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Dr John Jansen
Honorary Research Fellow

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Email: john.jansen@natgeo.su.se
Personal website: http://people.su.se/~jojan/

John  Jansen
 
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Biography

From June 2010, I am based at Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University.

Recent publications | View all publications >>

Abbühl, L.M., Norton, K.P., Jansen, J.D., Schlunegger, F., Aldahan, A., Possnert, G. 2011. Erosion rates and mechanisms of knickzone retreat inferred from 10Be measured across strong climate gradients on the northern and central Andes Western Escarpment. Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, 36, 1464-1473. View full text >>

Cohen, T.J., Nanson, G.C., Jansen, J.D., Jones, B.G., Jacobs, Z., Larsen, J.R., May, J-H., Treble, P., Price, D.M., Smith, A.M. 2011. Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In press.

Cohen, T.J., Nanson, G.C., Jansen, J.D., Jones, B.G., Jacobs, Z., Treble, P., Price, D.M., May, J-H., Smith, A.M., Ayliffe, L.K., Hellstrom, J.C. 2011. Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's mega-lakes. Geology, 39, 167-170. View full text >>

Croke, J.C, Jansen, J.D., Amos, K.J., Pietsch, T.J. 2011. A 100 ky record of fluvial activity in the Fitzroy River basin, tropical northeastern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 1681-1695. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Fabel, D., Bishop, P., Xu, S., Schnabel, C., Codilean, A.T. 2011. Does decreasing paraglacial sediment supply slow knickpoint retreat? Geology, 39, 543-546. View full text >>

Margold, M., Jansson, K.N., Stroeven, A.P., Jansen, J.D. 2011. Glacial Lake Vitim, a 3000 cu.km outburst flood from Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. Quaternary Research, 76, 393-396. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Codilean, A.T., Bishop, P., Hoey, T.B. 2010. Scale-dependence of lithological control on topography: Bedrock channel geometry and catchment morphometry in western Scotland. Journal of Geology, 118, 223-246. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Nanson, G.C. 2010. Functional relationships between vegetation, channel morphology, and flow efficiency in an alluvial (anabranching) river. Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, F04030. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Codilean, A.T., Fabel, D. 2009. Recent rock uplift across the path of Cooper Creek? Some inferences from cosmogenic nuclides and the long profile. In: G.C. Nanson. The Geomorphology & Quaternary Environments of Eastern Central Australia. International Conference on Geomorphology Field Guide. Melbourne, July 2009. 8 pp. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Fabel, D. 2009. Sandy Creek gorge; humans, palaeofloods and landscape evolution. In: G.C. Nanson. The Geomorphology & Quaternary Environments of Eastern Central Australia. International Conference on Geomorphology Field Guide. Melbourne, July 2009. 9 pp. View full text >>

Larsen, J., Nanson, G.C., Cohen, T.J., Jones, B.G., Jansen, J.D., May, J-H. 2009. Climate change in the dead heart of Australia. In: P. Bierman, D.R. Montgomery. Key Concepts in Geomorphology, Vignettes. W.H. Freeman. View full text >>

Tooth, S., Jansen, J.D., Nanson, G.C., Coulthard, T.J., Pietsch, T. 2008. Riparian vegetation and the late Holocene development of an anabranching river: Magela Creek, northern Australia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 1021-1035. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., 2006. Flood magnitude-frequency and lithologic control on bedrock river incision in post-orogenic terrain. Geomorphology, 82, 39-57. View full text >>

Bishop, P., Hoey, T.B., Jansen, J.D., Artza, I.L., 2005. Knickpoint recession rates and catchment area: the case of uplifted rivers in eastern Scotland. Earth Surface Processes & Landforms, 30, 767-778. View full text >>

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., 2005. The geomorphological setting of some of Scotland's east coast freshwater mills: a comment on Downward and Skinner (2005) 'Working rivers: the geomorphological legacy...'. Area, 37, 443-445. View full text >>

Brooks, A.P., Gehrke, P., Jansen, J.D., Abbe, T.B., 2004. Experimental reintroduction of woody debris on the Williams River, NSW: geomorphic and ecological responses. River Research & Applications, 20, 513-536. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Brierley, G.J., 2004. Pool-fills: a window to palaeoflood history and response in bedrock-confined rivers. Sedimentology, 51, 901-925. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., Nanson, G.C., 2004. Anabranching and maximum flow efficiency in Magela Creek, northern Australia. Water Resources Research, 40, W04503. View full text >>

Jansen, J.D., 2002. Bedrock channel morphodynamics and landscape evolution in an arid zone gorge, Sandy Creek Gorge, south-eastern central Australia. Quaternary Australasia, 20(2). View full text >>

Brooks, A.P., Abbe, T.B., Jansen, J.D., Taylor, M., Gippel, C.J., 2001. Putting the wood back into our rivers: an experiment in river rehabilitation. In: I.D. Rutherfurd et al. (eds.) The Value of Healthy Streams, pp. 73-80. View full text >>

Recent research grants

Fabel, D., Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., Whitbread K. 2010. Postglacial bedrock river incision, £13k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility Allocation 9088.0410).

Jansen, J.D. 2007-2010. How do rivers respond to uplift? A study of river transience, £387k (NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, NE/EO14143/1).

Jansen, J.D., Bishop, P., Hoey, T.B. 2007. Quantifying retreat rates of river knickpoints triggered by glacio-isostatic rebound, £10k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility Allocation 9032.1006).

Nanson, G.C., Jones, B.G., Jansen, J.D. (RA) 2006-2008. Palaeoclimatic and environmental significance of major Late Quaternary drainage contributions and disruptions in the Lake Eyre basin, $270k (Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, DP0667182).

Bishop, P., Hoey, T., Jansen, J.D. 2005-2008. Using the glacioisostatic uplift of N Britain to assess the controls on knickpoint recession in bedrock river channels, £115k (NERC, NE/C510416/1).

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., 2003-2004. Bedrock river morphology and incision processes in a rapidly uplifting mountain block, £1700 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland).

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., 2003-2004. How do bedrock rivers respond to uplift?: River long profiles and river response times in the Sierra Nevada mountain block, Spain, £25k (Royal Academy of Engineering, 10444/26).

Current postgraduate students

Miguel Castillo (PhD candidate)
Katie Whitbread (PhD candidate)

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