Daniel Parsons

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Daniel Roy Parsons is (2022-) Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Loughborough University and holds the Personal Title of Professor in Geosciences. He was the founding Director of the Energy and Environment Institute (2017-2022) [1] and a professor of process sedimentology at the University of Hull from 2011 to 2022. [2] He is also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois (USA) and Can Tho University (Vietnam). [3] He obtained his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2004. [4] Parsons is known for his work on flow processes and sediment transport in rivers, coasts and estuaries, and the deep sea. This includes work addressing flood hazard and risk, [5] [6] as well as internationally leading work detailing turbidity currents and associated hazards in the deep sea. [7] Parsons also researches the leakage and transport of plastics in rivers, coasts and estuaries and as part of the Huxley debate at the 2018 British Science Festival he claimed that the most significant marker for the Anthropocene age may be the fossilisation of plastic debris such as formed in plastiglomerate. [8] Parsons is currently a member of the Natural Environment Research Council Research Committee. Parsons has recently completed a major research programme funded via a European Research Council Consolidator Award exploring the evolution of stickiness and its impact of morphodynamic and sedimentary processes. [9] He is presently President of Division for Geomorphology of the European Geosciences Union [10] and a Commissioner on the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, chairing the Research and Evidence Panel. [11]

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A full publications listing is available here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=qjPIPvQAAAAJ&hl=en

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References

  1. "Energy and Environment Institute". www.hull.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  2. "Professor Daniel Parsons - University of Hull". www.hull.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 14 April 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  3. "Dan Parsons". See.leeds.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 July 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  4. Lomartire, Simone. "Yorkshire Network for Canadian Studies". www.leeds.ac.uk.
  5. "EvoFlood - The Evolution of Global Flood Hazard and Risk". www.evoflood.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  6. "Mekong Delta's sinking problem". BBC News. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  7. "Underwater avalanche continued for two days". BBC News. 7 June 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  8. Science Correspondent, Rhys Blakely (14 September 2018). "The Plastic Age: pollution leaves its mark on fossils" via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  9. "European Research Council". Archived from the original on 12 June 2017.
  10. https://www.egu.eu/gm/structure/
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