Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
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To see the most recent activity go to https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sinclair/ Interaction between surface processes (erosion and sedimentation), mountain building and basin subsidence. The growth of topography in mountain ranges. Using numerical modelling to analyse the punctuated nature of surface uplift. Processes of long term erosion are measured using a range of low temperature thermochronometers, enabling us to question the forcings and response times of surface processes to climate and tectonics. The products of the erosional engine in the mountain belt are then studied as stratigraphy in surrounding basins. Analysis and modelling of the subsidence history of foreland basins. Understanding Mountain Belt/Foreland Basin systems using a range of approaches, which are also applied to issues of hydrocarbon prospectivity. Funding comes from research councils, science foundations and industry. Active field areas include the Alps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Balkans, Ladakh Himalaya and the Rockies.
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My research in a nutshell
In this video Hugh describes how the 2010 monsoon in the western Himalaya devastated fragile communities. His group used the geomorphic record of the storm to reconstruct its magnitude and distribution.
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A record of the transition from foreland to piggy-back basin from the western Churia Range in Central Nepal: Evidence from luminescence dating and geomorphology
Wahyudi, D. R., Sinclair, H. D., Mudd, S. M., Smedley, R. K. & Graf, E. L. S., 15 Jul 2025, In: Geomorphology. 481, p. 109779Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sediment aggradation rates in Himalayan rivers revealed through InSAR differential residual topographic phase
Huang, D. & Sinclair, H., 7 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Earth Surface Dynamcs.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sediment transport and flood risk: Impact of newly constructed embankments on river morphology and flood dynamics in Kathmandu, Nepal
Thapa, S., Sinclair, H., Creed, M., Borthwick, A., Watson, C. S. & Muthusamy, M., 22 Oct 2024, Water Resources Research, 60, 10, p. e2024WR037742.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Sounding out the river: Seismic and hydroacoustic monitoring of bedload transport
Matthews, B., Naylor, M., Sinclair, H., Black, A., Williams, R., Cuthill, C., Gervais, M., Dietze, M. & Smith, A., 30 Sept 2024, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 49, 12, p. 3840-3854Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Downstream rounding rate of pebbles in the Himalaya
Pokhrel, P., Attal, M., Sinclair, H., Mudd, S. & Naylor, M., 17 Apr 2024, In: Earth Surface Dynamcs. 12, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Keynote Speaker at EGU 2025 in the session: Natural hazards and sediment dynamics under environmental change
Thapa, S. (Keynote speaker), Sinclair, H. (Supervisor), Creed, M. J. (Supervisor), Borthwick, A. (Supervisor), Watson, C. S. (Contributor) & Muthusamy, M. (Contributor)
Apr 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Oral presentation - 39th IAHR World Congress 19–24 June 2022, Granada, Spain
Thapa, S. (Speaker), Creed, M. J. (Supervisor), Sinclair, H. (Supervisor), Mudd, S. (Supervisor), Attal, M. (Supervisor), Muthusamy, M. (Contributor) & Ghimire, B. N. (Supervisor)
19 Jun 2022 → 24 Jun 2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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How will rivers respond to reforestation?
Sinclair, H. (Assessor) & Naylor, M. (Assessor)
2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Oral Presentation – EGU General Assembly 2022
Thapa, S. (Speaker), Sinclair, H. (Supervisor), Creed, M. J. (Supervisor), Mudd, S. (Supervisor), Attal, M. (Supervisor), Borthwick, A. (Supervisor), Ghimire, B. N. (Supervisor) & Watson, C. S. (Contributor)
2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Oral presentation - AGU Fall Meeting 2022
Thapa, S. (Speaker), Sinclair, H. (Supervisor), Creed, M. (Supervisor), Mudd, S. (Supervisor), Attal, M. (Supervisor) & Ghimire, B. N. (Supervisor)
2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Sediment impacts on Kathmandu Floods
Sinclair, H. (Principal Investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/04/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
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Dynamic Risks for Cascading Himalayan Hazards
Sinclair, H. (Principal Investigator), Mudd, S. (Co-investigator) & Naylor, M. (Co-investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
15/02/24 → 14/02/28
Project: Research
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Post orogenic sediment flux to continental margins: Miocene erosion and sediment yield from the Pyrenees
Sinclair, H. (Principal Investigator)
National Center for Scientific Research, The
24/08/16 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Carbon dioxide sequestion capture and storage uk, scotland north sea enhanced oil recovery climate change
Sinclair, H. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/01 → …
Project: Research
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Datasets
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Sediment transport and flood risk: Impact of newly constructed embankments on river dynamics and flooding in Kathmandu, Nepal
Sinclair, H. (Creator), Creed, M. (Creator), Borthwick, A. (Creator), Watson, C. (Creator), Muthusamy, M. (Creator) & Thapa, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 22 Oct 2024
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7806
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Virtual urban testbed representing a Global South urban setting based on Nairobi, Kenya and Kathmandu, Nepal contexts
McCloskey, J. (Creator), Menteşe, E. Y. (Contributor), Cremen, G. (Creator), Gentile, R. (Creator), Galasso, C. (Creator), Filippi, M. E. (Creator), Jenkins, L. (Creator), Creed, M. (Creator), Watson, C. S. (Creator), Sinclair, H. (Creator), Pelling, M. (Creator) & Menteşe, E. Y. (Contributor), NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre, 2025
DOI: 10.5285/8b5834a5-ae8a-4f24-836c-16fab961aeb3, https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8b5834a5-ae8a-4f24-836c-16fab961aeb3
Dataset
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Downstream rounding rate of pebbles in the Himalaya
Mudd, S. (Creator), Sinclair, H. (Creator), Naylor, M. (Creator), Pokhrel, P. (Creator) & Attal, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 26 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7515
Dataset
Press/Media
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Top Viewed Article 2023 – in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Wiley In Research
Thapa, S., Sinclair, H., Creed, M. J., Mudd, S., Attal, M., Borthwick, A., Ghimire, B. N. & Watson, C. S.
1/04/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Shifting sands threaten flood-mitigation measures
Thapa, S., Sinclair, H., Creed, M., Borthwick, A., Watson, C. S. & Muthusamy, M.
26/11/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Featured in nature – News & Views article: Shifting sands threaten flood-mitigation measures.
Thapa, S., Sinclair, H., Creed, M., Borthwick, A., Watson, C. S. & Muthusamy, M.
26/11/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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English Research: The peak was 15 to 50 metres tall in the last 89,000 years due to a major cause
7/10/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Why Mount Everest is becoming taller? Scientists link it to a Himalayan river
2/10/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research