Staff profile
Overview
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Professor Martin Evans
Executive Dean
FRGS FBSG
Affiliation |
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Executive Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health |
Esteem Indicators
- 2024 - 2025: Bezos Earth Fund prize for climate innovation: Bezos prize for research on selecting sphagnum characteristics to maximise methane oxidation
- 2022: Fellow of British Society for Geomorphology (FBSG):
Publications
Journal Article
- Large cobblestone dams for natural flood management in wide peatland gulliesJohnston, A. R., Brown, D., Allott, T., Goudarzi, S., Kay, M., Milledge, D., Shuttleworth, E., Spencer, T., & Evans, M. (2025). Large cobblestone dams for natural flood management in wide peatland gullies. Ecological Engineering, 219, Article 107702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107702
- The effects of drought on Sphagnum moss species and the implications for hydrology in peatlandsKeane, B., Alderson, D. M., Clay, G. D., Evans, M. G., Field, C. D., Johnston, A., Limpens, J., McCarter, C. P. R., Overtoom, N., Ritson, J. P., Robroek, B. J. M., Rochefort, L., Shuttleworth, E. L., Telgenkamp, Y., Turetsky, M. R., & Waddington, J. M. (2025). The effects of drought on Sphagnum moss species and the implications for hydrology in peatlands. New Phytologist, 247(5), 2003-2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70361
- Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds.Keane, B., Shuttleworth, E. L., Evans, M. G., Ritson, J. P., Harris, A., Johnston, A., Alderson, D. M., & Clay, G. D. (2025). Recovery of Sphagnum from drought is controlled by species-specific moisture thresholds. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 22167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05348-8
- Gully erosion is a serious obstacle in India’s land degradation neutrality missionMajhi, A., Bhattacharjee, P., Harris, A., Evans, M., & Shuttleworth, E. (2025). Gully erosion is a serious obstacle in India’s land degradation neutrality mission. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 6384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-89613-w
- The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peatsWorrall, F., Clay, G. D., Heckman, K., Ritson, J., Evans, M., & Small, J. (2024). The formation of peat—Decreasing density with depth in UK peats. Soil Use and Management, 40(4), Article e13155. https://doi.org/10.1111/sum.13155