Hannah Runeckles
Hannah's PhD project title is ‘'Investigating the morphological footprints of anthropogenic activities upon the Red River Delta, Vietnam, and its communities.' Read more about Hannah's research.
Project title
Investigating the morphological footprints of anthropogenic activities upon the Red River Delta, Vietnam, and its communities
Supervisors
- Dr Christopher Hackney
- Dr Andy Large
- Dr Hue Le (Central Institute for Natural Resources and the Environment, Vietnam National University)
- Do Thu Nga (Electric Power University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
Funding
This PhD studentship is funded by Newcastle University Academic Track Fellowships (NUAcT)
About Hannah
Project description
This project investigates the morphological footprints of anthropogenic activities, such as sand mining and damming, upon the Red River Delta (RRD), Vietnam.
The RRD has been undergoing spatially-extensive geomorphological change in response to intensifying riverine sand extraction, damming, and groundwater abstraction.
Despite this, little is known about the spatial extent, magnitude, and effect of sand mining upon the RRD’s morphology and local livelihoods.
This project aims to bring together remote sensing, bathymetric riverbed surveys, participatory research methods and citizen science techniques to generate local expertise to explore the spatial distribution and magnitude of anthropogenic activities, and their resultant impacts, upon the Red River Delta’s morphology and livelihoods.
Acknowledgements
This project is supported by the UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub Living Deltas - Global Challenges - Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk), the British Society for Geomorphology (BSG), and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).
Teaching
- GEO3152 - Applied Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEO2229 - River Catchment Dynamics
- GEO2127 - Doing Physical Geography Research: Theory and Practice
- GEO1096 - Geographical Skills
- GEO1020 - Introduction to Physical Geography
Publications
- Runeckles, H., Hackney, C.R., Le, H., Ha, T.T.H., Bui, L., Do, N.T. and Large, A. (2023) “Local people want to keep their sand”: Variations in community perceptions and everyday resistance to sand mining across the Red River, Vietnam, The Extractive Industries and Society, 15, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101336
Conferences
- Runeckles, H., Hackney, C.R., Le, H., Ha, H.T.T., Bui, L., Do, N.T. and Large, A. (2023) Decadal-scale riverbed incision in the Red River Delta (RRD), Việt Nam, driven by intense and widespread sediment extraction, British Society for Geomorphology (BSG) Annual Meeting 2023, Edinburgh University (Poster).
- Runeckles, H., Hackney, C.R., Le, H., Ha, H.T.T., Bui, L., Do, N.T. and Large, A. (2023) The morphological signatures of riverine sand extraction within the Red River Delta, Việt Nam, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023: EP31B Predicting the Fate of River Deltas and Coastal Wetlands: Observations, Modeling, and Experimentation, San Francisco (Poster).
- Runeckles, H., Yousef, H. and Hackney, C.R. Connecting sand: mapping disparate disciplinary connections to unravel the global sand system, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2023: Science & Society: SY51A Impacts of Mineral Extraction and Artisanal Mining on Societies and Natural Environments, San Francisco (Poster).