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Biography I am a geomorphologist. My PhD, in the evolution of the SE Australian high elevation passive continental margin, is from the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. 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 here at ResearcherID. Cenozoic landscape evolution: Research in this area concerns landscape evolution and denudation over millions to tens of 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 isotope analysis, low-temperature thermochronology and various morphometric analyses. This work is currently funded by NERC and the Scottish Funding Council.
Holocene environments and people in the tropics: My broad interest in the tropics is the interplay between human occupation and Late Holocene environmental change in fluvial landscapes in SE Asia. Current research, funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council, is using stalble isotope analyses of speleothems from southern Cambodia to understand climate change in the southern Mekong delta over the last two millennia. As well as elucidating the dynamics of the Late Holocene monsoon and ENSO, this research is an integral part of the National Geographic and NSF-funded Lower Mekong Archaeological Project (LOMAP) at the University of Hawai'i. My previous work on ancient canals in the Mekong delta as part of LOMAP was funded by National Geographic. 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. 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. In press. Codilean, AT., Bishop, P., Hoey, TB., Stuart, FM. and Fabel, D. 2010 Cosmogenic 21Ne analysis of individual detrital grains: opportunities and limitations. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 35, 16-27 View full text >> doi:10.1002/esp.1815 >> 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 >> Bishop, P. 2007. Long-term landscape evolution: Linking tectonics and surface processes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, v.32, 329-365 (Major invited review paper which was awarded the British Society for Geomorphology’s Wiley Award for the best paper published in Earth Surface Processes & Landforms in 2007). View full text >> doi:10.1002/esp.1493 >> Recent research grants | View all grants >> 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) “A vertical profile of cosmogenic 10Be in a soil material of known age: Basis of a novel approach to determining amounts and timing of soil erosion?, £15,010 (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award 9050-048 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. and Hoey, T.B. 2007. Quantifying retreat rates of river knickpoints triggered by glacio-isostatic rebound, £10k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award 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) Bishop, P. and Hansom, J. 2005. OSL 'ages' and depositional settings of December 26 2004 tsunami deposits in Phuket, S Thailand, £22,068 (NERC NE/D521373/1). Co-Investigator: D. Sanderson (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride) 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). 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)
James Westland (PhD candidate)
Katie Whitbread (PhD candidate)
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