Room: 306 Craig Mair

Phone: 01248 382523

E-mail: d.g.huws@bangor.ac.uk

ResearchGate

I am a senior lecturer in Marine Geophysics here at the School of Ocean Sciences. I graduated from the University of Leicester in 1986 with a degree in Geology with Geophysics and went on from there to complete the Masters course in Marine Geotechnics at SOS. After this, I worked as a Research Assistant on two EU funded research projects and resulting from this was my PhD thesis entitled, 'Measurement and analysis of shear wave velocity in marine sediments', completed in 1992. I was then appointed as a Research Officer in Marine Geophysics, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and my present position in 2012.

• PhD: Shear Waves in Marine Sediments
  University of Wales, Bangor, 1992
• MSc: Marine Geotechnics
  University of Wales, Bangor, 1988
• BSc: Geology and Geophysics
  University of Leicester, 1986

I teach across all Levels, generally in geosience and specifically in marine geophysics.

I offer practical research projects in relation to the use of geophysics in offshore engineering and palaeoclimate studies.

I am Programme Director for the MSc in Applied Marine Geoscience and MSci in Geological Oceanography.

As School Director of Teaching and Learning, I'm also interested in ensuring that all programme curricula are up-to-date and well-delivered by staff.  I coordinate the activies of our Teaching and Scholarship staff and ensure that both they and the Teaching and Research staff are well supported in delivering their teaching.  I also have a role in Quality Assurance across our modules and programmes.

Research Interests

My current research interests are focussed around the use of high resolution geophysical methods with applications in three fields: (i) tropical palaeo-climate studies in relation to hominin evolution and migration; (ii) marine archaeological studies and (iii) marine engineering applications.  Specifically, I have been involved in a number of studies based in northern Ethiopia that have investigated the inter-relationship between past climates and the migratory history of early homo sapiens; and more recently a study in southern Ethiopia that broadens the link to also include deeper-time evolutionary events and culture developments.  I’m also interested in palaeoenvironmenal reconstruction more broadly, but in the context of submerged landscapes e.g. working around the Orkney Isles.  Previous to this, and still with an interest, my research was aimed at bridging the gap between the geophysical and geotechnical properties of marine sediments – specifically by using shear waves and Love waves in the marine environment.

Research Groups

• Earth System Science and Climate Change

2018

• Published150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa
  Lamb, H., Bates, R., Bryant, C., Davies, S., Huws, D., Marshall, M. & Roberts, H., 18 Jan 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 1077.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedGenerating long chronologies for lacustrine sediments using luminescence dating: a 250,000 year record from Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  Roberts, H., Bryant, C., Huws, D. & Lamb, H., 15 Dec 2018, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 202, p. 66-77
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2017

• PublishedTuning, Interference and False Shallow Gas Signatures in Geohazard Interpretations: Beyond the 'λ/4' Rule
  Barret, B., Huws, D., Booth, A., Wergeland, O. & Green, M., Aug 2017, In: Near-surface Geophysics . 15, 4, p. 359-366
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

• PublishedThe Hominin sites and Palaeolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia
  Lamb, H., Cohen, A., Schabitz, F., Asrat, A., Bates, R., Davies, S., Deino, A., Forster, V., Grove, M., Huws, D., Junginger, A., Konrad-Schmolke, M., Lane, C., Leng, M., Mark, D., Martin-Jones, E., Pearce, N., Pearson, E., Ramsey, C., Raub, T., Rethemeyer, J., Roberts, H., Rogass, C., Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., Wagner, B. & Woldegabriel, G., 6 Jun 2016, In: Quaternary International. 404, Part B, p. 209 1 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
• PublishedThe environmental context of the Neolithic monuments on the Brodgar Isthmus, Mainland, Orkney
  Bates, R., Bates, M., Dawson, S., Huws, D., Whittaker, J. E. & Wickham-Jones, C. R., 1 Jun 2016, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 7, p. 394-407
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2015

• PublishedClimatic variability, plasticity, and dispersal: A case study from Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  Grove, M., Lamb, H., Roberts, H., Davies, S., Marshall, M., Bates, R. & Huws, D. G., 19 Oct 2015, In: Journal of Human Evolution. 87, p. 42-47
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedGeological settings and seafloor morphodynamic evolution linked to methane seepage
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Niemann, H., Steinle, L. I., O'Reilly, S. S., Huws, D. G. & Croker, P. F., 28 Apr 2015, In: Geo-Marine Letters. 35, 4, p. 289-304
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2012

• PublishedA Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Archaeological Investigation of a Bedrock-Dominated Shallow-Marine Landscape: An example from the Bay of Firth, Orkney, UK
  Bates, M., Nayling, N., Bates, R., Dawson, S., Huws, D. & wickham-jones, C. R., 2 Oct 2012, In: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 42, 1, p. 24 20 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

• PublishedLate Devensian and holocene relative sea-level change in North Wales, UK.
  Roberts, M. J., Scourse, J. D., Bennell, J. D., Huws, D. G., Jago, C. F. & Long, B. T., 1 Feb 2011, In: Quaternary Science. 26, 2, p. 141-155
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedLate Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile
  Marshall, M. H., Lamb, H. F., Huws, D. G., Davies, S. J., Bates, R., Bloemendal, J., Boyle, J., Lengb, M. J., Umer, M. & Bryant, C., 1 Aug 2011, In: Global and Planetary Change. 78, 3-4, p. 147-161
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2005

• PublishedThe estimation of shear-wave statics using in situ measurements in marine near-surface sediments.
  Winsborrow, G., Huws, D. G. & Muyzert, E., 1 Jul 2005, In: Geophysical Prospecting. 53, 4, p. 557-577
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2003

• PublishedAcquisition and inversion of Love wave data to measure the lateral variability of geo-acoustic properties of marine sediments.
  Winsborrow, G., Huws, D. G. & Muyzert, E., 1 Nov 2003, In: Journal of Applied Geophysics. 54, 1-2, p. 71-84
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2002

• PublishedHolocene evolution of seasonal stratification in the Celtic Sea: refined age model, mixing depths and foraminiferal stratigraphy.
  Scourse, J. D., Austin, W. E., Long, B. T., Assinder, D. J. & Huws, D., 30 Nov 2002, In: Marine Geology. 191, 3-4, p. 119-145
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedSurficial seabed sediment properties derived from seismic profiler responses.
  Davis, A., Haynes, R., Bennell, J. & Huws, D. G., 10 Apr 2002, In: Marine Geology. 182, 1-2, p. 209-223
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2001

• PublishedA nondestructive technique for predicting the in situ void ratio for marine sediments.
  Huws, D., Davis, A. & Pryah, J. R., 1 Oct 2001, In: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 18, 4, p. 333-346
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedAssessing the validity of seismo-acoustic predictor equations for obtaining seabed and sub-surface sediemnt physical properties
  Schnack-Fredrichsen, A., Davis, A., Bennell, J. D. & Huws, D., 1 Oct 2001, In: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 19, 4, p. 221-243
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1989

• PublishedDevelopment of a seafloor geophysical sledge
  Davis, A., Bennell, J., Huws, D. & Thomas, D., 31 Jan 1989, In: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 8, 2, p. 99-109 10 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• A 500,000-year environmental record from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia

  01/11/2013 – 12/01/2017 (Finished)

• Countryside Council for Wales, PhD Student Bursary

  01/05/2010 – 30/09/2010 (Finished)

• M.Sc. bursary for Applied Marine Geoscience M. Sc. programme

  01/10/2009 – 30/09/2010 (Finished)