Professor Jim Best will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of BOBÌåÓýµÇ¼ÍøÖ·_Å·±¦ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøƽ̨-APP|ÏÂÔØ from 2014 - 2017.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Professor Jim Best, Department of Geology, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Professor Stephen Darby, Geography & the Environment

Aims of the collaboration

To build on collaboration between research groups at BOBÌåÓýµÇ¼ÍøÖ·_Å·±¦ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøƽ̨-APP|ÏÂÔØ and Illinois in particular:

• to increase research into the morphological and sedimentological dynamics of monsoon-affected rivers.
• to develop the application of Parametric Echo-Sounding (PES) imaging techniques to studies of sequence stratigraphy in Cambodia
• to carry out studies of channel migration on major rivers such as the Mekong.

Fellowship activities in 2014

Joint fieldwork in Cambodia, October - November 2014

Fellowship activities in 2015

First Fellowship visit to BOBÌåÓýµÇ¼ÍøÖ·_Å·±¦ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøƽ̨-APP|ÏÂÔØ, January 2015; joint project meeting to discuss fieldwork results

Further collaborative fieldwork in Cambodia.

Second visit to BOBÌåÓýµÇ¼ÍøÖ·_Å·±¦ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøƽ̨-APP|ÏÂÔØ, May - June 2015:? Public lecture:? Big Rivers: Dilemmas of the Past, Present and Future