Staff Profile:Dr Steve Gurney
- Responsibilities:
- Departmental Director of Academic Tutoring & Disability Officer
- Undergraduate Teaching: Geomorphology; Geomorphological Hazards; Glacial & Periglacial Geomorphology.
- Areas of Interest:
- Periglacial and permafrost geomorphology and sedimentology
- Glacial geomorphology and sedimentology
- Nival geomorphology and hydrology
- Quaternary mid-latitude permafrost and periglacial environments
- The history of mountain glaciers since the Little Ice Age
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Karst geomorphology and hydrology
The Okstindan Research Project has a Research Station ('Okstindhytta') located in the mountainous Okstindan area of northern Norway. The Project has been running for over 30 years and the station has provided a base for teaching and research for the whole of this period. Steve is currently the administrator of the station. Read more about Okstindan.
Dr Gurney also holds the position of 'Docent in cold climate geomorphology' at the University of Turku, Finland.
- Research groups / Centres:
- Environmental Science Research Division
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 13.
2015
- Gurney, S. D. and Hayward, S. (2015) Earth hummocks in north-east Okstindan, northern Norway: morphology, distribution and environmental constraints. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift, 69 (5). pp. 299-309. ISSN 0029-1951 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1084530
2010
- Gurney, S. D., Astin, T. R. and Griffiths, G. H. (2010) Origin and structure of Devensian depressions at Letton, Herefordshire. Mercian Geologist, 17 (3). pp. 181-184.
- Gurney, S. D. (2010) Contemporary (2001) and ‘Little Ice Age’ glacier extents in the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, north east Siberia. Journal of Maps, 2010. pp. 7-13. ISSN 1744-5647 doi: https://doi.org/10.4113/jom.2010.1113
2009
- Bartsch, A., Gude, M. and Gurney, S. D. (2009) Quantifying sediment transport processes in periglacial mountain environments at a catchment scale using geomorphic process units. Geografiska Annaler Series a-Physical Geography, 91A (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0435-3676 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0459.2009.00349.x
2008
- Bartsch, A., Gude, M. and Gurney, S. D. (2008) A geomatics-based approach for the derivation of the spatial distribution of sediment transport processes in periglacial mountain environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 33 (14). pp. 2255-2265. ISSN 0197-9337 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.1696
- Gurney, S. D., Popovnin, V. V., Shahgedanova, M. and Stokes, C. R. (2008) A glacier inventory for the Buordakh Massif, Cherskiy Range, northeast Siberia, and evidence for recent glacier recession. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40 (1). pp. 81-88. ISSN 1523-0430 doi: https://doi.org/10.1657/1523-0430(06-042)[gurney]2.0.co;2
2007
- Stokes, C. R., Popovnin, V., Aleynikov, A., Gurney, S. D. and Shahgedanova, M. (2007) Recent glacier retreat in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia, and associated increase in supraglacial debris cover and supra-/proglacial lake development. Annals of Glaciology, 46 (1). pp. 195-203. ISSN 1727-5644 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756407782871468
- White, K., Walden, J. and Gurney, S. D. (2007) Spectral properties, iron oxide content and provenance of Namib dune sands. Geomorphology, 86 (3-4). pp. 219-229. ISSN 0169-555X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.08.014
2006
- Stokes, C. R., Gurney, S. D., Shahgedanova, M. and Popovnin, V. (2006) Late-20th-century changes in glacier extent in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia/Georgia. Journal of Glaciology, 52 (176). pp. 99-109. ISSN 0022-1430 doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/172756506781828827
2005
- Shahgedanova, M., Stokes, C. R., Gurney, S. D. and Popovnin, V. (2005) Interactions between mass balance, atmospheric circulation, and recent climate change on the Djankuat Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110 (D4). D04108. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2004jd005213
- Gurney, S.D. and Bartsch, A. (2005) Mapping the spatial distribution of geomorphological processes in the Okstindan area of northern Norway, using Geomorphic Process Units as derived from remote sensing and ground survey. Fennia, 183. pp. 1-14. ISSN 0015-0010
- Gurney, S. D. and White, K. (2005) Sediment magnetic properties of glacial till deposited since the Little Ice Age maximum for selected glaciers at Svartisen and Okstindan, northern Norway. Boreas, 34 (1). pp. 75-83. ISSN 0300-9483 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.2005.tb01006.x
2004
- Gurney, S. D. and Lawrence, D. S. L. (2004) Seasonal trends in the stable isotopic composition of snow and meltwater runoff in a subarctic catchment at Okstindan, Norway. Nordic Hydrology, 35 (2). pp. 119-137. ISSN 0029-1277
Earlier Publications
White, K., Livingstone, I., Gurney, S., Dearing, J., and Bateman, M. (2002) Post-processing of mineral mixture maps for mapping surficial materials: the example of the Matmata loess, southern Tunisia. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 23, 3091-3106.
Gurney, S.D. (2001): Aspects of the genesis and geomorphology and terminology of palsas: perennial cryogenic mounds. Progress in Physical Geography 25, 249-260.
Gurney, S D (2000) Relict cryogenic mounds in the UK as evidence of climate change. In McLaren, S J and Kniveton, D R (Editors) Linking climate change to land surface change (Kluwer), 209-229.
Gurney S D (1998) Aspects of the genesis and geomorphology of pingos: perennial permafrost mounds. Progress in Physical Geography 22, 307-324.
Gurney S D, James H C L & Worsley P (1998) The nature of Last Glacial periglaciation in the Channel Islands. Geoscience in south-west England 9, 250-254.
Gurney S D & Worsley P (1997) A discussion of pingos in Mellemfjord, Disko, central west Greenland. Geografisk Tidsskrift 97, 154-156.
Gurney S D & Worsley P (1997) Genetically complex and morphologically diverse pingos in the Fish Lake area of south west Banks Island, N.W.T., Canada. Geografiska Annaler 79A, 41-56.
Gurney S D & Worsley P (1996) Relict cryogenic mounds at Owlbury, near Bishops' Castle, Shropshire. Mercian Geologist 14, 14-21.
Worsley P & Gurney S D (1996) Geomorphology and hydrogeological significance of the Holocene pingos in the Karup Valley area, Traill Island, northern east Greenland. Journal of Quaternary Science 11, 249-262.
Worsley P, Gurney S D & Collins P E F (1995) Late Holocene 'mineral palsas' and associated vegetation patterns: a case study from Lac Hendry, Northern Qu'bec, Canada and significance for European Pleistocene thermokarst. Quaternary Science Reviews 14, 179-192.
Gurney S D (1995) A reassessment of the relict Pleistocene "pingos" of west Wales: hydraulic pingos or mineral palsas? Quaternary Newsletter 77, 6-16.
- Qualifications:
- BSc (Wales) PhD (Reading)
