
Contact details
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Email:
m.j.kirkby
Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 34
36758
Student hours:
TBC
Research overview
Creating models for sustainable land management of desertification prone areas: understanding the physical processes underlying land degradation and working with other social and physical scientists to create integrated models to guide local conservation measures and regional policy development.
There are a number of distinct themes in my work, though with strong overlaps between them. All are concerned with the understanding and modelling of landscape processes and its impact on landscape form. Models are generally seen as a thought experiments which are intended to demonstrate the consistency of general understanding, rather than as specific forecasting tools.
Latest publications
- Peters NE; McDonnell JJ; Binley A; Hornberger GM; Kirkby MJ (2017) HP Volume to honor Keith Beven, Hydrological Processes, 31, pp.3762-3764. doi: 10.1002/hyp.11058
- Gao J; Holden J; Kirkby M (2017) Modelling impacts of agricultural practice on flood peaks in upland catchments: An application of the distributed TOPMODEL, Hydrological Processes, 31, pp.4206-4216. doi: 10.1002/hyp.11355
- Gao J; Holden J; Kirkby M (2016) The impact of land-cover change on flood peaks in peatland basins, Water Resources Research, 52, pp.3477-3492. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017667
- Fleskens L; Kirkby MJ; Irvine BJ (2016) The PESERA-DESMICE Modeling Framework for Spatial Assessment of the Physical Impact and Economic Viability of Land Degradation Mitigation Technologies, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 4, . doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00031
- Kirkby MJ (2016) Water in the critical zone: Soil, water and life from profile to planet, SOIL, 2, pp.631-645. doi: 10.5194/soil-2-631-2016
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