Ed Garrett
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
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Ed is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Physical Geography in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. His research focuses on the globally significant and often interlinked hazards of subduction zone earthquakes, tsunamis, and sea-level rise. He uses sedimentary and geomorphic records to reconstruct the timing, rates, and magnitudes of these processes over annual to multi-millennial timescales. In doing so, he seeks to examine underlying mechanisms and provide evidence to underpin future hazard assessments and projections that enable the development of improved resilience and mitigation strategies. Ed’s research draws on a diverse range of approaches, including field-based surveying, sedimentology, microfossil analysis, geochronology and geophysical modelling. A new strand of his research focuses on carbon storage in intertidal environments.
Before joining the department in 2019, Ed held research and teaching positions at the Geological Survey of Belgium and Durham University (where he also completed his PhD). His postdoctoral research focussed on palaeoseismology and sea-level change projects in Chile, Alaska, Japan and New Zealand.
Ed is the leader of the Creating a Climate Resilient World research group.
