Dr Richard Boothroyd

  • Honorary Research Associate (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

email: Richard.Boothroyd@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 309, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, East Quadrangle, University of Glasgow

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229

Research interests

I am a river scientist interested in capturing the dynamics of fluvial systems using remote sensing techniques. Current post-doctoral research focuses on hydrometeorological hazards in tropical rivers, investigating geomorphic change (i.e., erosion and deposition) and flood risk in the Philippines.

 

Biography

  • 2019 - present: Fluvial Geomorphology Research Associate, University of Glasgow 
  • 2018 - 2019: Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Manchester
  • 2017 - 2018: Hydraulic Modeller, Mott MacDonald, Leeds
  • 2013 - 2017: PhD Physical Geography, Durham University

 

Publications

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Number of items: 20.

2025

Boothroyd, R. J. et al. (2025) Big data show idiosyncratic patterns and rates of geomorphic river mobility. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3263. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58427-9) (PMID:40188197) (PMCID:PMC11972300)

Quick, L. et al. (2025) Confined and mined: anthropogenic river modification as a driver of flood risk change. npj Natural Hazards, 2, 4. (doi: 10.1038/s44304-024-00051-6)

2024

Panici, Diego, Bennett, Georgina, Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Abancó, Clàudia, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Tan, Fibor and Matera, Mark (2024) Observations and computational multi-phase modelling in tropical river settings show complex channel changes downstream from rainfall-triggered landslides. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(8), pp. 2498-2516. (doi: 10.1002/esp.5841)

Tolentino, Pamela, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218 and Brierley, Gary (2024) Case Study: Making Space for Philippine Rivers. Documentation. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

2023

Yadav, Anshul, Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Sambrook Smith, Gregory G. and Sen, Sumit (2023) Morphological adjustments of the Yamuna River in the Himalayan foothills in response to natural and anthropogenic stresses. Hydrological Processes, 37(7), e14934. (doi: 10.1002/hyp.14934)

Tolentino, Pamela Louise, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Brierley, Gary and Quick, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-4767 (2023) Policy Brief: Making Space for Philippine Rivers. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Boothroyd, R. J. et al. (2023) National-scale geodatabase of catchment characteristics in the Philippines for river management applications. PLoS ONE, 18(3), e0281933. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281933) (PMID:36888610) (PMCID:PMC9994713)

2022

Li, Qing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1047-4026, Barrett, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218 and Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 (2022) Enhancing performance of multi-temporal tropical river landform classification through downscaling approaches. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(17), pp. 6445-6462. (doi: 10.1080/01431161.2022.2139164)

Tolentino, Pamela Louise M., Perez, John Edward G., Guardian, Esmael L., Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Fryirs, Kirstie A., Brierley, Gary J. and David, Carlos Primo C. (2022) River Styles and stream power analysis reveal the diversity of fluvial morphology in a Philippine tropical catchment. Geoscience Letters, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40562-022-00211-4)

2021

Norbury, Michael, Phillips, Hazel, Macdonald, Neil, Brown, David, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Wilson, Catherine, Quinn, Paul and Shaw, David (2021) Quantifying the hydrological implications of pre- and post-installation willowed engineered log jams in the Pennine Uplands, NW England. Journal of Hydrology, 603(Part C), 126855. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126855)

Green, D., O’Donnell, E., Johnson, M., Slater, L., Thorne, C., Zheng, S., Stirling, R., Chan, F.K.S., Li, L. and Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 (2021) Green infrastructure: the future of urban flood risk management? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(6), e1560. (doi: 10.1002/wat2.1560)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Tolentino, Pamela L.M. and Yang, Xiao (2021) National-scale assessment of decadal river migration at critical bridge infrastructure in the Philippines. Science of the Total Environment, 768, 144460. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144460) (PMID:33450685)

Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Nones, Michael and Guerrero, Massimo (2021) Deriving planform morphology and vegetation coverage from remote sensing to support river management applications. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 657354. (doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.657354)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Barrett, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020 and Prasojo, Octria A. (2021) Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(1), e21496. (doi: 10.1002/wat2.1496)

2020

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 and Warburton, Jeff (2020) Spatial organisation and physical characteristics of large peat blocks in an upland fluvial peatland ecosystem. Geomorphology, 370, 107397. (doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107397)

Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Barrett, B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020, Hoey, T.B., Tolentino, P.L.M., Perez, J.E., Guardian, E., David, C.P. and Yang, X. (2020) Detecting and Quantifying Morphological Change in Tropical Rivers Using Google Earth Engine and Image Analysis Techniques. In: River Flow 2020: 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Delft, Netherlands, 07-10 Jul 2020, pp. 1013-1021. ISBN 9780367627737

2019

Marjoribanks, T.I., Lague, D., Hardy, R.J., Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Leroux, J., Mony, C. and Puijalon, S. (2019) Flexural rigidity and shoot reconfiguration determine wake length behind saltmarsh vegetation patches. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(8), pp. 2176-2196. (doi: 10.1029/2019jf005012)

2018

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Majoribanks, Timothy I. (2018) The importance of riparian plant orientation in river flow: implications for flow structures and drag. Journal of Ecohydraulics, 3(2), pp. 108-129. (doi: 10.1080/24705357.2019.1573648)

2017

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Marjoribanks, Timothy I. (2017) Modeling complex flow structures and drag around a submerged plant of varied posture. Water Resources Research, 53(4), pp. 2877-2901. (doi: 10.1002/2016WR020186)

2016

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Marjoribanks, Timothy I. (2016) The importance of accurately representing submerged vegetation morphology in the numerical prediction of complex river flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(4), pp. 567-576. (doi: 10.1002/esp.3871)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 14:32:23 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 20.

Articles

Boothroyd, R. J. et al. (2025) Big data show idiosyncratic patterns and rates of geomorphic river mobility. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3263. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58427-9) (PMID:40188197) (PMCID:PMC11972300)

Quick, L. et al. (2025) Confined and mined: anthropogenic river modification as a driver of flood risk change. npj Natural Hazards, 2, 4. (doi: 10.1038/s44304-024-00051-6)

Panici, Diego, Bennett, Georgina, Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Abancó, Clàudia, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Tan, Fibor and Matera, Mark (2024) Observations and computational multi-phase modelling in tropical river settings show complex channel changes downstream from rainfall-triggered landslides. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(8), pp. 2498-2516. (doi: 10.1002/esp.5841)

Yadav, Anshul, Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Sambrook Smith, Gregory G. and Sen, Sumit (2023) Morphological adjustments of the Yamuna River in the Himalayan foothills in response to natural and anthropogenic stresses. Hydrological Processes, 37(7), e14934. (doi: 10.1002/hyp.14934)

Boothroyd, R. J. et al. (2023) National-scale geodatabase of catchment characteristics in the Philippines for river management applications. PLoS ONE, 18(3), e0281933. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281933) (PMID:36888610) (PMCID:PMC9994713)

Li, Qing ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1047-4026, Barrett, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218 and Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 (2022) Enhancing performance of multi-temporal tropical river landform classification through downscaling approaches. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 43(17), pp. 6445-6462. (doi: 10.1080/01431161.2022.2139164)

Tolentino, Pamela Louise M., Perez, John Edward G., Guardian, Esmael L., Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Fryirs, Kirstie A., Brierley, Gary J. and David, Carlos Primo C. (2022) River Styles and stream power analysis reveal the diversity of fluvial morphology in a Philippine tropical catchment. Geoscience Letters, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40562-022-00211-4)

Norbury, Michael, Phillips, Hazel, Macdonald, Neil, Brown, David, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Wilson, Catherine, Quinn, Paul and Shaw, David (2021) Quantifying the hydrological implications of pre- and post-installation willowed engineered log jams in the Pennine Uplands, NW England. Journal of Hydrology, 603(Part C), 126855. (doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126855)

Green, D., O’Donnell, E., Johnson, M., Slater, L., Thorne, C., Zheng, S., Stirling, R., Chan, F.K.S., Li, L. and Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 (2021) Green infrastructure: the future of urban flood risk management? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(6), e1560. (doi: 10.1002/wat2.1560)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Tolentino, Pamela L.M. and Yang, Xiao (2021) National-scale assessment of decadal river migration at critical bridge infrastructure in the Philippines. Science of the Total Environment, 768, 144460. (doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144460) (PMID:33450685)

Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Nones, Michael and Guerrero, Massimo (2021) Deriving planform morphology and vegetation coverage from remote sensing to support river management applications. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 657354. (doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.657354)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218, Barrett, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020 and Prasojo, Octria A. (2021) Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 8(1), e21496. (doi: 10.1002/wat2.1496)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229 and Warburton, Jeff (2020) Spatial organisation and physical characteristics of large peat blocks in an upland fluvial peatland ecosystem. Geomorphology, 370, 107397. (doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107397)

Marjoribanks, T.I., Lague, D., Hardy, R.J., Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Leroux, J., Mony, C. and Puijalon, S. (2019) Flexural rigidity and shoot reconfiguration determine wake length behind saltmarsh vegetation patches. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(8), pp. 2176-2196. (doi: 10.1029/2019jf005012)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Majoribanks, Timothy I. (2018) The importance of riparian plant orientation in river flow: implications for flow structures and drag. Journal of Ecohydraulics, 3(2), pp. 108-129. (doi: 10.1080/24705357.2019.1573648)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Marjoribanks, Timothy I. (2017) Modeling complex flow structures and drag around a submerged plant of varied posture. Water Resources Research, 53(4), pp. 2877-2901. (doi: 10.1002/2016WR020186)

Boothroyd, Richard J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Hardy, Richard J., Warburton, Jeff and Marjoribanks, Timothy I. (2016) The importance of accurately representing submerged vegetation morphology in the numerical prediction of complex river flow. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 41(4), pp. 567-576. (doi: 10.1002/esp.3871)

Research Reports or Papers

Tolentino, Pamela, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Hoey, Trevor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0734-6218 and Brierley, Gary (2024) Case Study: Making Space for Philippine Rivers. Documentation. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Tolentino, Pamela Louise, Boothroyd, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, Richard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Brierley, Gary and Quick, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-4767 (2023) Policy Brief: Making Space for Philippine Rivers. Documentation. University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Conference Proceedings

Boothroyd, R.J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9742-4229, Williams, R.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1947, Barrett, B. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4380-4020, Hoey, T.B., Tolentino, P.L.M., Perez, J.E., Guardian, E., David, C.P. and Yang, X. (2020) Detecting and Quantifying Morphological Change in Tropical Rivers Using Google Earth Engine and Image Analysis Techniques. In: River Flow 2020: 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, Delft, Netherlands, 07-10 Jul 2020, pp. 1013-1021. ISBN 9780367627737

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 14:32:23 2025 BST.

Grants

Research Grants

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship - 2021-22 ($10,000)

Research datasets

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Number of items: 7.

2025

Li, Q., Williams, R. , Hoey, T., Barrett, B. and Boothroyd, R. (2025) Seasonal and annual tropical river pattern change detection using machine learning. [Data Collection]

2024

Quick, L. , Williams, R.D. , Boothroyd, R.J. , Hoey, T.B., Tolentino, P.L.M., MacDonell, C. , Guardian, E., Reyes, J., Sabillo, C., Perez, J. and David, C.P.C. (2024) Confined and mined: anthropogenic river modification as a driver of flood risk change. [Data Collection]

Hoey, T. B., Tolentino, P., Guardian, E., Perez, J. E. G., Williams, R. , Boothroyd, R. , David, C. P. C. and Paringit, E. (2024) Flood estimation for ungauged catchments in the Philippines: Annual Maximum Flow (AMAX) and catchment properties data. [Data Collection]

2023

Boothroyd, R. , Williams, R. , Hoey, T., MacDonell, C. , Tolentino, P. L. and Quick, L. (2023) National-scale geodatabase of catchment characteristics in the Philippines for river management applications. [Data Collection]

2022

Li, Q., Williams, R. , Hoey, T., Barrett, B. and Boothroyd, R. (2022) Landform classification through downscaling approaches for the Bislak, Laoag and Abra Rivers, the Philippines. [Data Collection]

2021

Boothroyd, R. , Williams, R. , Hoey, T., Tolentino, P. L., Guardian, E., Reyes, M., Sabillo, C., Quick, L., Perez, J. and Carlos, D. (2021) Catchment Project: Philippines Catchment and Stream Network GIS database. [Data Collection]

2020

Boothroyd, R. , Williams, R. , Hoey, T. B., Tolentino, P. L. and Yang, X. (2020) River channel migration and characteristics from 1988 to 2019 at 74 bridges in the Philippines. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Mon Jun 16 01:34:36 2025 BST.

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