Prof Julian Orford

Prof Julian Orford (Extended Information)

Qualifications

BA Hons (Geography and Sociology) Keele 1970.
MSc Salford 1973.
PhD Reading 1978.

Professor of Physical Geography

Email: j.orford@qub.ac.uk

Address

School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44 (0)28 9097 5142

Current Administrative Roles:

Past Head of School 2005-2009

Publications:

Orford, J.D., Forbes, D.L. and Jennings, S.C. 2002 Organisational controls, typologies and timescales  of paraglacial gravel-dominated coastal systems. Geomorphology,  48,  51-85.

Orford, J.D., Murdy, J. and Wintle, A. 2003 Prograded Holocene beach-ridges with superimposed dunes in north-east Ireland: mechanisms and timescales of fine and coarse beach sediment decoupling and deposition.  Marine Geology, 194. 47-64.

Orford, J.D. 2005 The controls on late-Holocene coastal dune formation on leeside coasts of the British Isles.  Zeitscrift fur Geomorphologie. Supp Band 141; 135-15.

Orford, J.D. and Pethick, J.S. 2006 Challenging assumptions of coastal habitat formation in the 21st century. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 31, 1625-42. 

External Grant Funding:

2006 Environment and Heritage Service (NI): “Contemporary Relative Sea-level Change in NI”. £24343