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Overview
Ian Evans
Emeritus Reader
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Emeritus Reader in the Department of Geography |
Research interests
- geomorphometry, especially of glaciated landforms
- glacier and cirque distribution of glaciated mountains
Publications
Authored book
Chapter in book
- Evans, D., & Evans, I. (2022). Glacial Processes and Landforms. In T. Burt, A. Goudie, & H. Viles (Eds.), The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology. Volume 5: Geomorphology in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (333-377). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/m58-2021-17
- Evans, I. (2008). Glacial Erosional Processes and Forms: Mountain Glaciation and Glacier Geography. In T. Burt, & N. Cox (Eds.), The history of the study of landforms or the development of geomorphology : Quaternary and recent processes and forms (1890-1965) and the mid-century revolutions. The Geological Society
- Evans, I. (2007). Glacial cirques of the Brecon Beacons. In S. Carr, C. Coleman, A. Humpage, & R. Shakesby (Eds.), The Quaternary of the Brecon Beacons: Field Guide (36 - 40). Quaternary Research Association
- Evans, I. (2007). Glacial landforms, erosional features.. In D. Evans (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (838-852). Elsevier
- Evans, I. (2004). Geomorphometry. In A. Goudie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (435-439). Routledge
- Evans, I. (2004). Cirque, glacial. In A. Goudie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geomorphology (154-158). Routledge
- Evans, I. (2003). Lakeland tarns, cirques and glaciation. In E. Howarth, G. Boer, I. Evans, A. Smith, P. Storey, W. Osmastom, & B. Ware (Eds.), Tarns of the English Lake District: depth surveys and the environmental context (9-19). Brathay Exploration Trust
- Evans, I. (2003). Scale-Specific Landforms and Aspects of the Land Surface. In I. Evans, R. Dikau, E. Tokunaga, H. Ohmori, & M. Hirano (Eds.), Concepts and modelling in geomorphology : international perspectives (61-84). Terrapub
- Evans, I. (2000). Active Margin, Factor of safety, Fan delta, Force, Fractal, Headwall, Resistance, Rifting, River terrace, Supercontinent. In A. Goudie, & D. Thomas (Eds.), Dictionary of Physical Geography. Blackwell
- Evans, I. (1999). Castle Eden Dene and Blunts Dene. In D. Bridgland, B. Horton, & J. Innes (Eds.), The Quaternary of North-east England: Field Guide (57-64). Quaternary Research Association
- Evans, I. (1998). Cartographic Techniques in Geomorphology, Geomorphologische Kartierung. In A. Goudie (Ed.), Translation of 1990 Geomorphological Techniques into German as Geomorphologie: Ein Methodenhandbuch fur Studium und Praxis (106-119). Springer Verlag
- Evans, I. (1998). What do terrain statistics really mean?. In S. Lane, K. Richards, & J. Chandler (Eds.), Landform monitoring, modelling and analysis (119-138). Wiley
- Evans, I. (1998). General Geomorphometry. In A. Goudie (Ed.), Translation of 1990 Geomorphological Techniques into German as Geomorphologie: Ein Methodenhandbuch fur Staduim und Praxis (45-59). Springer Verlag
- Evans, I. (1997). Process and form in the erosion of glaciated mountains. In D. Stoddart (Ed.), Process and form in geomorphology (145-174). Routledge
- Evans, I. (1997). Cirques and moraines of the Helevellyn Range, Cumbria: Grisedale and Ullswater. In J. Boardman (Ed.), Geomorphology of the Lake District: a field guide (63-87). British Geomorphological Research Group
Conference Paper
- Arrell, K., & Evans, I. (2003, December). Predicting Glacier Distributions: Local Climate Predictions. Presented at Proceedings, 60th Eastern Snow Conference, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
- McClean, C., & Evans, I. (2001, December). Non-fractal behaviour in real land surfaces. Presented at GISRUK 2001, University of Glamorgan, Wales
- Evans, I. (2001, December). Some geomorphometric characteristics of real land surfaces. Presented at GISRUK 2001, University of Glamorgan
- McClean, C., & Evans, I. (2001, December). A further difference between the land surface and Fractional Brownian Surfaces. Presented at Proceedings of the symposia on New Concepts & Models in Geomorphology and Geomorphometry, DEMs and GIS, Tokyo
Edited book
Journal Article
- Evans, I. (online). Disappearing glaciers?
- Minár, J., Drăguţ, L., Evans, I. S., Feciskanin, R., Gallay, M., Jenčo, M., & Popov, A. (2024). Physical geomorphometry for elementary land surface segmentation and digital geomorphological mapping. Earth-Science Reviews, 248, Article 104631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2023.104631
- Evans, I. S. (2019). The erosion of glaciated mountains: evidence from hypsoclinometry. Revista de geomorfologie, 21(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.21094/rg.2019.006
- Barr, I. D., Ely, J. C., Spagnolo, M., Evans, I. S., & Tomkins, M. D. (2019). The dynamics of mountain erosion: cirque growth slows as landscapes age. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(13), 2628-2637. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4688
- Zhang, W., Chai, L., Evans, I. S., Liu, L., Li, Y.-P., Qiao, J.-R., Tang, Q.-Y., & Sun, B. (2019). Geomorphic features of Quaternary glaciation in the Taniantaweng Mountain, on the southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Journal of Mountain Science, 16(2), 256-274. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-018-4977-3
- Leigh, J., Stokes, C., Carr, J., Evans, I., Andreassen, L., & Evans, D. (2019). Identifying and mapping very small (
- Minar, J., & Evans, I. (2008). Elementary forms for land surface segemntation: The theoretical basis of terrain analysis and geomorphological mapping. Geomorphology, 95, 236-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.06.003
- Evans, I. (2007). Glacier distribution and direction in the Arctic: the unusual nature of Svalbard
- Evans, I. (2006). Allometric development of glacial cirque form: Geological, relief and regional effects on the cirques of Wales. Geomorphology, 80(3-4), 245-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.02.013
- Evans, I. (2006). Local aspect asymmetry of mountain glaciation: A global survey of consistency of favoured directions for glacier numbers and altitudes. Geomorphology, 73(1-2), 166-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.07.009
- Evans, I. (2006). Glacier distribution in the Alps: statistical modelling of altitude and aspect. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 88(2), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3676.2006.00289.x
- Evans, I., & Cox, N. (2005). Global variations of local asymmetry in glacier altitude: separation of north-south and east-west components. Journal of Glaciology, 51(174), 469-482. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756505781829205
- Evans, I. (2004). Twentieth-Century Change in Glaciers of the Bendor and Shulaps Ranges, British Columbia Coast Mountains
- Schmidt, J., Evans, I., & Brinkmann, J. (2003). Comparison of polynomial models for land surface curvature calculation. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 17(8), 797-814
- McClean, C., & Evans, I. (2000). Apparent fractal dimensions from continental scale digital elevation models using variogram methods. Transactions in GIS, 4(4), 361-378
- Evans, I. (1999). Was the cirque glaciation of Wales time-transgressive or not?. Annals of Glaciology, 28, 33-39. https://doi.org/10.3189/172756499781821652
- Kumar, N., & Evans, I. (1997). Map output format from GIS: optimising visual quality of paper and electronic atlases
- Evans, I. (1996). Abraided rock landforms (whalebacks) developed under ice streams in mountain areas. Annals of Glaciology, 22, 9-16
- Evans, I., & Cox, N. (1995). The form of glacial cirques in the English Lake District, Cumbria. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 39, 175-202
- Evans, I., & McClean, C. (1995). The land surface is not unifractal; variograms, cirque scale and allometry. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplement-Band 101, 127-147