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Biography I am a geomorphologist. My PhD, on the evolution of the SE Australian high elevation passive continental margin, is from the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, which also awarded me a DSc in 2009. I came to Glasgow in 1998 to take up the Chair of Physical Geography, after nine years at Monash University in Melbourne. For the last seven years in Melbourne, I was the Director (Administration) of Monash's Graduate School of Environmental Science. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.
Major areas of current service include: - appointment Sept 2007-August 2010 to the Natural Environment Research Council's Science and Innovation Strategy Board (SISB); and - Chair of the Executive Editors of the Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I am also on the Editorial Boards of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Progress in Physical Geography, and Australian Geographer. Research interests My research interests are best captured by my publications which are listed below. My main research area is Cenozoic landscape evolution and landscape evolution and denudation over thousands to millions of years, on both passive continental margins and in active mountain belts. The main techniques that my PhD students, post-docs and I use are cosmogenic nuclide analysis, low-temperature thermochronology and various morphometric analyses. We have developed novel applications cosmogenic nuclide analysis, including using PDFs of single-grain cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations in sediments to infer catchment morphology and processes, and in situ 14C in quartz. Applications of these analytical techniques are collaborative with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC). This research is currently funded by NERC, the Scottish Funding Council and the European Commission. Current work is focused on the ways in which bedrock rivers and the landscape respond to rock uplift. A major focus is using the glacio-isostatic rebound of northern Britain to test hypotheses concerning knickpoint retreat in response to rock uplift. We find that knickpoint retreat scales closely to catchment area (a surrogate for water and sediment discharge) and that this scaling is not influenced by rock type or structure. Lithology is influential in situations of low stream power (i.e., low discharges and/or low stream gradients) such as in the post-orogenic settings of interior SE Australia. Knickpoints in such post-orogenic settings, driven by denudational isostatic rebound, readily propagate upstream until they encounter resistant lithologies, where the knickpoints 'stall'. In those situations, the catchment areas above the knickpoints become 'detached' from the base-level signal, meaning in turn that catchment relief must be increasing. Current research See details of recent and current, funded projects below Recent publications | View all publications >> Bishop, P. and Goldrick, G. 2010. Lithology and the evolution of bedrock rivers in post-orogenic settings: Constraints from the high elevation passive continental margin of SE Australia. In Bishop, P. and Pillans, B. (eds) Australian Landscapes. Geological Society of London Special Publication. In press. Bishop, P., Muñoz-Salinas, E., MacKenzie, A.B., Pulford, I. and McKibbin, J. 2010. The character, volume and implications of sediment impounded in mill dams in Scotland: The case of the Baldernock Mill dam in East Dunbartonshire. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In press 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 >> 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 >> Leake, B.E., Bishop. P. 2009. The beginnings of Geography Teaching and Research in the University of Glasgow: The impact of J. W. Gregory. Scottish Geographical Journal v.125, 273-284. Bishop, P. 2008. Tectonic and Related Landforms, In Chorley, R.J. et al., The History of the Study of Landforms. London: The Geological Society, pp.55-105. Campanile, D., Nambiar, C.G., Bishop, P., Widdowson, M. and Brown, R. 2008. Sedimentation record in the Konkan-Kerala basin: Implications for the evolution of the Western Ghats and the Western Indian passive margin. Basin Research, v.20, 3–22. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00341.x >> Recent research grants | View all grants >> Fabel, D., Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., Whitbread K. 2010. Postglacial bedrock river incision, £13k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility Allocation 9088.0410). Bishop, P. and Munoz-Salinas, E. 2009-2011. The evolution of post-orogenic landscapes: bedrock rivers, lithology and relief development (PostOroLand), Euros172,434 (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 – Proposal N° 237203). Bishop, P. and Munoz-Salinas, E. 2009. The role of resistant lithologies in the evolution of post-orogenic landscapes, £19,010 (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award). Co-investigator: F. Stuart (SUERC), A.T. Codilean (GFZ). Bishop, P. and Codilean, T. 2008. Single grain 21Ne/10Be ratios in fluvial quartz pebbles: Testing the reliability of cosmogenic 21Ne in sediment, £15,010 (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award 9054.0408). Co-investigator: F. Stuart (SUERC) Bishop, P. 2006-2010. SAGES (Scottish Alliance for Geosciences, Environment & Society, £6.5M (Scottish Funding Council for a pan-Scotland Pooling Initiative; £898,000 to Glasgow). Co-applicants (on behalf of the Scottish geosciences community): D.E. Sugden (Edinburgh), A.E. Fallick (SUERC). 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). Bishop, P. 2006-2009. Early historic landscapes and the rise of centralised states on the Mekong Delta, Cambodia, £196,230 (AHRC 119196). Co-Investigators: Professor Tony Fallick (Co-applicant; Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre); collaborating with Dr Dan Penny (University of Sydney), Dr Miriam Stark (University of Hawai`i), Dr Russell Drysdale (University of Newcastle, Australia) Teaching responsibilities My time is currently devoted 100% to research and I have no teaching responsibilities Current postgraduate students
Miguel Castillo (PhD candidate)
Réka-Hajnalka Fülöp (PhD candidate)
Gaetan Vilette (MSc candidate)
Katie Whitbread (PhD candidate)
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