Sam Woor

Our latest paper (and last from my PhD) is out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! A thread... #geomorphology #Arabia #quaternary authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent 'green' periods in the past, as a result of periods of high rainfall, resulting in the formation of lakes and rivers around 9,000 years ago. #GreenArabia miragenews.com/unearthing-lus…

We're excited to host a session on Distributary Landforms at ICG 2026 in Christchurch, NZ. Join us! Abstract submission open until 31 May at confer.co.nz/icg2026/call-f…. @SamWoor @anapiliouras

Ever wondered how much sediment moles can shift?…

It's time to get ready for #BSG24 at @lborouniversity Abstracts are now being accepted!⬇️⬇️

@romangarba @Nature @UJF_AVCR @HZDR_Dresden @ARUBrno @GFU_AVCR @latrobe @AarhusUni @aru_praha @UniKarlova Congratulations Roman!!

Our study "East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4-million-years-ago" was just published online in @Nature !!! nature.com/articles/s4158… Thank you to all participating institutions! @UJF_AVCR @HZDR_Dresden @ARUBrno @GFU_AVCR @latrobe @AarhusUni @aru_praha @UniKarlova

Looking for a motivated PhD student to model oyster-salt marsh interactions in coastal bays starting this fall @LSU_CEE ! Please share widely! Competitive stipend and great opportunities to collaborate across deps and institutions! I encourage underrepresented groups to apply!

Thanks to my supervisors @kalaharidave @durcanjulie @SLBurrough @ashparton and @seahaCDT @oxfordgeography for the opportunity to undertake this research.

Fan data are often noisy, but taking into account depositional context and integrating multiple sites across a landscape helps refine their use as important terrestrial archives of Quaternary environmental change. Important in drylands often lacking high resolution proxies...

We also found evidence of depositional events during more arid periods, however sedimentary structures typically indicated flashier flow regimes as opposed to the large conglomerate deposits and bioturbated floodplains typically dating to wetter times...

Fans preserve older records than lakes in the region (sediments from which typically don't survive periods of intense aridity). They also record more periods of higher rainfall that are expected from Arabian Sea marine cores but are not captured in the region's speleothem...

Results show that Hajar alluvial systems provide long and sensitive records of increases in Indian Ocean Monsoon precipitation in line with precessional and eccentricity forcing over the last 400 ka...

We present luminescence ages from new sites across central and eastern alluvial fans in the Hajar Mountains, SE Arabia. Hierarchical clustering was then used to combine these new data with previous data for fan and lake deposition from the literature...

Our latest paper (and last from my PhD) is out now in Quaternary Science Reviews! A thread... #geomorphology #Arabia #quaternary authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S02…

Next instalment of cool tufa from Wadi Dabsa… Just out in QSR Humid phases on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula are consistent with the last two interglacials sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #tufa #cooltufa #UThdating #WadiDabsa @GeographyUOM @CQRRHUL @rhinglis @isotopesUK @DianaSahy

Save the date for NWLDW2024! We are excited to host the New World Luminescence Dating Workshop June 11-14, 2024 at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, NV! Visit dri.edu/labs/drill-nwl… for details and updates.

Interested in organising PGR events, seminars or workshops? Keen to get more involved in the BSG postgraduate community? Want to help represent PGRs more widely within the BSG? 🌍 Don't forget that you can join the Postgrad Forum Committee! Feel free to email/DM for more info!

An EXCELLENT piece of design from @TIBaxter (also starring @SamWoor as the 'inquisitive poster reader'). #BSG2023 #HeritageHabitats @oxfordgeography @OxRBL #biogeomorphology

Additional thanks to @cal_munday for letting me sleep in his spare room all week - 5 star review

Lastly, I couldn’t have done it without the support of my parents, sisters, family and friends. You have all contributed more than you know and I greatly appreciate it.

Excited to announce that I passed my thesis defence yesterday! Many people to thank in the thread below…