Paul Carling

Paul Anthony Carling (born June 17, 1953 in Bridgwater , Somerset , England ) is an English geographer and professor emeritus of physical geography at the University of Southampton .

life and work

Carling studied until 1974 with a bachelor's degree in geography at Leicester University . He then moved to the University of Wales , where he received his Doctor of Philosophy in Oceanography in 1977 .

After graduating, he worked as a senior scientist at the NERC Institute of Freshwater Ecology in Windermere until 1994 . In 1994 he accepted an appointment at the University of Southampton. His scientific focus is on the exploration of paleo floods , sedimentation of meteorite impacts in Southeast Asia and sedimentation in the mouth of the Severn .

Carling is a member of the British Standards Institution , the British Hydrological Society, the British Geomorphological Research Group and the International Association Sedimentologists. He is co-editor of several books.

Works

• Devon M. Burr, Paul A. Carling, Victor R. Baker : Megaflooding on Earth and Mars , Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-86852-5

Selected publications

• P. Bohorquez, PA Carling, J. Herget : Dynamic simulation of catastrophic late Pleistocene glacial-lake drainage, Altai Mountains, central Asia. In: International Geology Review. 2015, p. 1, doi : 10.1080 / 00206814.2015.1046956 .
• Wei Huang, ZhiXian Cao, Gareth Pender, QingQuan Liu, Paul Carling: Coupled flood and sediment transport modeling with adaptive mesh refinement. In: Science China Technological Sciences. 58, 2015, p. 1425, doi : 10.1007 / s11431-015-5880-6 .
• Paul A. Carling: Freshwater megaflood sedimentation: What can we learn about generic processes ?. In: Earth Science Reviews. 125, 2013, p. 87, doi : 10.1016 / j.earscirev.2013.06.002 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of Paul Carling at the University of Southampton