Professor John Boardman

Professor John Boardman is a Research Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He is a geomorphologist educated at the Universities of Keele (BA and DSc) and London (BSc and PhD). John retired from the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, in September 2008, and from his positions as Deputy Director of the ECI, Director of the MSc in Environmental Change and Management.

John is now an Emeritus Fellow at the ECI and continues working on land degradation issues, particularly in the Karoo, South Africa. He is Honorary Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town.

He has published over 150 papers mainly on land degradation and has edited several books: Soils and Quaternary Landscape Evolution (Wiley 1985), Periglacial Processes and Landforms in Britain and Ireland (CUP 1987), Soil Erosion on Agricultural Land (Wiley 1990), Modelling Soil Erosion by Water (Springer 1998) and Soil Erosion in Europe (Wiley 2006).

John was Chairman of the EU-funded COST Action 623 ‘Soil Erosion and Global Change’ (1998-2003) with 21 participating countries and Chaired a Working Group in COST 634 ‘On and Off-Site Impacts of Runoff and Erosion’. He is UK representative on the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Transdisciplinary Proposal Standing Assessment Board and also on the Earth System Science and Environmental Management committee.

John is also a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

View more information about John’s research interests, teaching and publications here.

Contact: john.boardman@eci.ox.ac.uk