Gerald NANSON

Position: Professor
Room: 41.G33
Phone No: +61 2 4221 3631
Email: mailto:gerald_nanson@uow.edu.au

Research Interests

Fluvial geomorphology ~ Fluvial sedimentology ~ Theoretical geomorphology ~ River management ~ Quaternary studies ~ Deserts ~ Luminescence dating

Additional Research Information 

Representative Publications

Searchable Publication List

Huang, H.Q. and Nanson, G.C. (2007). Why some alluvial rivers develop an anabranching pattern. Water Resources Research 43, W07441, doi:10.1029/2006WR005223.

Nanson G.C and Huang, H.Q. (2007). Least action principle, equilibrium states, iterative adjustment and the stability of alluvial channels. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (in press, accepted in January 2007)

Maroulis, J.C., Nanson, G.C., Price, D.M. and Pietsch, T. (2007). Aeolian-fluvial interaction and climate change: source-bordering dune development over the past ~100 ka on Cooper Creek, central Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 386–404.

Cohen, T.J and Nanson, G.C. (2007). Mind the gap: an absence of valley fill deposits identifying the Holocene hypsithermal period of enhanced flow regime in southeastern Australia. The Holocene 17: 1–8.

Hollands, C.B., Nanson, G.C., Jones, B.G., Price, D.M., Pietsch, T.J. and Bristow, C.S. (2006). Aeolian-fluvial interaction: evidence for Late Quaternary channel change and wind-rift linear dune formation in the northwestern Simpson Desert, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 142-162.

Nanson, G.C., Jones B.G. and Price, D.M. (2005). Rivers turned to rock; Late Quaternary alluvial induration influencing the behaviour and morphology of an anabranching river in the Australian Monsoon tropics. Geomorphology 70: 398-420.

Huang, H.Q, Chang, H.H. and Nanson, G.C. (2004). Minimum energy as a hydrodynamic principle and as an explanation for variations in river channel pattern. Water Resources Research, W04502, 2004.

Jansen, J.D and Nanson, G.C. (2004). Anabranching and maximum flow efficiency in Magela Creek, northern Australia. Water Resources Research, 40, W04503, doi:10.1029/2003WR002408.

Tooth, S and Nanson G.C. (2004). Forms and processes of two highly contrasting rivers in arid central Australia, and the implications for channel pattern prediction. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116: 802-816.

Nanson, G.C., Cohen, T.J., Doyle, J. and Price, D.M. (2003). Alluvial evidence of late-Quaternary climate and flow-regime changes on the coastal rivers of New South Wales, Australia. In: K.J Gregory and G. Benito (Eds), Palaeohydrology: Understanding Global Change, Wiley, Chichester (233-258).

Huang, H.O and Nanson, G.C. (2002). A stability criterion inherent in the laws governing alluvial channel flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 27: 929-944.

Current Students

Josh Larsen PhD (Full time)

“Late Quaternary changes in flow regime and its impact on near-surface groundwater near Innamincka in South Australia.”

Suggested Topics for Future Students

• Flow efficiency in  anabranching  rivers - a field study.
• Flow efficiency in  anabranching rivers - a flume study.
• Fluvial-aeolian interaction  during the late Quaternary in central Australia.
• The chronology of flow regime changes in Australia during the Quaternary.  

Abbreviated CV

Academic Qualifications:

University of Otago (N.Z.) B.Sc (Hons) 1970
University of Alberta (Canada) M.Sc. 1972
Simon Fraser University (Canada) Ph.D. 1977

Employment:

1977 to present:  University of Wollongong

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Professor/Professor since 1998.

Detailed CV