Dr Lynda Yorke

• Postgraduate Cert. Teaching Higher Education
  Aberystwyth University, 2009–2011
• PhD: Quaternary Geology
  Department of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, University of Hull, 2004–2008
• MSc: Geomorphology and Environmental Change
  Department of Geography, Durham University, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK, 1999–2001
• BSc: Geography
  Northumbria University, 1995–1998

I joined SNS in Jan 2012 as a lecturer in Physical Geography, and became a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography in Feb 2018. As a Geographer I've studied in a number of departments across the UK, starting off at Northumbria University (BSc) before going on to Durham University (MSc) and then completing my PhD at the University of Hull. I worked in industry before my undergraduate studies and following my Masters. My research interest lie in reconstructing fluvial histories, glacial sedimentology, and geoarchaeology. I am also interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, particularly within the GEES disciplines.

I work with colleagues in the School of Ocean Sciences and the School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences on teaching and research, reflecting my wide interests.

DXX 1005 Earth Systems and Processes

DXX 1006 Making Snowdonia

DXX 1007 Academic Tutorial

ONS 1001 Environmental Data Analysis

OSX 1003 Earth, Climate and Evolution (contributor)

DXX 2008 Geohazards (Module Organiser)

ONS 2011 Ice and Oceans  (contributor)

DXX 3018 Rivers, Coasts and Oceans (Module Organiser)

Reconstructing long-term river histories

Glacial sedimentology

Geoarchaeology (fluvial/coastal settings)

Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction

2013

• PublishedGlaciodynamics of the central sector of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet in Northern England
  Livingstone, S. J., Evans, D. J., Cofaigha, C. Ó., Davies, B. J., Merritt, J. W., Huddart, D., Mitchell, W. A., Roberts, D. H. & Yorke, L., 1 Feb 2013, In : Earth-Science Reviews. 111, 1-2, p. 25-55
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2012

• PublishedDepositional history of the Tyne valley associated with retreat and stagnation of Late Devensian Ice Streams
  Yorke, L., Rumsby, B. T. & Chiverrell, R. C., 1 Aug 2012, In : Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 123, 4, p. 608-625
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2011

• PublishedChannel bar dynamics on multi-decadal timescales in an active meandering river
  Hooke, J. M. & Yorke, L., 1 Nov 2011, In : Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 36, 14, p. 1910-1928
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

2010

• PublishedRates, distributions and mechanisms of change in meander morphology over decadal timescales, River Dane, UK
  Hooke, J. M. & Yorke, L., 1 Oct 2010, In : Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 35, 13, p. 1601-1614
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

MEDIA

• BBC RadioWales, interview on BBC Science Café. Broadcast March 2017.
• BBC Two/BBC One Wales, television interview/contribution to Richard Park’s Extreme Wales. Broadcast September and November 2016.
• Skinner, C., Yorke, L. (9 December 2015). Flooding and Geomorphology [British Society for Geomorphology Press Release]. Retrieved from https://geomorphology.org.uk
• ITV1, television interview/contribution to Bear Gryll’s ‘Britain’s Biggest Adventures’. Broadcast September 2015.
• Daily Post Wales ‘We can’t cope with more storms’. Interview and comment on flooding. Published 11^th January 2014.
• BBC One Wales, television interview/contribution to Week In Week out ‘Holding back the floods’. Broadcast 5^th November 2013. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03gq1hf