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Strength in diversity: Enhancing learning in vocationally-orientated, master's level courses (2008)
Journal Article
McEwen, L., Monk, J., Hay, I., Kneale, P., & King, H. (2008). Strength in diversity: Enhancing learning in vocationally-orientated, master's level courses. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 32(1), 101-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098260701731579

Postgraduate education in geography, especially at the Master's level, is undergoing significant changes in the developed world. There is an expansion of vocationally oriented degree programmes, increasing recruitment of international students, integ... Read More about Strength in diversity: Enhancing learning in vocationally-orientated, master's level courses.

'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands (2007)
Journal Article
McEwen, L. J., & Werritty, A. (2007). 'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 32(1), 66-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2007.00232.x

On 3 August 1829, north-east Scotland recorded one of the most severe catastrophic floods in modern UK history. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's An account of the great floods of August 1829 in the province of Moray and adjoining districts (1830) provides a... Read More about 'The Muckle Spate of 1829': The physical and societal impact of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish Highlands.

Use of multi-proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower River Tay, Scotland (2006)
Journal Article
Werritty, A., Paine, J. L., Macdonald, N., Rowan, J. S., & McEwen, L. J. (2006). Use of multi-proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower River Tay, Scotland. CATENA, 66(1-2), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2005.07.012

Proxy flood records from sediment stacks in floodplain palaeochannels provide an opportunity to extend short instrumental records and thus improve current estimates of flood risk. The 'Bloody Inches' (a meander cutoff on the lower River Tay, Scotland... Read More about Use of multi-proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower River Tay, Scotland.

Co-learning: Re-linking research and teaching in geography (2006)
Journal Article
Le Heron, R., Baker, R., & McEwen, L. (2006). Co-learning: Re-linking research and teaching in geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 30(1), 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098260500499659

What might geography in 'the universities' look like if geographers seriously confronted the growing dichotomy between research and teaching? This challenge goes to the heart of 'the university' as a site of learning. The authors argue that the globa... Read More about Co-learning: Re-linking research and teaching in geography.

Historical and pooled flood frequency analysis for the River Tay at Perth, Scotland (2006)
Journal Article
Macdonald, N., Werritty, A., Black, A. R., & McEwen, L. J. (2006). Historical and pooled flood frequency analysis for the River Tay at Perth, Scotland. Area, 38(1), 34-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00673.x

Improved estimates of UK flood risk during a period of increased climatic variability place challenges on existing methods that rely on short instrumental records. This paper examines the value of using historical data (both documentary and epigraphi... Read More about Historical and pooled flood frequency analysis for the River Tay at Perth, Scotland.

Flood seasonality and generating conditions in the Tay catchment, Scotland from 1200 to present (2006)
Journal Article
McEwen, L. J. (2006). Flood seasonality and generating conditions in the Tay catchment, Scotland from 1200 to present. Area, 38(1), 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00659.x

The new maximum recorded river flows in Scotland since 1988 have triggered widespread interest in whether floods are becoming more frequent and in the conditions that generate floods of different magnitudes and frequencies. There are questions about... Read More about Flood seasonality and generating conditions in the Tay catchment, Scotland from 1200 to present.

The muckle spate of 1829 - Reconstruction of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish highlands (2003)
Book Chapter
Werrity, A., & McEwen, L. (2003). The muckle spate of 1829 - Reconstruction of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish highlands. In V. R. Thornycroft, G. Benito, M. Barriendos, & C. Llasat (Eds.), Palaeofloods, Historical Floods and Climatic Variability: Applications in Flood Risk Assessment (Proceedings of the PHEFRA Workshop, Barcelona, 16-19th October, 2002) (125-130). Madrid: Centro de Ciencias Medioambientales

On August 3rd 1829 north-east Scotland recorded the most severe catastrophic flood in modern UK history. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder’s An account of the great floods of August 1829 in the province of Moray and adjoining districts (1830) provides a detail... Read More about The muckle spate of 1829 - Reconstruction of a catastrophic flood on the River Findhorn, Scottish highlands.

Flood warning, warning response and planning control issues associated with caravan parks: The April 1998 floods on the lower Avon floodplain, Midlands region, UK (2002)
Journal Article
McEwen, L., Hall, T., Hunt, J., Dempsey, M., & Harrison, M. (2002). Flood warning, warning response and planning control issues associated with caravan parks: The April 1998 floods on the lower Avon floodplain, Midlands region, UK. Applied Geography, 22(3), 271-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0143-6228%2802%2900008-5

This paper evaluates the inherent exposure of caravan parks on floodplains to flood risk and the vulnerability of residents in the aftermath of the April 1998 floods in the Midlands, UK. It considers flood warning dissemination and response, flood im... Read More about Flood warning, warning response and planning control issues associated with caravan parks: The April 1998 floods on the lower Avon floodplain, Midlands region, UK.

Holocene gorge excavation linked to boulder fan formation and frost weathering in a norwegian alpine periglaciofluvial system (2002)
Journal Article
McEwen, L., Matthews, J. A., Shakesby, R. A., & Berrisford, M. S. (2002). Holocene gorge excavation linked to boulder fan formation and frost weathering in a norwegian alpine periglaciofluvial system. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 34(3), 345-357

Landform-sediment-process assemblages associated with four gorges and their corresponding downstream boulder fans in the alpine periglaciofluvial system of the Storutla river, Jotunheimen, southern Norway, are described. The potential volume of frost... Read More about Holocene gorge excavation linked to boulder fan formation and frost weathering in a norwegian alpine periglaciofluvial system.