Sarah Boulton

Dr Sarah Boulton - (S. J. Boulton)

Job title: Lecturer in Remote Sensing in Geodynamics, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Postal address: Room 101, Fitzroy, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752584762
Email: sarah.boulton@plymouth.ac.uk

Role

I teach on the following modules:

EAR114 - Introducing geological maps and remote sensing

EAR115 - Introductory fieldwork skills

EAR211 - Geospatial Techniques

EOE3111 - Geoscience Trends and Applications

and I am the module leader for:

EAR114 - Introducing geological maps and remote sensing

EOE3111 - Geoscience Trends and Applications

In addition to these modules, I am involved in fieldwork, including this year:

EAR115/116/117 Weymouth Introductory fieldtrip and the St. Ives & Western Cornwall trip (for which I am the field trip leader)
EAR216/217 - Mapping training, Ainsa, Spainish Pyrenees
EOE3001 - Research Project
GLY5206 - Masters level Cyprus trip.

Furthermore I teach on the Environmental Science module:

ENVS101 - Environmental techniques

Qualifications & background
01/10/2007-01/04/2007 - Post-graduate certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (university of Plymouth).

01/01/2006 - present; Lecturer in Remote Sensing in Geodynamics, University of Plymouth.

01/10/2002-14/10/2005; Ph.D research at the University of Edinburgh. Thesis title ' Tectonic-Sedimentary evolution of the Cenozoic Hatay Graben, South Central Turkey'.
Graduated 20/06/2006.

1998-2002; M.Sci Geology - 1st Class (honours) from University College, London.

Professional membership
Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Member of the British Geomorphological Research Group
Member of the American Geophysical Union

Roles on external bodies
I am the University representative for the Geological Society, London, and sit on the committee of the South West regional group of the Geological Society.

Research interests
I am primarily interested in the Cenozoic (Miocene to present day) tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean region. To date my research has focussed on the Hatay Graben in Southern Turkey, part of the Dead Sea Fault Zone/East Anatolian Fault Zone system, using multidisciplinary techniques including sedimentology, structural analyses and geomorphology to investigate the evolution of this area. I am currently also interested in the adjacent Karasu Rift and Gharb Rift areas and their recent geological evolution.

Other interests include the geomorphology and geoarcheology of the Eastern Mediterranean and I have a general interest in the formation and development of major strike-slip fault zones worldwide.

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Earth Sciences (CRES)
Geodynamics and Palaeomagnetism

Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Dr Sara Hayes (02/09/2011) - Volcanic Risk Assessments: Integrating Hazard and Social Vulnerability Analysis

Grants & contracts
March 2010 - Awarded £650 from the Garwood Fund of the Geological Society of London.

August 2009 - Awarded £1325 from the Experiential Learning CETL (UoP) to attend a professional development course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (Portland, Oregon, 2009).

July 2009 - Awarded €9000 from the DARIUS programme as a co-investigator. Project title 'Transition from passive margin to collision: Tectonic development of the Arabian continental margin in SE Turkey. Project leader: Prof. Alastair Robertson (University of Edinburgh).

1st April 2009 - 1st April 2010 - Awarded £11,193 from the National Geographic as a co-investigator. Project title 'Patterns and rates of uplift driven fluvial incision within the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains of NW Africa'. Project leader: Dr Martin Stokes (University of Plymouth).

May 2008 - Awarded £1400 from the Nuffield Foundation (PI) to employ Stefanie Honeywill for 2 months on the project 'Reconstructions of the Palaeoenvironmental changes over the Miocene-Pliocene boundary in the Hatay Graben, Southern Turkey'.

July 2006 - Awarded £4970 from the Royal Society Research Grants Scheme (PI). Project title 'Timing and Development of the northern Dead Sea Fault Zone (Karasu Rift), Southern Turkey' .

May 2006 - Awarded £200 from the British Geomorphological Research Group (PI). Project title ' Tectonic geomorphology in an area of active strike-slip faulting: The Hatay Graben, Turkey' .

Chapters

Boulton, SJ., Robertson, AHF. & Unlugenc, UC. (2006) 'Tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Cenozoic Hatay Graben, Southern Turkey: a two-phase model for graben formation' in Robertson AHF,Mountrakis D (ed.) Tectonic Development of the Eastern Mediterranean Region The Geological Society, London pp 613 - 634

Boulton, SJ. 'Tectonic development of the southern Karasu Valley, Turkey: successive structural events during basin formation.' in Robertson AHF,Unlugenc U (ed.) Geological Development of the Anatolian Continent Geological Society, London

Conference Papers

Boulton, SJ. & Stewart, IS. (2011) 'Holocene Coastal Notches in the Mediterranean: Palaeoseismic or Palaeoclimatic indicators?' 2nd INQUA/IGCP 567 International workshop on Active tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering. Corinth, Greece 19/09/2011 - 24/09/2011

Boulton, SJ., Stokes, M., Mather, A., Belfoul, A. & Faik, F. (2011) 'Fluvial geomorphology of the Dades River, Morocco: Implications forfault activity along the Southern Atlas Fault' European Geosciences Union AGM 2011. Vienna p 4606

Whittaker, AC. & Boulton, SJ. (2011) 'How fast do landscapes respond to active faulting?' European Geosciences Union AGM 2011. Vienna p 3477

Whittaker, AC., Boulton, SJ. & Attal, M. (2010) 'How fast do landscapesrespond to active faulting?' American Geophysical Fall Meeting 2010. San Francisco 13/12/2010 - 17/12/2010 p EP44A-01

Boulton, SJ. 'Miocene to recent sedimentary and structural evolution of the southern Karasu Rift (northern Dead Sea Fault), Southern Turkey' European Geosciences Union AGM 2008. Vienna p 00194

Boulton, SJ. 'New insights into the northern Dead Sea Fault Zone (Karasu Rift and Hatay Graben), Southern Turkey’ Eos Transactions' American Geophysical Fall Meeting 2007. San Francisco p T42B-02

Boulton, SJ. & Whittaker, AC. 'Quantifying the slip-rates, spatial distribution and evolution of active normal faults from geomorphic analysis: Field examples from anoblique-extensional graben, Southern Turkey.' European Geosciences Union AGM 2009. Vienna p 3647

Boulton, SJ. 'Record of Cenozoic sedimentation from the Amanos Mountains, Southern Turkey: implications for the inception and evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision' European Geosciences Union AGM 2009. Vienna p 5675

ten Veen, JH., Alcicek, MC., Boulton, SJ. & Ozkul, M. 'The role of the Fethiye-Burdur fault zone in the neotectonic evolution of SW Turkey – a combined geological / geoarcheological approach. Geophysical Research Abstracts,' European Geosciences Union AGM 2007. Vienna p 01711

Journals

Articles

Hart, MB., Boulton, SJ., Hart, A B, . & Leighton, AD. (2011) 'Fortescue William Millett (1833-1915): The man and his legacy in South West England.' Geoscience in South-West England (12), pp 295 - 303

Boulton, SJ. & Whittaker, AC. (2009) 'Quantifying the slip rates, spatial distribution and evolution of active normal faults from geomorphic analysis: Field examples from an oblique-extensional graben, southern Turkey' GEOMORPHOLOGY 104 (3-4), pp 299 - 316 , DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.09.007

Boulton, SJ. (2009) 'Record of Cenozoic sedimentation from the Amanos Mountains, Southern Turkey: Implications for the inception and evolution of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision' SEDIMENT GEOL 216 (1-2), pp 29 - 47 , DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2009.01.008

Boulton, SJ. & Robertson, AHF. (2008) 'The Neogene-Recent Hatay Graben, South Central Turkey: graben formation in a setting of oblique extension (transtension) related to post-collisional tectonic escape' GEOL MAG 145 (6), pp 800 - 821 , DOI: 10.1017/S0016756808005013

Boulton, SJ., Robertson, AHF., Ellam, RM., Safak, U. & Unlugenc, UC. (2007) 'Strontium isotopic and micropalaeontological dating used to help redefine the stratigraphy of the neotectonic Hatay Graben, southern Turkey' TURK J EARTH SCI 16 (2), pp 141 - 178

Boulton, SJ. & Stewart, IS. 'Holocene marine notches of the Eastern Mediterranean: Palaeoseismic or Palaeoclimate indicators?' Geomorphology ,

Boulton, SJ., Stokes, M., Mather, A., Belfoul, A. & Faik, F. 'River channel response to thrust faulting and tectonic uplift: comparisons of steady-state and transient rivers in the Moroccan High Atlas' Lithosphere ,

Whittaker, AC. & Boulton, SJ. 'Tectonic and climatic controls on knickpoint retreat rates and landscape response times' Journal of Geophysical Research ,

Reviews

ten Veen, JH., Boulton, SJ. & Alcicek, MC. (2009) 'From palaeotectonics to neotectonics in the Neotethys realm: The importance of kinematic decoupling and inherited structural grain in SW Anatolia (Turkey)' TECTONOPHYSICS 473 (1-2), pp 261 - 281 , DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.09.030

Boulton, SJ. & Robertson, AHF. (2007) 'The Miocene of the Hatay area, S Turkey: Transition from the Arabian passive margin to an underfilled foreland basin related to closure of the Southern Neotethys Ocean' SEDIMENT GEOL 198 (1-2), pp 93 - 124 , DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.12.001

Other academic activities
I am the university representative for the Geological Society, London.

Invited Lectures:

Tectonics from topography: Using river profiles to investigate active faulting. University of Derby, 15/02/2012

Using fluvial geomorphology to constrain rates of active fault motion – Case studies from the Mediterranean. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 12/11/2010

Geology of the Hatay Graben, south central Turkey. University of the 7th of April, Libya 09/11/08

Istanbul to Cairo overland: a geological journey. University of Plymouth Geological Society 23/02/07

Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Hatay Graben, south central Turkey. University of Edinburgh 26/10/2006