Newcastle University

Qualifications

MSc Physical Geography, Free University (VU) Amsterdam, Netherlands (1998).
PhD University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2004).

Previous Positions

2005-2010 Lecturer in Mediterranean Geoarchaeology, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University

2004-2005 British Academy Reckitt Travelling Fellow, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

2003-2004 Post-doctoral Research Associate, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Part of the ALSF-funded Till-Tweed geoarchaeology project.

Research Interests

My main research interests concern (Fluvial) Geomorphology and Alluvial Geoarchaeology. I am particularly interested in the influence of Late Quaternary human, climate and tectonic changes on Mediterranean landscape development and fluvial behaviour. My research revolves around two broad themes: i) Impact of Late Quaternary climate and land-use changes on Mediterranean fluvial activity and denudation rates/styles and ii) Land-atmosphere-ocean linkages in the Mediterranean.

Current Work

I am currently involved in a multi-disciplinary research project in the Gediz valley (W Turkey), focussing on Quaternary landscape development and palaeoenvironments. Furthermore, ongoing research in Greece aims to relate the fluvial sediment-landform record to global climate change through linkages with the marine record.

Funding

The British Academy Reckitt Travelling Fellowship in Archaeology, 2004-2005 (£18,525)

Undergraduate Teaching

Stage 1
GEO1005: Environmental issues
GEO1012: Introduction to Earth Sciences

Stage 2
GEO2048: Field and laboratory techniques in Physical Geography
GEO2101: Physical Geography fieldcourse II: Greece

• Maddy D, Demir T, Veldkamp A, Bridgland DR, Stemerdink C, van der Schriek T, Schreve D. The obliquity-controlled early pleistocene terrace sequence of the Gediz river, western Turkey : A revised correlation and chronology. Journal of Geological Society of London 2012, 169(1), 67-82.
• Van Der Schriek T, Passmore D, Stevenson AC, Rolão J. The palaeogeography of Mesolithic settlement-subsistence and shell midden formation in the Muge valley, Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal. The Holocene 2007, 17(3), 369-385.
• van der Schriek T, Passmore D, Rolão J, Stevenson AC. Estuarine-fluvial floodplain formation in the Holocene Lower Tagus valley (Central Portugal) and implications for Quaternary fluvial system evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26(22-24), 2937-2957.
• van der Schriek T, Passmore D, Franco Mugica F, Stevenson AC, Boomer I, Rolão J. Holocene palaeoecology and floodplain evolution of the Muge tributary, Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal. Quaternary International 2008, 189(1), 135-151.
• Van Der Schriek T, Passmore DG, Stevenson AC, Rolão J. The influence of environmental change on Mesolithic settlement-subsistence and shell midden formation along the Lower Tagus River, Portugal. In: Milner, Nicky; Craig, Oliver E.; Bailey, Geoffrey N., ed. Shell middens in Atlantic Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2007, pp. 165-182.
• Maddy D, Demir T, Bridgland D, Veldkamp A, Stemerdink C, van der Schriek T, Westaway R. An obliquity-controlled Early Pleistocene river terrace record from Western Turkey?. Quaternary Research 2005, 63(3), 339-346.
• Passmore D, Waddington C, Van Der Schriek T. Enhancing the evaluation and management of river valley archaeology: geoarchaeology in the Till-Tweed catchment, northern England. Archaeological Prospection 2006. , 13(4), 269-281.
• Passmore DG, van der Schriek T, Waddington C. Late Quaternary valley floor environments in the River Till catchment, Northumberland, UK. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 2012. Submitted.
• Maddy D, Schreve D, Demir T, Veldkamp A, Stemerdink C, van der Schriek T. The earliest humans in Turkey?. Quaternary Research 2012. In Preparation.
• Passmore DG, Waddington C, vanderSchriek T, Davis B, Tetlow E, Smith D, Cotton J. Geoarchaeology and archaeological landscapes in the River Till valley, northern England. In: Brown, A.G., Basell, L.S., Butzer, K.W, ed. Geoarchaeology, Climate Change, Sustainability. Boulder, Colorado, USA: Geological Society of America, 2011, pp.117-134.
• van der Schriek T, Passmore DG, Stevenson AC, Boomer I, Mugica EF, Rolao J. The geoarchaeology of Mesolithic settlement and subsistence in the Muge valley, Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal. In: Alluvial Archaeology in Europe: Conference on the Alluvial Archaeology of North-West Europe and the Mediterranean. 2003, Leeds, UK: Taylor & Francis.