produced more than 140 scientific works and conference presentations relating to flow processes, sediment transport and bedforms in rivers and river estuaries, including a monograph, Turbulence: perspectives on flow and sediment transport, as well as major reviews of current river rehabilitation practice and commentaries on geographical methods and philosophy. His most recent scholarly project has been an invited review of the historical development of research into river channel forms and process 1890-1965, in The History of the Study of Landforms.
His work has been funded primarily by the Natural Environment Research Council, and he has also worked collaboratively on applied and strategic projects funded by MAFF/Defra, the Environment Agency, Thames Water, English Nature and the Jackson Environment Institute. Nick speaks regularly to school as well as to university and research audiences, covering both his research areas and addressing the current state and future prospects of Geography as an academic discipline.
Nick has been an invited review contributor in both Progress in Physical Geography and Progress in Human Geography; was a long-serving Editorial Board member of the IBG Transactions; and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Hydrology. He is currently Managing Editor of Progress in Physical Geography, and serves on the editorial boards of River Research and Applications and Catena. In late 2005, he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and he is currently Visiting Professor at University College Dublin.
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