Publications

Peer-reviewed academic articles:

Zondervan J.R., Stokes M., Boulton S.J., Telfer M.W., Mather A.E., Belfoul M.A. Lithological controls on the timing of strath terrace staircase formation in a collisional mountain belt. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2024. [link]

McLeod J.S., Whittaker A.C., Bell R.E., Hampson G.J., Watkins S.E., Brooke S.A.S., Rezwan N., Hook J., Zondervan J.R., Ganti V., Lyster S.J. Landscapes on the edge: River intermittency in a warming world. Geology, 2024. [link]

Zondervan J.R., Hilton R.G, Dellinger M., Clubb F., Roylands T., Ogric M. Rock organic carbon oxidation CO2 release offsets silicate weathering sink. Nature, 2023. [link]

Zondervan J.R., Stokes M., Mather A.E., Telfer M.W., Boulton S.J., Buylaert J.P., Jain M., Murray A.S., Belfoul M.A. Constraining a punctuated river incision model for Quaternary strath terrace formation. Geomorphology, 2022. [link]

Sales R., McMichael C., Flantua S., Hagemans K., Zondervan J.R., González-Arango C., Church W., Bush M. Head in the clouds: pre-Columbian human occupation of Andean forests. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.,  2022. [link]

Zondervan J.R., Stokes M., Boulton S.J., Telfer M.W., Mather A.E. Rock strength and structural controls on fluvial erodibility: implications for drainage divide mobility in a collisional mountain belt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020. [link]

Zondervan J.R., Whittaker A.C., Bell R.E., Watkins S.E., Brooke S.A.S., Hann M.G. New constraints on bedrock erodibility and landscape response times upstream of an active fault. Geomorphology, 2020. [link]

Academic articles in progress:

Wadham J.l., Lamarche-Gagnon G., Arndt S., Goldberg D., Hawkings J., Hendry K., Hilton R.G., Hugelius G., Monteiro F., Ramage J., Winsborrow M., Zondervan J.R., Hauck J., Gregor L. RECCAP2 - Polar Ice Sheets Chapter: Global carbon cycles associated with ice sheets from ice-to-ocean in a warming world. In review Biogeosciences.

Zondervan JR, Cantón Y, Rodríguez-Caballero E, Read DS, Newbold LK, Goodall T. Topographical and geological control on biocrust microbiomes. In prep Earth Surf. Proc. Land.

Zondervan J.R., Adams B.A., Pappas O., Mitchell T., Meredith P. Rock strength and erodibility: rock mechanics, topographic analysis and numerical modelling. In prep Earth Surface Dynamics.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS

2024 - Zondervan J.R. When Earth Systems Meet with Synbio to Solve Climate Challenges. Science Spotlights, ValleyDAO (invited) [link]

2023 - Zondervan J.R. (seminar). Is Mountain Weathering a Source or Sink of CO₂? Life's Role in Earth's Thermostat. Global Geophysics Seminars, UCL; ETH Zürich (invited)

2023 - Zondervan J.R. (seminar). From rock erosion to CO₂ emission and engineering soils: a systems geomorphology approach to the Anthropocene. Imperial College London (invited)

2023 - Zondervan JR, Adams B, Mohamud A, Gilbertson M. Water, rock and mountains: dissecting fluvial erodibility in the stream power model. EGU General Assembly

2023 - McLeod JS, Whittaker AC, Bell RE, Hampson GJ, Watkins SE, Brooke SAS, Rezwan N, Hook J, Zondervan JR. Landscapes on the edge: solving the river intermittency puzzle. EGU General Assembly

2022 - Zondervan JR, Cantón Y, Rodríguez-Caballero E, Read DS, Newbold LK, Goodall T. Topographical and geological control on biocrust microbiomes. AGU Fall Meeting 

2022 - Zondervan JR, Adams BA, Mohamud A, Gilbertson M. Combined field and novel laboratory constraints on river bedrock erodibility. AGU Fall Meeting 

2022 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE, Telfer MW. How much do fractures matter? Erodibility as a function of lithology. Penrose Conference

2022 - Zondervan J.R. (seminar). Is Mountain Weathering a Source or Sink of CO₂? GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam (invited)

2022 - Zondervan JR, Hilton GH, Clubb F, Dellinger M, Roylands T, Ogrič M. Mountains as a source of CO2: a global model of erosion, weathering and fossil organic carbon oxidation. EGU General Assembly (invited)

2022 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Mather AE, Telfer MW, Boulton SJ, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A. Punctuated river incision: implications for deriving climate signals, river incision and rock uplift rates from Quaternary strath terraces. EGU General Assembly

THESES/DISSERTATIONS

2021 - Zondervan JR. Lithological and climatic controls on fluvial landscape evolution of a post-orogenic dryland mountain belt. PhD Thesis, University of Plymouth. [link]

2017 - Zondervan JR. Landscape response to active faulting, southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece. MSci Thesis, Imperial College

2016  - Zondervan JR. Palynology of Lake George - A review of palynology, Lake George and regional & global Quaternary comparisons and the start of palynological analysis of a new Lake George core. The Australian National University

2016 - Zondervan JR, 2016. Preserved fossil coral heads as indicators of Holocene high sea level on One Tree Island. The Australian National University 

2015 - Zondervan JR. Companion to The Geological Map of The Southern Barrême Basin. Imperial College

ONLINE

2019 - Zondervan JR. Geoscience as a tool in the twenty-first century. Impakter [link]

2018 - Zondervan JR. Dealing with risk – Are we ready to deal with high-impact, complex and uncertain science? Impakter [link]

2018 - Zondervan JR. Millennial Scientists in a Segregating World - The Role of Science in Shaping Society. Impakter [link]

2016 - Zondervan JR. Pollen - Collecting Tiny Pieces of Story. [link]

SOFTWARE

Zondervan JR (2020) corr_lum_dose_rate, Github [link]

Zondervan JR (2019) Knickretreat, Github [link]

ALL OTHER CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

2021 - Zondervan JR, Hilton GH, Dellinger M, Clubb F, Roylands T, Ogrič M. A global model of rock organic carbon weathering and CO2 emissions. AGU Fall Meeting

2021 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Telfer MW, Mather AE. Lithology, rock strength and discontinuity controls on fluvial erodibility. AGU Fall Meeting

2021 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Mather AE, Telfer MW, Boulton SJ, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A. Rates of uplift, incision and base-level fall: a punctuated model for strath terrace formation. Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting

2021 - Zondervan JR, Hilton GH, Dellinger M, Clubb F, Roylands T, Ogrič M. Eroding mountains: a global model of rock organic carbon weathering and CO2 emissions. Mid-European Geomorphology Meeting

2021 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Mather AE, Telfer MW, Boulton SJ, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A. A punctuated river incision model for Quaternary strath terrace formation. Fluvial Archives Group Meeting 

2021 - Zondervan JR (seminar). Lithology - No Single Fact in Isolation. Durham University 

2020 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Telfer MW, Boulton SJ, Mather AE, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A, Hann MG, Taleb N. Asynchronous strath terrace formation in a collisional mountain belt. AGU Fall Meeting

2020 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Telfer MW, Boulton SJ, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A, Mather AE, Taleb N, Hann MG. Eccentricity forcing of Saharan climate drives fluvial strath terrace formation in the High Atlas. EGU General Assembly 

2019 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE, Telfer M, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A, Hann MG, Taleb N. Changes in mountain valley widening, river incision and sediment transport in North-West Africa during the last 180 ka of Saharan climate. AGU Fall Meeting

2019 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE, Telfer M, Buylaert JP, Jain M, Murray AS, Belfoul A, Hann MG, Taleb N. A North-West African river terrace record spanning 180 ka of Saharan Climate, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Earth Sciences Research Conference, University of Plymouth

2019 - Stokes M, Zondervan JR, Mather AE, Boulton SJ, Telfer MW & Belfoul A. Quaternary river terrace-climate relationships on the NW Sahara Desert margin ((Morocco). Congress of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA)

2018 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE & Telfer MW. Lithological controls on drainage divide dynamics. Earth Sciences Research Conference, University of Plymouth

2018 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Jain M, Buylaert J-P, Telfer MW & Murray AS. Chronology for mountainous river terraces: OSL/IRSL and rock dating techniques applied to carbonate-rich terraces in the Atlas Mountains. UK Luminescence and ESR Dating Meeting

2018 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE & Telfer MW. Palaeo river long profile reconstruction in a fold-and-thrust belt: river terraces as archives of Quaternary incision and aggradation in the Atlas Mountains. Fluvial Archives Group Meeting

2018 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Boulton SJ, Mather AE & Telfer MW. Catchment changes in response to tectonics and climate: using river terraces and DEM data in the southern High Atlas Mountains (Morocco). Meeting of the Working Group on Sediment Generation

2018 - Zondervan JR. Geoscience in a rapidly changing world: what could go wrong? Geologists' Association Student Symposium

2017 - Zondervan JR, Whittaker AC, Bell RE, Watkins SE & Brooke SAS. Active normal faults and coupled landscape response: bedrock variability in the southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece. BSRG Annual General Meeting

2017 - Zondervan JR, Stokes M, Mather AE & Boulton SJ. Fluvial archives of NW African climate and tectonic evolution, Atlas Mountains, central Morocco. Earth Sciences Research Conference, University of Plymouth

2017 - Whittaker A, Boulton S, Kent E, Zondervan J, Hann M, Watkins S, Bell R & Brooke S. Evaluating the competing effects of lithology and sediment supply on the erosional dynamics of rivers crossing active faults. EGU General Assembly