This series, the first in an ongoing series of lectures on the connection between environment, climate, climate change and history, brings together some of the leading scholars in the world who work at this nexus in the Nile river basin. The series explores recent developments in the archaeology and climate history of the Nile river, settlement patterns, the connections between the Sahara and the Nile valley, fluvial geomorphology and the history of water in the Nile river and the interpretation of new paleoclimate proxy records.
Jamie is a geomorphologist with particular interests in the nature and impacts of Quaternary environmental change in the Mediterranean region and the Nile basin. A good deal of his work takes place in close collaboration with archaeologists and he is interested in the theoretical and practical interface between geography, geoscience and archaeology. Jamie is currently working on two projects in the Nile Valley of Northern Sudan with archaeologists from the British Museum exploring the relationship between human activity and environmental change over the last 10,000 years or so.