Dr Richard Streeter
Senior Lecturer
Biography
Dr Richard Streeter joined the School in 2013. Prior to that he undertook his undergraduate (2007) and PhD degree (2011) at the University of Edinburgh.
Teaching
- GG4304 Advanced analysis in Physical Geography
- GG4251 Volcanic Ash: Dispersal, Impact and Applications
- Contributor to GG1002
- Dissertation supervision
Research areas
I am a geographer with a broad research interest in three main topics – volcanic ash (tephra); human-environment interactions over the Holocene, and land-degradation over decades-centuries. My study areas include Iceland, the United States, Chile, Finland, and Scotland.
- My research on volcanic ash (tephra) initially focussed on using tephrochronology to provide chronological control for past environmental change. More recently, I have become interested in how the properties of tephra layers (e.g. thickness, variability, grain-size) may be modified by their interaction with earth surface processes, vegetation cover and lake processes, both during and after fallout. This information will improve our ability to understand volcanic hazards, as well as potentially providing us information on the nature of the surface on which tephra was deposited.
- Human-environment interactions over the Holocene. Much of my work in this area has been centred on reconstructing past-environmental change (particularly rates of soil erosion) in Iceland, and using this information to improve our understanding of the long-term sustainability of settlement in the North Atlantic.
- Erosion patterns in high-latitude rangeland grazing areas. I have used UAVs to create high-resolution maps of land surface cover in Iceland. This has allowed the quantification of the spatial structure of erosion patches, as well as the development of spatial models of soil erosion. The overall aim is an improved understanding of the interaction of geomorphological and biological processes which determine the progression of erosion, and better models of how high-latitude landscapes will respond to global change.
PhD supervision
- Ella Wood
- Yajie Zhu
- Celeste Smith
- Lucy Robinson
Selected publications
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Open access
Arctic tundra shrubification can obscure increasing levels of soil erosion in NDVI assessments of land cover derived from satellite imagery
Kodl, G., Streeter, R. T., Cutler, N. & Bolch, T., 1 Feb 2024, In: Remote Sensing of Environment. 301, 17 p., 113935.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Variable preservation of the 1991 Hudson tephra in small lakes and on land
Streeter, R. T., Cutler, N., Lawson, I. T., Hutchison, W., Dominguez, L. & Hiles, W., 3 Oct 2024, In: Frontiers in Earth Science. 12, 20 p., 1433960.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Soil moisture, stressed vegetation and the spatial structure of soil erosion in a high latitude rangeland
Cutler, N. A., Kodl, G., Streeter, R. T., Thompson, P. I. J. & Dugmore, A. J., 3 Jul 2023, In: European Journal of Soil Science. 74, 4, 15 p., e13393.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The influence of burial rate on variability in tephra thickness and grain size distribution in Iceland
Thompson, P. I. J., Dugmore, A. J., Newton, A. J., Cutler, N. A. & Streeter, R. T., 15 May 2023, In: Catena. 225, 13 p., 107025.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Simulating the extent and depth of spring snow cover for medieval settlements in Iceland and Greenland
Comeau, L. E. L., Streeter, R. T. & Madsen, C. K., Oct 2022, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 45, 15 p., 103549.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
The influence of vegetation cover on the grain-size distributions and thicknesses of two Icelandic tephra layers
Morison, C. & Streeter, R., 4 Aug 2022, In: Volcanica. 5, 2, p. 227-248Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
How do the grain size characteristics of a tephra deposit change over time?
Cutler, N., Streeter, R. T., Dugmore, A. & Sear, E. R., 12 Jun 2021, In: Bulletin of Volcanology. 83, 7, 7 p., 45.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Late survival of woodland contrasts with rapid limnological changes following settlement at Kalmanstjörn, Mývatnssveit, northeast Iceland
Hiles, W., Lawson, I. T., Roucoux, K. & Streeter, R. T., 6 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Boreas. Early View, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Variations in tephra stratigraphy created by small-scale surface features in sub-polar landscapes
Thompson, P. I. J., Dugmore, A. J., Newton, A. J., Streeter, R. T. & Cutler, N. A., 25 Sept 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Boreas. Early View, 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Assessing spatial patterns of soil erosion in a high-latitude rangeland
Streeter, R. T. & Cutler, N., 10 Mar 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Land Degradation & Development. Early ViewResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review