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Editorial |
1 Chairman of the Engineering Group
Received for publication 10 August 2001. Accepted for publication 10 August 2001.
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Denys Brunsden is Emeritus Professor of Geomorphology at the Department of Geography, King's College, London. He was born in Torquay in 1936 and, after his National Service with the RAF Joint Air Photographic Interpretation Unit, he joined King's College in 1956 as a geography undergraduate, studying also geology and social anthropology. His major influences at King's were Professor S W Wooldridge and, later, Professor Jake Hancock. He went on to spend his entire career at King's. Following his PhD on the geomorphology of the River Dart in 1963, he was appointed to the academic staff, culminating in Emeritus Professor in 1996 and Fellow of King's College in 1998. He has also seen his fair share of other institutions, as visiting lecturer or professor, in the UK, USA, Germany and New Zealand.
Denys is no stranger to the distinguished lecture circuit, having given state-of-the-art presentations in most British universities and over 40 others world-wide, from Australia to Uzbekistan. Organisations such as the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), The Association of American Geographers, The Royal Society, The International Geographical Union, The US Corps of Engineers and the UK National Co-ordination Committee for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (and many more besides) have all asked Denys to speak. We are greatly honoured that he has agreed to give the 5th Glossop Lecture.
Professor Brunsden is a distinguished applied geomorphologist of truly international statue, specializing in landslides, high mountains, deserts, coasts and the applications of geomorphology. He has been honoured with, amongst others,
