School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

Prof Paul Bishop

Paul Bishop
  • Professor of Geography (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

telephone: 01413306654
email: Paul.Bishop.3@glasgow.ac.uk


My main research area is Cenozoic landscape evolution and landscape evolution and denudation over thousands to millions of years, on both passive continental margins and in active mountain belts. The main techniques that my PhD students, post-docs and I use are cosmogenic nuclide analysis, low-temperature thermochronology and various morphometric analyses. We have developed novel applications cosmogenic nuclide analysis, including using PDFs of single-grain cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations in sediments to infer catchment morphology and processes, and in situ 14C in quartz. Applications of these analytical techniques are collaborative with the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC). This research is currently funded by NERC, the Scottish Funding Council and the European Commission.

Current work is focused on the ways in which bedrock rivers and the landscape respond to rock uplift. A major focus is using the glacio-isostatic rebound of northern Britain to test hypotheses concerning knickpoint retreat in response to rock uplift. We find that knickpoint retreat scales closely to catchment area (a surrogate for water and sediment discharge) and that this scaling is not influenced by rock type or structure.

Lithology is influential in situations of low stream power (i.e., low discharges and/or low stream gradients) such as in the post-orogenic settings of interior SE Australia. Knickpoints in such post-orogenic settings, driven by denudational isostatic rebound, readily propagate upstream until they encounter resistant lithologies, where the knickpoints 'stall'. In those situations, the catchment areas above the knickpoints become 'detached' from the base-level signal, meaning in turn that catchment relief must be increasing.

Biography

I am a geomorphologist. My PhD, on the evolution of the SE Australian high elevation passive continental margin, is from the School of Earth Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, which also awarded me a DSc in 2009. I came to Glasgow in 1998 to take up the Chair of Physical Geography, after nine years at Monash University in Melbourne. For the last seven years in Melbourne, I was the Director (Administration) of Monash's Graduate School of Environmental Science.

I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.

 

 

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Number of items: 42.

2012

Bishop, P. (2012) Plate Tectonics, Continental Drift, Vulcanism and Mountain Building. In: Matthews, J. (ed.) The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change. SAGE Publications.

Codilean, A.T., Fenton, C.R. , Fabel, D. , Bishop, P. , and Xu, S. (2012) Discordance between cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in amalgamated sands and individual fluvial pebbles in an arid zone catchment. Quaternary Geochronology . ISSN 1871-1014 (doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2012.04.007) (In Press)

2011

Bishop, P., Muñoz-Salinas, E., MacKenzie, A.B. , Pulford, I. , and McKibbin, J. (2011) The character, volume and implications of sediment impounded in mill dams in Scotland: The case of the Baldernock Mill dam in East Dunbartonshire. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 101 (2). pp. 97-110. ISSN 1755-6910 (doi:10.1017/S1755691010009205)

Jansen, J.D., Fabel, D. , Bishop, P. , Xu, S. , Schnabel, C. , and Codilean, A.T. (2011) Does decreasing paraglacial sediment supply slow knickpoint retreat? Geology, 39 (6). pp. 543-546. ISSN 0091-7613 (doi:10.1130/G32018.1)

White, D., Fulop, R, Bishop, P. , Mackintosh, A., and Cook, G. (2011) Can in situ cosmogenic 14C be used to assess the influence of clast recycling on exposure dating of ice retreat in Antarctica? Quaternary Geochronology, 6 (3-4). pp. 289-294. ISSN 1871-1014 (doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2011.03.004)

2010

Munoz-Salinas, E., Bishop, P. , Sanderson, D. , and Zamorano, J-J. (2010) Interpreting luminescence data from a portable OSL reader: three case studies in fluvial settings. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms . ISSN 0197-9337 (doi:10.1002/esp.2084)

Bishop, P., and Goldrick, G. (2010) Lithology and the evolution of bedrock rivers in post-orogenic settings: Constraints from the high elevation passive continental margin of SE Australia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 346 . pp. 267-287. ISSN 0305-8719 (doi:10.1144/SP346.14)

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D. , Codilean, A.T. , and Hoey, T.B. (2010) Scale-dependence of lithological control on topography: Bedrock channel geometry and catchment morphometry in western Scotland. Journal of Geology, 118 . pp. 223-246. ISSN 0022-1376 (doi:10.1086/651273)

Codilean, A.T., Bishop, P. , Hoey, T.B. , Stuart, F.M., and Fabel, D. (2010) Cosmogenic 21Ne analysis of individual detrital grains: opportunities and limitations. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 35 (1). p. 16. ISSN 0197-9337 (doi:10.1002/esp.1815)

Fulop, R., Naysmith, P. , Cook, G. , Fabel, D. , Xu, S. , and Bishop, P. (2010) Update on the performance of the SUERC in situ cosmogenic 14C extraction line. In: 20th International Radiocarbon Conference, 31 May - 5 Jun 2009, Hawaii.

Fülöp, R.H., Naysmith, P. , Cook, G.T. , Fabel, D., Xu, S. , and Bishop, P. (2010) Update on the performance of the SUERC in situ cosmogenic 14C extraction line. Radiocarbon, 52 (3). pp. 1288-1294. ISSN 0033-8222

2009

Fulop, R., Bishop, P. , Fabel, D. , Cook, G. , Schnabel, C. , Naysmith, P. , and Xu, S. (2009) Determining amounts and timing of soil erosion using in situ cosmogenic C-14 and Be-ao. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73 (13 (Su). A403. ISSN 0016-7037 (doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.005)

Bishop, P., and Leake, B.E. (2009) The beginnings of geography teaching and research in the University of Glasgow: the impact of J.W. Gregory. Scottish Geographical Journal, 125 (3-4). pp. 273-284. ISSN 1470-2541 (doi:10.1080/14702540903364302)

2008

Campanile, D., Nambiar, C. G., Bishop, P. , Widdowson, M., and Brown, R. (2008) Sedimentation record in the Konkan–Kerala Basin: implications for the evolution of the Western Ghats and the Western Indian passive margin. Basin Research, 20 (1). pp. 3-22. ISSN 0950-091X (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00341.x)

Bishop, P. (2008) Tectonic and related landforms. In: Chorley, R.J., Dunn, A.J., Beckinsale, R.P., Burt, T.P., Brunsden, D., Cox, N.J. and Goudie, A. (eds.) The History of the Study of Landforms; Or, The Development of Geomorphology. The Geological Society, London, UK, pp. 55-105. ISBN 9781862392496

Codilean, A.T., Bishop, P. , Stuart, F.M. , Hoey, T.B. , Fabel, D. , and Freeman, S.P.H.T. (2008) Single-grain cosmogenic 21Ne concentrations in fluvial sediments reveal spatially variable erosion rates. Geology, 36 (2). pp. 159-162. ISSN 0091-7613 (doi:10.1130/G24360A.1)

2007

Campanile, D., Nambiar, C.G., Bishop, P. , Widdowson, M., and Brown, R. (2007) Sedimentation record in the Konkan-Kerala Basin: implications for the evolution of the Western Ghats and the Western Indian passive margin. Basin Research, 20 (1). pp. 3-22. ISSN 0950-091X (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2007.00341.x)

Persano, C., Barfod, D. , Stuart, F. , and Bishop, P. (2007) Constraints on early Cenozoic underplating-driven uplift and denudation of western Scotland from low temperature thermochronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 263 (3-4). pp. 404-419. ISSN 0012-821X (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.09.016)

Freeman, S. et al. (2007) The SUERC AMS laboratory after 3 years. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 259 (1). pp. 66-70. ISSN 0168-583X (doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.312)

Schnabel, C., Reinhardt, L., Barrows, T.T., Bishop, P. , Davidson, A. , Fifield, L.K., Freeman, S. , Kim, J.Y., Maden, C,, and Xu, S, (2007) Inter-comparison in 10Be analysis starting from pre-purified quartz. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 259 (1). pp. 571-575. ISSN 0168-583X (doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2007.01.298)

Reinhardt, L.J., Hoey, T.B. , Barrows, T.T., Dempster, T.J. , Bishop, P. , and Fifield, L.K. (2007) Interpreting erosion rates from cosmogenic radionuclide concentrations measured in rapidly eroding terrain. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32 (3). pp. 390-406. ISSN 0197-9337 (doi:10.1002/esp.1415)

Bishop, P. (2007) Long-term landscape evolution: linking tectonics and surface processes. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32 . pp. 329-365. ISSN 0197-9337 (doi:10.1002/esp.1493)

Goldrick, G, and Bishop, P (2007) Regional analysis of bedrock stream long profiles: evaluation of Hack's SL form, and formulation and assessment of an alternative (the DS form). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 32 . pp. 649-671. (doi:10.1002/esp.1413)

Reinhardt, L.J., Bishop, P. , Hoey, T.B. , Dempster, T.J. , and Sanderson, D.C.W. (2007) Quantification of the transient response to base-level fall in a small mountain catchment: Sierra Nevada, southern Spain. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, 112 . ISSN 0148-0227 (doi:10.1029/2006JF000524)

Sanderson, D.C.W., Bishop, P. , Stark, M., Alexander, S., and Penny, D. (2007) Luminescence dating of canal sediments from Angkor borei, mekong delta, southern Cambodia. Quaternary Geochronology, 2 . pp. 322-329. ISSN 1871-1014 (doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2006.05.032)

2006

Persano, C., Bishop, P. , and Stuart, F.M. (2006) Apatite (U - Th)/He age constraints on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic evolution of the Bathurst region, New South Wales: evidence for antiquity of the continental drainage divide along a passive margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53 (6). pp. 1041-1050. ISSN 0812-0099 (doi:10.1080/08120090600923303)

Codilean, A.T., Bishop, P. , and Hoey, T.B. (2006) Surface process models and the links between tectonics and topography. Progress in Physical Geography, 30 . pp. 307-333. ISSN 0309-1333 (doi:10.1191/0309133306pp480ra)

2005

Bishop, P., Sanderson, D. , Hansom, J. , and Chaimanee, N. (2005) Age-dating of tsunami deposits: lessons from the 26 December 2004 tsunami in Thailand. Geographical Journal, 171 (4). pp. 379-384. ISSN 0016-7398 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2005.00175_4.x)

Bishop, P., and Jansen, J.D. (2005) The geomorphological setting of some of Scotland's east coast freshwater mills: a comment on Downward and Skinner (2005) ‘Working rivers: the geomorphological legacy...’. Area, 37 (4). pp. 443-445. ISSN 0004-0894 (doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2005.00642.x)

Bishop, P., Hoey, T.B., Jansen, J.D., and Artza, I.L. (2005) Knickpoint recession rate and catchment area: the case of uplifted rivers in Eastern Scotland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 30 (6). pp. 767-778. ISSN 0197-9337 (doi:10.1002/esp.1191)

Persano, C., Stuart, F.M. , Bishop, P. , and Dempster, T.J. (2005) Deciphering continental breakup in eastern Australia using low-temperature thermochronometers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 110 . B12405. ISSN 1934-8843 (doi:10.1029/2004JB003325)

2004

Bishop, P., ed. (2004) Geomorphology: Critical Concepts in Geography. Volume 7: Landscape Evolution. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415276085

Bishop, P., Sanderson, D.C.W. , and Stark, M.T. (2004) OSL and radiocarbon dating of a pre-Angkorian canal in the Mekong delta, southern Cambodia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 31 (3). 319 -336. ISSN 0305-4403 (doi:10.1016/j.jas.2003.09.002)

Freeman, S., Bishop, P. , Bryant, C. , Cook, G. , Fallick, A.E. , Harkness, D., Metcalfe, S., Scott, M., Scott, R. , and Summerfield, M. (2004) A new environmental sciences AMS laboratory in Scotland. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 223-24 . pp. 31-34. ISSN 0168-583X (doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2004.04.010)

2003

Sanderson, D.C.W., Bishop, P. , Stark, M.T., and Spencer, J.Q. (2003) Luminescence dating of anthropogenically reset canal sediments from Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, Cambodia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 22 (10-13). pp. 1111-1121. ISSN 0277-3791 (doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00055-6)

Bishop, P. (2003) Scotland's denudational history: an integrated view of erosion and sedimentation at an uplifted passive margin. Geological Society Special Publication, 196 . pp. 271-290. ISSN 0305-8719

Bishop, P., Penny, D., Stark, M., and Scott, M. (2003) A 3.5 ka record of paleoenvironments and human occupation at Angkor Borei, Mekong Delta, southern Cambodia. Geoarchaeology, 18 (3). pp. 359-393. ISSN 0883-6353 (doi:10.1002/gea.10067)

Hoey, T.B., Bishop, P. , and Ferguson, R.I. (2003) Testing numerical modes in geomorphology: how can we ensure critical use of model predictions. In: Wilcock, P.R. and Iverson, R.M. (eds.) Prediction in Geomorphology. Series: Geophysical monograph (135). American Geophysical Union, Washington DC, USA, pp. 241-256. ISBN 9780875909936

van der Beek, P, and Bishop, P (2003) Cenozoic river profile development in the Upper Lachlan catchment (SE Australia) as a test of quantitative fluvial incision models. Journal of Geophysical Research-solid Earth, 108 . (doi:10.1029/2002JB002125)

2002

Persano, C., Stuart, F.M., Bishop, P. , and Barfod, D.N. (2002) Apatite (U-Th)/He age constraints on the development of the Great Escarpment on the southeastern Australian passive margin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 200 (1-2). pp. 79-90. ISSN 0012-821X (doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00614-3)

2001

Sanderson, D.C.W., Bishop, P. , Houston, I., and Boonsener, M. (2001) Luminescence characterisation of quartz-rich cover sands from NE Thailand. Quaternary Science Reviews, 20 (5-9). pp. 893-900. ISSN 0277-3791 (doi:10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00014-7)

2000

Bishop, P., and Goldrick, G. (2000) Geomorphological evolution of the East Australian continental margin. In: Summerfield, M.A. (ed.) Geomorphology and Global Tectonics. Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 227-255. ISBN 9780471971931

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Fabel, D., Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., Whitbread K. 2010. Postglacial bedrock river incision, £13k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility Allocation 9088.0410).

Bishop, P. and Munoz-Salinas, E. 2009-2011. The evolution of post-orogenic landscapes: bedrock rivers, lithology and relief development (PostOroLand), Euros172,434 (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008 – Proposal N° 237203).

Bishop, P. and Munoz-Salinas, E. 2009. The role of resistant lithologies in the evolution of post-orogenic landscapes, £19,010 (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award). Co-investigator: F. Stuart (SUERC), A.T. Codilean (GFZ).

Bishop, P. and Codilean, T. 2008. Single grain 21Ne/10Be ratios in fluvial quartz pebbles: Testing the reliability of cosmogenic 21Ne in sediment, £15,010 (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility award 9054.0408). Co-investigator: F. Stuart (SUERC)

Bishop, P. 2006-2010. SAGES (Scottish Alliance for Geosciences, Environment & Society, £6.5M (Scottish Funding Council for a pan-Scotland Pooling Initiative; £898,000 to Glasgow). Co-applicants (on behalf of the Scottish geosciences community): D.E. Sugden (Edinburgh), A.E. Fallick (SUERC).

Jansen, J.D., Bishop, P., Hoey, T.B. 2007. Quantifying retreat rates of river knickpoints triggered by glacio-isostatic rebound, £10k (NERC Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility Allocation 9032.1006).

Bishop, P. 2006-2009. Early historic landscapes and the rise of centralised states on the Mekong Delta, Cambodia, £196,230 (AHRC 119196). Co-Investigators: Professor Tony Fallick (Co-applicant; Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre); collaborating with Dr Dan Penny (University of Sydney), Dr Miriam Stark (University of Hawai`i), Dr Russell Drysdale (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Bishop, P. and Hansom, J. 2005. OSL 'ages' and depositional settings of December 26 2004 tsunami deposits in Phuket, S Thailand, £22,068 (NERC NE/D521373/1). Co-Investigator: D. Sanderson (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride)

Bishop, P., Hoey, T., Jansen, J.D. 2005-2008. Using the glacioisostatic uplift of N Britain to assess the controls on knickpoint recession in bedrock river channels, £115k (NERC, NE/C510416/1).

Bishop, P. 2004-2005. A laser facility for helium analysis for geomorphological, geological and archaeological applications in the Scottish Universities, £29,400 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland). Co-Investigator: F. Stuart (SUERC). Collaborators from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Bishop, P. 2003-2006. Determining the post-break-up evolution of high elevation passive margins, £38,601 (NERC NER/S/R/2003/12016. Co-investigators: F. Stuart (SUERC), M. Widdowson (Open University)

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., 2003-2004. Bedrock river morphology and incision processes in a rapidly uplifting mountain block, £1700 (Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland).

Bishop, P., Jansen, J.D., 2003-2004. How do bedrock rivers respond to uplift?: River long profiles and river response times in the Sierra Nevada mountain block, Spain, £25k (Royal Academy of Engineering, 10444/26).

Swift, D.A. 2003–2006. Antiquity and severity of glacial erosion in Greenland, £97,464 (BP Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship). Collaborators: Prof Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow), Dr Finlay M. Stuart (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), East Kilbride) and Dr Cristina Persano (Glasgow).

Bishop, P. convening a consortium of Aberdeen, Edinburgh & Glasgow Universities + SUERC. 2001 – 2005. CRUST: Constraining Regional Uplift, Sedimentation & Thermochronology, £632,000 (SHEFC RDG HR00131)

Hoey, T. B.; Bishop, P.; Dempster, T.J. 2001. Inferring denudation history from He isotope and cosmogenic analysis of sediments, £10,034 (Leverhulme Trust). Co-Investigator F. Stuart (SUERC).

  • Miguel Castillo (PhD candidate)
  • Réka-Hajnalka Fülöp (PhD candidate)
  • Gaetan Vilette (MSc candidate)
  • Katie Whitbread (PhD candidate)

My time is currently devoted 100% to research and I have no teaching responsibilities.