Sophie Horton

Member since: 2019

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University of Canterbury

Bio: I have been a member of the New Zealand Coastal Society since 2019 and joined
the Executive in 2024 with portfolio interests in education and outreach programmes
within the Society. I am an academic at the University of Canterbury where I teach
Coastal Processes as a part of the Geography Programme. My research interests
are in contemporary processes of sediment transport and mobilisation in both
coastal and fluvial environments, as well as investigating the role of neo-tectonic
landscapes and long-term changes in landscape evolution. In particular I am
interested in processes of denudation and erosion and how these manifest in
mountain environments and at the coast recognising the intrinsic linkages that our
coastal systems have to our mountains (Kia uta ki tai). My research uses
geochemical techniques to discern the origins of sediment, as well as field-based
experiments of water velocity and transport capacity, and interrogates the role of
different wave spectra for undertaking geomorphic work.