Dr Adam Dunajko
Teaching Associate
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Room number: | E12 |
| Telephone (internal): | 27976 | |
| Telephone (UK): | 0114 222 7976 | |
| Telephone (International): | +44 114 222 7976 | |
| Email: | A.Dunajko@Sheffield.ac.uk |
Adam received a BSc (First Class Honours) in Physical Geography from the University of Sheffield in 2005. He then worked as a policy advisor in the Civil Service and taught English in Japan, before returning to Sheffield to complete his PhD entitled "Mid- to Late-Quaternary evolution of the Wilderness barrier dunes, South Africa". During 2010 Adam held a temporary post as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Derby, before being appointed as a Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield for the 2011/12 academic year.
Research Interests
Landscape evolution of sandy coastlines, Quaternary palaeoenvironments, luminescence dating, sediment provenancing.
Current Research
My primary research interest is the evolution of coastal aeolian landscapes, and specifically the roles of sea-level change and sediment supply in modulating coastal aeolian activity. My research is underpinned by luminescence dating and geochemical sediment provenancing techniques. I am interested in developing luminescence protocols to permit dating of sediments beyond the age range of conventional procedures, and also in combining multiple methods of sediment provenance analysis to discriminate between sediments from geochemically-similar sources.
Teaching
My teaching experience spans a broad range of topics within physical geography and utilises lectures, field classes, small group tutorials and seminars. Major themes are driven by my research interests and include sediment dynamics, palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and the history of the Earth over geological timescales.
Adam teaches on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including:
GEO108 Earth's Changing Surface
GEO232 Dryland Geomorphology
GEO352 Geological HazardsGEO6601 Sources to Sinks
GEO6603 Environmental Process Fluxes
GEO6807 Understanding Environmental ChangeAll staff also engage in personal supervision and tutoring of individual students at all three undergraduate levels in the following modules:
GEO163 (Information & Communication Skills for Geographers)
GEO263 or GEO264 (Research Design in Human or Physical Geography)
GEO356 (Geographical Research Project)
Key Publications
- Andreucci, S., Bateman, M.D., Zucca, C., Kapur, S., Akşit, İ., Dunajko, A.C. and Pascucci, V. (2011, in press). Evidence of Saharan dust in upper Pleistocene reworked palaeosols of North-west Sardinia, Italy: palaeoenvironmental implications. Sedimentology.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01285.x - Bateman, M.D., Carr, A.S., Dunajko, A.C., Holmes, P.J., Roberts, D.L., McClaren, S.J., Bryant, R.G., Murray-Wallace, C.V., and Marker, M.E. (2011). The evolution of coastal barrier systems: A case study of the Middle-Late Pleistocene Wilderness barriers, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30(1-2), 63-81.
doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.10.003 - Carr, A.S., Boom, A., Dunajko, A.C., Bateman, M.D., Holmes, P.J., and Berrio, J.-C. (2010). New evidence for the age and palaeoecology of the Knysna Formation, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 113(3), 241-256.
doi:10.2113/gssajg.113.3.241 - Dunajko, A.C. and Bateman, M.D. (2010). Sediment provenance of the Wilderness barrier dunes, southern Cape coast, South Africa. Terra Nova, 22(6), 417-423.
doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2010.00960.x