Prof. Richard Walker

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Richard T Walker is an Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University. His research combines remote sensing, detailed field investigation, earthquake studies, and Quaternary dating methods to quantify the distribution, rates, and evolution of active faulting within deforming parts of the continents. Professor Walker's approach is to combine the use of remote-sensing data with field-based observations for identifying and studying active faults. He has extensive experience of working in actively deforming areas (e.g. China, the Tien Shan, Iran, Mongolia) and has investigated Earth deformation ranging in scale from individual earthquakes through to the evolution of entire mountain ranges.