Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current Research Interests
| Arid region hydrology, hillslope geomorphology, sediment transport processes, chemical weathering within soils, soil development, landsliding, landscape resoponse to transient tectonic and climatic forcing, and interactions between plants and geomorphology. |
My research in a nutshell
In this video Simon describes how most salt marsh plants live at elevations between high tide and mean tide, drowning when the marsh gets too low.
Education/Academic qualification
Environmental Engineering, Doctor in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Award Date: 1 Jun 2006
Geological Sciences, Master of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Award Date: 1 Dec 2001
Geology, Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Award Date: 1 Jun 1999
Keywords
- GB Physical geography
- QE Geology
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Controls on fluvial grain sizes in post-glacial landscapes
Towers, A., Attal, M., Mudd, S. & Clubb, F., 25 Nov 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Earth Surface Dynamcs.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Constraining the global variations in denudation rates associated with the last post-glacial transition
Godard, V., Attal, M. & Mudd, S., 13 Oct 2025, In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 50, 13, e70181.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing Captures Geometry and Slow-to-Fast Sliding Transition of the 2017 Mud Creek landslide
Handwerger, A. L., Lacroix, P., Bell, A., Booth, A. M., Huang, M.-H., Mudd, S., Bürgmann, R. & Fielding, E. J., 14 Aug 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 29831.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Interplay between saltmarsh carbon burial and lateral exchange in coastal wetlands: The role of biomorphodynamic feedback
Wang, Y., Zhou, Z., Yuan, J., Wang, A., Li, H., Chen, L., Bryan, K. R. & Mudd, S., 22 Jul 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Limnology and Oceanography.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Invited talk at the 2nd International Conference on Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction (SIMR), Chengdu, China
Attal, M. (Invited speaker), Mudd, S. (Contributor), Gan, B.-R. (Contributor), Zhang, W. (Contributor) & Zhou, J.-W. (Contributor)
13 Sept 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Invited talk at the State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, Beijing, China
Attal, M. (Invited speaker) & Mudd, S. (Invited speaker)
12 Jun 2025Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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British Society for Geomorphology Annual Meeting
Attal, M. (Organiser) & Mudd, S. (Organiser)
2 Sept 2023 → 6 Sept 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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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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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
Prizes
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Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists
Mudd, S. (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Mudd, S. (Recipient), 3 Mar 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
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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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How can machine learning and satellite data help with reducing costs in natural capital baselining and natural flood management?
Sell, T. (Principal Investigator), Moulds, S. (Co-investigator) & Mudd, S. (Co-investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/24 → 31/10/24
Project: Research
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Global Lidar Altimetry Mission – Pre-Phase A
Hancock, S. (Principal Investigator), Elvira Arregui, V. (Co-investigator) & Mudd, S. (Co-investigator)
1/04/23 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
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Geometric Model for Local Topography, Phase 5
Mudd, S. (Principal Investigator)
National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA)
1/04/23 → 30/04/23
Project: Research
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Seismic Relief: Living with active tectonics and cascading geomorphic events
Mudd, S. (Principal Investigator)
31/03/23 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
Datasets
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Catchment-Averaged Erosion Rates Reveal Signals of Divide Migration and Drainage Capture - Datasets
Attal, M. (Creator), Mudd, S. (Creator), Castillo, M. (Creator) & Hoskins, A. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 15 Mar 2024
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7696
Dataset
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A nondimensional relief framework: data
Mudd, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 6 Apr 2016
DOI: 10.7488/b7430cc9-ce78-4ec3-9b37-00d07bca8a07, http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/1953
Dataset
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[CODE] lsdfailtools
Gailleton, B. (Creator), Ruiz Sanchez-Oro, M. (Creator), Goodwin, G. C. H. (Creator), Kinnear, L. (Creator) & Mudd, S. M. (Creator), Zenodo, 29 Apr 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4727515, https://github.com/LSDtopotools/lsdfailtools/tree/0.1
Dataset
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Compilation of concavity index calculations
Gailleton, B. (Creator), Mudd, S. M. (Creator), Clubb, F. J. (Creator), Grieves, S. W. D. (Creator) & Hurst, M. D. (Creator), Zenodo, 25 Aug 2021
Dataset
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Topographic Response to Horizontal Advection in Normal Fault-Bound Mountain Ranges
Hoskins, A. (Creator), Mudd, S. (Creator), Attal, M. (Creator) & Castillo, M. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 20 Feb 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3809
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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Prof Simon Mudd comments in the Nature podcast: capturing carbon on the coast
6/03/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Dr Simon Mudd warns of climate change impact on salt marshes
30/09/12
4 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Simon Mudd looks at effect of climate change on salt marshes
27/09/12
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Martin Hurst examines links between curvature of hills and rates of tectonic uplift
27/08/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research