Professor Helen Rendell
B.Sc. (Nottingham), Ph.D. (University College London)
Professor of Physical Geography
email: H.M.Rendell@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 223729
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
Room NN.1.08, Martin Hall building, East Park
Career
University of Sussex, 1975 -1999
1975 Lecturer in Physical Geography
1989 Senior Lecturer
1990 Reader
1994 Personal Chair in Physical Geography
1999 Professor of Physical Geography, Loughborough University
Research Interests
(1) Quaternary environmental change, luminescence applications and science-based archaeology
Quaternary environmental change focusing on the nature and timing of change with particular focus on aeolian activity (sand dune building, dust (loess) deposition). I have worked on both the development and the application of luminescence techniques (TL, OSL, IRSL) to sediments. Luminescence techniques have, for example, enabled us to resolve the chronology of palaeolithic sites in Pakistan, Late Quaternary fluvial-aeolian interactions in the western USA, and the interaction between NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) driven storminess and coastal sand movement and dune-building in Portugal. Recent projects include AHRC-funded investigations of the Roman archaeology and geomorphology of the Laurentine Shore (Rome's Maritime Facade), and a British Academy small grant: ‘This restless enemy of all fertility’: storms, sand invasion and coastal management strategies in Britain and Ireland 1700-1950.
(2) Land degradation and extreme events in the Mediterranean
This work focuses on contemporary geomorphic processes of soil erosion and landsliding and the relationship between extreme rainfall events and the land surface responses over the period of meteorological records for southern and central Italy. Current work has linked the patterns of erosion and landsliding to changes in the NAO over the period 1951-2000, while the detailed investigation of badland processes and landforms has informed work on longer-term landscape evolution.
Recent Publications
Clarke M.L. and Rendell, H.M. (2010). Climate-driven decrease in erosion in extant Mediterranean badlands. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 35, 1281–1288.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M. (2010). Atlantic storminess and historical sand drift in Western Europe: implications for future management of coastal dunes. Journal of Coastal Conservation: Planning and Management. Published Online First™, 14 April 2010
Brown, T., Budd, L.C.S., Bell, M. and Rendell, H.M. (2010). The local impact of global climate change: Reporting on landscape transformation and threatened identity in the English regional newspaper press. Public Understanding of Science first published on April 13, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0963662510361416
Bicket, A.R., Rendell, H.M., Claridge, A., Rose, P., Andrews, J. & Brown, F.S.J. (2009). A multiscale geoarchaeological approach from the Laurentine Shore (Castelporziona, Lazio, Italy). Géomorphologie: relief, processus, environnement. 4, 257-270.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M., (2009). The impact of North Atlantic storminess on western European coasts: a review. Quaternary International, 95(1-2), 31-41.
Howard, L.C., Wood, P.J. , Greenwood, M.T. and Rendell, H.M. (2009). Reconstructing riverine paleo-flow regimes using subfossil insects (Coleoptera and Trichoptera): the application of the LIFE methodology to paleochannel sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 42, 453-466.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M., (2008). Climate, extreme events and land degradation: current patterns and future prospects for Kazakhstan. In: CESME, R.K., ed. ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЪІ УСТОЙЧИВОГО РАЗВИТИЯ: ТЕОРИЯ И ПРАКТИКА. JSC Institute of Geography, Almaty, pp. 506-510
Rendell, H.M., Claridge, A.J. and Clarke, M.L., (2007). Late Holocene Mediterranean coastal change along the Tiber Delta and Roman occupation of the Laurentine shore, central Italy. Quaternary Geochronology, 2(1-4), 83-88.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M., (2007). Climate, extreme events and land degradation. In: SIVAKUMAR, M.V.K., NDIANG'UI, N., eds. Climate and Land Degradation. Berlin: Springer, pp. 135-150
Clarke, M.L. & Rendell, H.M. (2006) The effects of storminess, sand supply and the North Atlantic Oscillation on sand invasion and coastal dune accretion in western Portugal. The Holocene, 16 (3), 341-355.
Haour, A., Winton, V., Idé, O., Rendell, H.M. & Clarke, M.L. (2006) The Project SAHEL 2004: An archaeological sequence in the Parc W., Niger. Journal of African Archaeology, 4(2), 299-315.
Clarke, M. L. and Rendell, H. M., (2006) Hindcasting extreme events: the occurrence and expression of damaging floods and landslides in Southern Italy. Land Degradation and Development, 17(4), 365-380.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M., (2006). Process-form relationships in southern Italian badlands: erosion rates and implications for landform evolution. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 31(1), 15-29.
Clarke, M.L. and Rendell, H.M., (2006). Effects of storminess, sand supply and the North Atlantic Oscillation on sand invasion and coastal dune accretion in Western Portugal. The Holocene, 16(3), 341-355.
Teaching Interests
First Year: Earth System Science
Second Year: Exploring the Ice Ages
Final Year: Quaternary Environments
M.Sc. Environmental Monitoring for Management: Research Design
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