Professor Derek Jackson

Overview

Professor Derek Jackson is a coastal geographer (geomorphologist) and a specialist in the study of coastal aeolian (wind-blown) sand dynamics, storm impacts on coastlines, as well as in the longer-term study of environmental system dynamics.

His work helps in the development of responses to climate change and associated pressures on natural beach and dune systems globally. He is an international specialist in wind-blown sediment transport dynamics on natural beach and dune systems on both Earth and Mars.

He is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Geological Society of London, as well as holding an Honorary Visiting Researcher position at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

He has had a number of Visiting Professorships at universities in South Africa, Spain and France and is a member of editorial boards of top international journals and conference committees and lead researcher on numerous multi-disciplinary, multi-agency international research projects and consortia. He is also a member of the UK’s Natural Environment Research Council Peer Review College.