Photo: Professor Contact info Email: dleigh@uga.edu Office: Geography-Geology Bldg, 210 Field Street, Athens, Georgia 30602, rm. 211 Office Hours: 12:30-1:30 Tuesday and Thursday CV: Leigh_vita_Feb_2021.pdf (459.13 KB) As a geomorphologist with interests in fluvial, eolian, hillslope, and soil systems, my overarching research themes examine late Quaternary climate changes and human impacts throughout the Holocene, including modern timescales. I specialize in Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology, paleofloods, geoarchaeology with emphasis on site formation processes, as well as geomorphic influences on stream habitat and aquatic ecology. I have extensive field experience in the southeastern and midwestern USA, highlands of south-central Mexico, western Argentina and Uruguay, and the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France. I am a professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Geomorphology Laboratory. My research interests include close collaboration with faculty and students in UGA units of Geology, Ecology, Hydrology, Archaeology/Anthropology, and Soil Science. Most of my former students have taken earth-science jobs in academia or in the public and private sectors of environmental assessment and protection. I am currently recruiting students with interests in Quaternary environmental change, geoarchaeology, paleoflood analysis, modern river channel change and aquatic habitat, and geomorphic consequences of dam removal. Education Education: Ph.D. (1991) University of Wisconsin M.S. (1988) University of Wisconsin B.S. (1982) University of Colorado Of Note Of note: 1995 UGA Michael Award for Excellence in Research 2008 Fulbright Award from the U.S. Department of State 2008 G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphic Research from the American Association of Geographers 2018 Outstanding Faculty Award from the UGA Disability Resource Center 2020 Fellow of the Geological Society of America Course Instruction Courses Regularly Taught: GEOG 4/6020 GEOG 3010 GEOG 1113 GEOG 8020 Research Selected Publications: Recent Journal Articles: 2015: (Leigh, D.S., Gragson, T.L, Coughlan, M.R.) Pedogenic effects of mid- to late-Holocene conversion of forests to pastures in the French western Pyrenees. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 59, 225-245. 2015: (Wang, L. and Leigh, D.S.) Anthropic signatures in alluvium of the Upper Little Tennessee River valley, Southern Blue Ridge Mountains, USA, Anthropocene 11, 35-47. 2016: (Leigh, D.S., Gragson, T.L, Coughlan, M.R.) Colluvial legacies of millennial landscape change on individual hillsides, place-based investigation in the western Pyrenees Mountains. Quaternary International 402, 61-71. 2018: (Leigh, D.S.) Vertical accretion sand proxies of gaged floods along the upper Little Tennessee River, Blue Ridge Mountains, USA, Sedimentary Geology, 364, 342-350. (