Professor Thomas Coulthard Professor of Physical Geography +44 (0)1482 466065 | T.Coulthard@hull.ac.uk Faculty and Department Institutes Energy and Environmental Institute Related groups Energy and Environment Institute Biography Outputs Research/PhD Recognition Qualifications PhD (University of Leeds) Summary Prof. Tom Coulthard is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull, modelling environmental systems specialising in the distributed and cellular modelling of fluvial and landscape systems. Prof. Coulthard is CI on the NERC SEARCH estuary flooding program and PI of the recently completed NERC ERIIP Combination Hazards in ESTuaries (CHEST) researching surge/fluvial/tidal flood risk in UK estuaries. He was a member of the NERC SINATRA flooding from intense rainfall consortium, was a member of the NERC/EPSRC Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC) parts 1 and 2. He has and held a further three NERC grants (GT4/95/147/F, GST/02/0758, NER/A/S/2001/00454), and has supervised five PDRAs and ten research students. Tom has written over 100 papers in leading journals including Geology and Water Resources Research. In 2007 he chaired an independent review into the Hull floods and was lead author on the reviews influential report. Aside from work following the 2007 floods his research interests are diverse, spanning from modelling the impacts of environmental change, metal contamination in river systems and the impacts of vegetation on fluvial geomorphology. In 2005 he was awarded the Warwick award from the British Geomorphological Research Group and in 2008 the Vice Chancellors Prize from the University of Hull. Tom is the 2020 recipient of the EGU Bagnold Medal. He is also the managing editor (and founding editor) of the EGU journal Earth Surface Dynamics. Recent outputs View more outputs Journal Article The Kasei Valles, Mars: a unified record of episodic channel flows and ancient ocean levels Duran, S., & Coulthard, T. J. (2020). The Kasei Valles, Mars: a unified record of episodic channel flows and ancient ocean levels. Scientific reports, 10(1), Article 18571. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-75080-y Modeling the geomorphic response to early river engineering works using CAESAR-Lisflood Ramirez, J. A., Zischg, A. P., Schürmann, S., Zimmermann, M., Weingartner, R., Coulthard, T., & Keiler, M. (2020). Modeling the geomorphic response to early river engineering works using CAESAR-Lisflood. Anthropocene, 32, Article 100266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2020.100266 Landscape evolution of the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area in response to future climate change Li, C., Wang, M., Liu, K., & Coulthard, T. J. (2020). Landscape evolution of the Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area in response to future climate change. Journal of hydrology, 590, Article 125244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125244 The impact of different rainfall products on landscape modelling simulations Skinner, C. J., Peleg, N., Quinn, N., Coulthard, T. J., Molnar, P., & Freer, J. (in press). The impact of different rainfall products on landscape modelling simulations. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4894 Knickpoints in Martian channels indicate past ocean levels Duran, S., Coulthard, T. J., & Baynes, E. R. (2019). Knickpoints in Martian channels indicate past ocean levels. Scientific reports, 9(1), Article 15153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51574-2 Research interests I am fascinated by how rivers shape our landscape. More formally, my main research interests stem from fluvial Geomorphology and include (i) numerical modelling of morphodynamics in river basins and reaches over decadal to millennial time scales (ii) developing and refining 'reduced complexity' hydrodynamic and sediment transport models (iii) non linear, chaotic and complex behavior in natural systems. Postgraduate supervision Current PhD supervisions - Chloe Carter - Jun Xie Recently Completed PhDs - Shona Thomson - Jessica Moloney - Chloe Morris - Sergio Duran Awards and prizes EGU Bagnold Medal 2020 2020 Journal editorial role Editor in Chief, Earth Surface Dynamics 2013 Similar profiles Edward Skevington Energy and Environment Institute Simon Waldman Energy and Environment Institute Jing Li Energy and Environment Institute Katie Parsons Energy and Environment Institute