Room: 306 Craig Mair

Phone: 01248 382523

E-mail: d.g.huws@bangor.ac.uk

ResearchGate

I am a Reader (Teacher and Scholarship) in Marine Geophysics here at the School of Ocean Sciences. I graduated from the University of Leicester in 1986 with a degree in Geology with Geophysics and went on from there to complete the Masters course in Marine Geotechnics at SOS. After this, I worked as a Research Assistant on two EU funded research projects and resulting from this was my PhD thesis entitled, 'Measurement and analysis of shear wave velocity in marine sediments', completed in 1992. I was then appointed as a Research Officer in Marine Geophysics, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and my present position in 2022. 

• PhD: Shear Waves in Marine Sediments
  University of Wales, Bangor, 1992
• MSc: Marine Geotechnics
  University of Wales, Bangor, 1988
• BSc: Geology and Geophysics
  University of Leicester, 1986

I teach across all Levels, generally in geosience and specifically in marine geophysics.

I offer practical research projects in relation to the use of geophysics in offshore engineering and palaeoclimate studies.

I am Programme Director for the MSc in Applied Marine Geoscience and MSci in Geological Oceanography.

As School Director of Teaching and Learning, I'm also interested in ensuring that all programme curricula are up-to-date and well-delivered by staff.  I coordinate the activies of our Teaching and Scholarship staff and ensure that both they and the Teaching and Research staff are well supported in delivering their teaching.  I also have a role in Quality Assurance across our modules and programmes.

I have a 0.2 role as Learning and Teaching Development Leader (Assessment and Feedback) across the University, as part of the Centre of the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT). This involves coordinating attempts to facilitate review processes, contributing to CPD sessions, working with the Students' Union and the Quality Enhancement Unit, running and University's Module Evaluation survey etc.

Research Interests

My current research interests are focussed around the use of high resolution geophysical methods with applications in three fields: (i) tropical palaeo-climate studies in relation to hominin evolution and migration; (ii) marine archaeological studies and (iii) marine engineering applications.  Specifically, I have been involved in a number of studies based in northern Ethiopia that have investigated the inter-relationship between past climates and the migratory history of early homo sapiens; and more recently a study in southern Ethiopia that broadens the link to also include deeper-time evolutionary events and culture developments.  I’m also interested in palaeoenvironmenal reconstruction more broadly, but in the context of submerged landscapes e.g. working around the Orkney Isles.  Previous to this, and still with an interest, my research was aimed at bridging the gap between the geophysical and geotechnical properties of marine sediments – specifically by using shear waves and Love waves in the marine environment.

Research Groups

• Earth System Science and Climate Change

2018

• Cyhoeddwyd150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa
  Lamb, H., Bates, R., Bryant, C., Davies, S., Huws, D., Marshall, M. & Roberts, H., 18 Ion 2018, Yn: Scientific Reports. 8, 1077.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydGenerating long chronologies for lacustrine sediments using luminescence dating: a 250,000 year record from Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  Roberts, H., Bryant, C., Huws, D. & Lamb, H., 15 Rhag 2018, Yn: Quaternary Science Reviews. 202, t. 66-77
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2017

• CyhoeddwydTuning, Interference and False Shallow Gas Signatures in Geohazard Interpretations: Beyond the 'λ/4' Rule
  Barret, B., Huws, D., Booth, A., Wergeland, O. & Green, M., Awst 2017, Yn: Near-surface Geophysics . 15, 4, t. 359-366
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2016

• CyhoeddwydThe Hominin sites and Palaeolakes Drilling Project: testing hypotheses of climate-driven human evolution and dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia
  Lamb, H., Cohen, A., Schabitz, F., Asrat, A., Bates, R., Davies, S., Deino, A., Forster, V., Grove, M., Huws, D., Junginger, A., Konrad-Schmolke, M., Lane, C., Leng, M., Mark, D., Martin-Jones, E., Pearce, N., Pearson, E., Ramsey, C., Raub, T., Rethemeyer, J., Roberts, H., Rogass, C., Trauth, M., Viehberg, F., Wagner, B. & Woldegabriel, G., 6 Meh 2016, Yn: Quaternary International. 404, Part B, t. 209 1 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Rhifyn Arbennig › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydThe environmental context of the Neolithic monuments on the Brodgar Isthmus, Mainland, Orkney
  Bates, R., Bates, M., Dawson, S., Huws, D., Whittaker, J. E. & Wickham-Jones, C. R., 1 Meh 2016, Yn: Journal of Archaeological Science. 7, t. 394-407
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2015

• CyhoeddwydClimatic variability, plasticity, and dispersal: A case study from Lake Tana, Ethiopia
  Grove, M., Lamb, H., Roberts, H., Davies, S., Marshall, M., Bates, R. & Huws, D. G., 19 Hyd 2015, Yn: Journal of Human Evolution. 87, t. 42-47
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydGeological settings and seafloor morphodynamic evolution linked to methane seepage
  Van Landeghem, K. J., Niemann, H., Steinle, L. I., O'Reilly, S. S., Huws, D. G. & Croker, P. F., 28 Ebr 2015, Yn: Geo-Marine Letters. 35, 4, t. 289-304
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2012

• CyhoeddwydA Multi-disciplinary Approach to the Archaeological Investigation of a Bedrock-Dominated Shallow-Marine Landscape: An example from the Bay of Firth, Orkney, UK
  Bates, M., Nayling, N., Bates, R., Dawson, S., Huws, D. & wickham-jones, C. R., 2 Hyd 2012, Yn: The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. 42, 1, t. 24 20 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2011

• CyhoeddwydLate Devensian and holocene relative sea-level change in North Wales, UK.
  Roberts, M. J., Scourse, J. D., Bennell, J. D., Huws, D. G., Jago, C. F. & Long, B. T., 1 Chwef 2011, Yn: Quaternary Science. 26, 2, t. 141-155
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydLate Pleistocene and Holocene drought events at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile
  Marshall, M. H., Lamb, H. F., Huws, D. G., Davies, S. J., Bates, R., Bloemendal, J., Boyle, J., Lengb, M. J., Umer, M. & Bryant, C., 1 Awst 2011, Yn: Global and Planetary Change. 78, 3-4, t. 147-161
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2005

• CyhoeddwydThe estimation of shear-wave statics using in situ measurements in marine near-surface sediments.
  Winsborrow, G., Huws, D. G. & Muyzert, E., 1 Gorff 2005, Yn: Geophysical Prospecting. 53, 4, t. 557-577
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2003

• CyhoeddwydAcquisition and inversion of Love wave data to measure the lateral variability of geo-acoustic properties of marine sediments.
  Winsborrow, G., Huws, D. G. & Muyzert, E., 1 Tach 2003, Yn: Journal of Applied Geophysics. 54, 1-2, t. 71-84
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2002

• CyhoeddwydHolocene evolution of seasonal stratification in the Celtic Sea: refined age model, mixing depths and foraminiferal stratigraphy.
  Scourse, J. D., Austin, W. E., Long, B. T., Assinder, D. J. & Huws, D., 30 Tach 2002, Yn: Marine Geology. 191, 3-4, t. 119-145
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydSurficial seabed sediment properties derived from seismic profiler responses.
  Davis, A., Haynes, R., Bennell, J. & Huws, D. G., 10 Ebr 2002, Yn: Marine Geology. 182, 1-2, t. 209-223
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2001

• CyhoeddwydA nondestructive technique for predicting the in situ void ratio for marine sediments.
  Huws, D., Davis, A. & Pryah, J. R., 1 Hyd 2001, Yn: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 18, 4, t. 333-346
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
• CyhoeddwydAssessing the validity of seismo-acoustic predictor equations for obtaining seabed and sub-surface sediemnt physical properties
  Schnack-Fredrichsen, A., Davis, A., Bennell, J. D. & Huws, D., 1 Hyd 2001, Yn: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 19, 4, t. 221-243
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

1989

• CyhoeddwydDevelopment of a seafloor geophysical sledge
  Davis, A., Bennell, J., Huws, D. & Thomas, D., 31 Ion 1989, Yn: Marine Georesources and Geotechnology. 8, 2, t. 99-109 10 t.
  Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

• A 500,000-year environmental record from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia

  01/11/2013 – 12/01/2017 (Wedi gorffen)

• Countryside Council for Wales, PhD Student Bursary

  01/05/2010 – 30/09/2010 (Wedi gorffen)

• M.Sc. bursary for Applied Marine Geoscience M. Sc. programme

  01/10/2009 – 30/09/2010 (Wedi gorffen)