Paul Hudson
Associate Professor
- Name
- Dr. P.F. Hudson
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9330
- p.f.hudson@luc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-2534-2720
Paul Hudson is Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Sustainability. He is a Dutch-American academic, and has been in the Netherlands since 2010 where he has considerable experience managing and leading educational programs across the university landscape. His teaching and research in environmental Earth sciences includes a field based approach augmented with GISc mapping and analysis of satellite imagery and historic cartography. In broad terms Hudson’s research investigates human impacts on the environment, and specifically he examines flooding, soil erosion, river adjustment, sediment transport, as well as the management of floodplain environments with rewilding and nature based approaches.
Extension number: 8730
Biography:
Paul Hudson is Associate Professor of Physical Geography and Sustainability at Leiden University in the Netherlands. After fifteen years in the Netherlands Paul is a Dutch-American academic, and joined Leiden University after fourteen years in the Department of Geography & Environment at the University of Texas at Austin, and after two years at Amsterdam University College (UvA).
Within academia Hudson has considerable managerial experience across the university landscape. Five key appointments and accomplishments includes i. serving as graduate coordinator for masters and PhD programs at University of Texas at Austin – Geography, ii. Director of Studies (BSc) and Senior Tutor at Leiden University College, iii. development of a new BSc in Earth, Energy, and Sustainability at Leiden University, iv. serving as Chair (voorzitter) of the Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO) Committee in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University, and v. recipient of a Senior Onderwijskwalificatie (SKO) Teaching Certification, Leiden University.
Hudson’s scholarly interests concerns the environmental management of rivers and water resources within coastal lowlands and deltas, through the lens of physical geography and hydrology, and the role of governance in designing effective management strategies, including through the development of rewilding and nature based solutions. His teaching and research enjoys a symbiotic relationship due to employment of a “research-led teaching” approach, including the mentoring of students in their Capstone field projects.
Hudson has developed and taught over twenty different courses within environmental earth sciences and GIS at the bachelor and graduate levels. His five signature courses includes i. Field Methods for Land and Water Resources, ii. Climate Change and Water Resources for Sustainable Food Production, iii. Earth Systems Science, iv. Fluvial Geomorphology, and v. Watershed Systems and Environmental Management.
His field-based research is augmented with GISc mapping and analysis of satellite imagery and historic cartography. Hudson’s research is both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, and he has collaborated with archaeologists, biologists, geographers, historians, geologists and engineers. Hudson has/had led research projects in the Netherlands (Rhine delta, Limburg), eastern Mexico (Veracruz), Texas coastal plain, and along the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana and Mississippi. Funding has come from government agencies, consultancy, U.S. National Science Foundation, and U.S. Fulbright.
Hudson serves on the Programme Committee of the Netherlands Center for River Studies (NCR), and is an Editorial Board member of Geomorphology. He has provided expert advice concerning environmental water resources across a range of governmental scales; community, state, and national, including Dutch parliament (Tweede Kamer).
Academic Expertise:
- Human impacts on the environment
- Hydrology and flooding
- GIS
- Mississippi River
- Lowland rivers
- Geomorphology
- Historic landscapes
- Floodplain management
Courses:
- Water Resources and River Management
- Earth Systems Science
- Advanced GIS
- Water, Policy and the Environment
Associate Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.41
Contact
- Breggen N.N. van der & Hudson P.F. (2024), Influence of atmospheric rivers on extreme rainfall and high streamflow events in northwestern Europe: Rur (Roer) River basin , Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 51: 101644.
- Boucher Z. Hudson P.F. (2023), Troubled waters: Riparian ecosystem services and community opposition to the largest dam removal project in Europe, Vezins Dam, France, Geoforum 147: .
- Hudson P.F. & Park E. (2023), Lowland rivers: Geomorphology, human impacts, and management (Introduction to special issue), Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 48: 7-13.
- Van Tilburg A.J. Hudson P.F. (2022), Extreme weather events and farmer adaptation in Zeeland, the Netherlands: A European climate change case study from the Rhine delta, Science of the Total Environment 844(157212): .
- Hudson P.F. (2021), Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands: A Global Environmental Perspective. England: Cambridge University Press.
- Hudson P.F. (2020), Water: how does agriculture impact freshwater resources? . In: Behrens P. Bosker T.B. Ehrhardt D. (Ed.), Food and Sustainability : Oxford University Press.
- Hudson P.F. Houben P. Bosker T. (2020), Soils: what are the impacts of agriculture on soils? . In: Behrens P. Bosker T. Ehrhardt D. (Ed.), Food and Sustainability: Oxford University Press.
- Hudson P.F. & Zorn M. (2019), The role of historic human impacts on modern environmental processes and management: Introduction to special issue, Land Degradation and Development : 1-4.
- Hudson P.F. (2018), Towards integrated flood management along the lower Rhine and Mississippi Rivers and the international legacy of the 2005 New Orleans Hurricanes Katrina–Rita flood disaster, International Journal of River Basin Management 16(3): 273-285.
- Most M. van der & Hudson P.F. (2018), The influence of floodplain geomorphology and hydrologic connectivity on alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) habitat along the embanked floodplain of the Lower Mississippi River, Geomorphology 302: 62-75.
- Hudson P.F. (2018), Flood Control Infrastructure and ‘Political Hydrology’ along the LA-TX Gulf Coast. Washington DC: American Association of Geographers, AAG Newsletter 53(April 4): .
- Heitmuller F.T., Hudson P.F. & Kesel R.H. (2017), Overbank sedimentation from the extreme AD 2011 flood along the Lower Mississippi River, Geology 45(2): 107–110.
- Hudson P.F. & Hinman S.E. (2017), The integration of geography in a curriculum focused to internationalization and interdisciplinarity: A liberal arts & sciences perspective from the U.S. and the Netherlands, Journal of Geography in Higher Education 41(4): 549-561.
- Hudson P.F. (2017), Fluvial Depositional Processes and Landforms. In: Richardson D., Castree N., Goodchild M.F., Kobayashi A., Liu W. & Marston R.A. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hudson P.F. (2017), Water Engineering. In: Richardson D., Castree N., Goodchild M.F., Kobayashi A., Liu W. & Marston R.A. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Hudson P.F., Goudie A. & Asrat A. (2015), Human Impacts on Landscapes: Geomorphology, Environmental Change, and Sustainability (refereed special issue), Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementbände 59(2): 1-245.
- Hudson P.F. & Middelkoop H. (2015), Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe. New York: Springer-Verlag.
- Hudson P.F. & Middelkoop H. (2015), The Palimpsest of River-Floodplain Management and the Role of Geomorphology. In: Hudson P.F. & Middelkoop H. (Eds.), Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe. New York: Springer-Verlag. 337-350.
- Hudson P.F. & Middelkoop H. (2015), Integrated Floodplain Management, Environmental Change, and Geomorphology: Problems and Prospects. In: Hudson P.F. & Middelkoop H. (Eds.), Geomorphic Approaches to Integrated Floodplain Management of Lowland Fluvial Systems in North America and Europe. New York: Springer-Verlag. 1-8.
- Heitmuller F.T., Hudson P.F. & Asquith W.H. (2015), Lithologic and hydrologic controls of mixed alluvial–bedrock channels in flood-prone fluvial systems: bankfull and macrochannels in the Llano River watershed, central Texas, US, Geomorphology 232: 1-19.
- Hudson P.F., Goudie A. & Asrat A. (2015), Human impacts on landscapes: Sustainability and the role of geomorphology (editorial), Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementbände 59(2): 1-5.
- Avwunudiogba A. & Hudson P.F. (2014), A review of soil erosion models with special reference to the needs of humid tropical mountainous environments, European Journal of Sustainable Development 3(4): 299-310.
- Hudson P.F. & LaFevor M. (2014), Management and Monitoring Land Degradation and Environmental Change (refereed special issue), Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1-96.
- Hudson P.F. & LaFevor M.C. (Eds.) (2014), . Journal of Environmental Management.
- Hudson P.F. & LaFevor M.C. (Eds.) (2014), . Journal of Environmental Management.
- Hudson P.F. & LaFevor M. (2014), Introduction: Managing and monitoring human impacts on landscapes for environmental change and sustainability, Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1-3.
- Hudson P.F. & LaFevor (2014), Managing and Monitoring Human Impacts on Landscapes for Environmental Change and Sustainability, Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1-96.
- Hudson P.F., Sounny-Slittine M.A. & LaFevor M. (2013), A new longitudinal approach to assess hydrologic connectivity: Embanked floodplain inundation along the lower Mississippi River, HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES 27(15): 2187-2196.
- Hudson P.F. & Inbar M. (2012), Land Degradation and Geodiversity: Anthropogenic Controls on Environmental Change (peer reviewed special issue), Land Degradation and Development 23(4): 307-426.
- Hudson P.F. (2012), Geomorphic Adjustment of the San Marcos River, Texas to Environmental Management for Removal of an Invasive Water Plant, Cryptocoryne beckettii. Final Report (reviewed). Austin, TX: U.S. Fish & Wildlife, Texas Parks & Wildlife.
- Hudson P.F. & Inbar M. (2012), Geodiversity and land degradation: Anthropogenic and natural drivers of environmental change, Land Degradation and Development 23(4): 307-309.
- Hudson Paul F., Heitmuller Franklin T. & Leitch Maraigh B. (2012), Hydrologic connectivity of oxbow lakes along the lower Guadalupe River, Texas: The influence of geomorphic and climatic controls on the "flood pulse concept", Journal of Hydrology 414: 174-183.
- Benito G. & Hudson P.F. (2010), Flood Hazards: The Context of Fluvial Geomorphology, Ch. 10. In: Alcántara-Ayala I. & Goudie A. (Eds.), Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention: Cambridge University Press. 110-128.
- Hudson P.F. (2010), Formation and Dynamics of Floodplain Lakes along the Lower Guadalupe, San Antonio, and Brazos Rivers, Texas. Final Report (reviewed). Austin, TX: Texas Water Development Board.
- Heitmuller F.T. & Hudson P.F. (2009), Downstream trends in sediment size and composition of channel-bed, bar, and bank deposits related to hydrologic and lithologic controls in the Llano River watershed, central Texas, USA, Geomorphology 112(3-4): 246-260.
- Hudson P.F., Butzer K.W. & Beach T.P. (2008), Fluvial Deposits and Environmental History: Geoarchaeology, Paleohydrology, Adjustment to Environmental Change. Geomorphology no. 101. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Hudson P.F., Butzer K.W. & Beach T.P. (2008), Fluvial deposits and environmental history: Synthesis, Geomorphology 101(1-2): .
- Hudson P.F. (2008), Natural Levees. In: Trimble S.W., Steward B.A. & Howell T.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Water Science, 2nd Edition (reviewed) 763-767.
- Hudson P.F. (2008), Alluvial River Channels (reviewed). In: Trimble S.W., Steward B.A. & Howell T.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Water Science, 2nd Edition 991-997.
- Hudson P.F. (2008), Alluvial Channels. In: Trimble S.W., Steward B.A. & Howell T.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Water Science, 2nd Edition (reviewed) 991-997.
- Hudson P.F. (2008), Deltas. In: Trimble S.W., Steward B.A. & Howell T.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Water Science, 2nd Edition (reviewed) 152-156.
- Hudson P.F., Butzer K.W. & Beach T.P. (2008), Scope and context of the 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Geomorphology 101(1-2): .
- Hudson P.F., Butzer K.W. & Beach T.P. (2008), Scope and context of the 39th Annual Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium, Geomorphology 101(1-2): viii – xi.
- Hudson P.F. & Beach T.P. (2008), Dedication to Karl W. Butzer, Geomorphology 101(1-2): .
- Hudson P.F., Middelkoop H. & Stouthamer E. (2008), Flood management along the Lower Mississippi and Rhine Rivers (The Netherlands) and the continuum of geomorphic adjustment, Geomorphology 101(1-2): 209-236.
- Hudson P.F. & Heitmuller F.T. (2008), Rivers and landscapes of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, The Southwestern Geographer 12: 90-123.
- Hudson P.F. & Kesel R.H. (2006), Spatial and temporal adjustment of the lower Mississippi River to major human impacts, Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie Supplementbände 143: 17-33.
- Hudson P.F. & Alcántara-Ayala I. (2006), Land Degradation and Geomorphology, CATENA 65(2): 101-199.
- Hudson P.F. & Alcantara-Ayala I. (2006), Ancient and modern perspectives on land degradation, Catena 65(2): 102-106.
- Hudson Paul F., Colditz Rene R. & Aguilar-Robledo Miguel (2006), Spatial relations between floodplain environments and land use - Land cover of a large lowland tropical river valley: Panuco basin, Mexico, Environmental Management 38(3): 487-503.
- Hudson P.F. & Alcántara-Ayala I. (2006), Geomorphology and Land Degradation, Catena 65(2): 101-199.
- Hudson P.F., Hendrickson D.A., Benke A.C., Rodiles-Hernandez R. & Minckley W.L. (2005), Rivers of Mexico, Ch. 23. In: Benke A. & Cushing C.E. (Eds.), Rivers of North America: Academic Press, Elsevier. 1030-1084.
- Crews-Meyer K.A., Hudson P.F. & Colditz R. (2004), Landscape complexity and remote classification in Eastern Mexico: Applications of Landsat 7 ETM data, GeoCarto International 19: 45-56.
- Hudson P.F. (2004), Geomorphic context of the prehistoric Huastec floodplain environments: lower Panuco basin, Mexico, Journal of Archaeological Science 31(6): 653-668.
- Hudson P.F. (2004) Review of Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change. Review of: Brown A.G. & Quine T.A. (1999), Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change: Wiley. River Research and Applications .
- Hudson P.F. (2003), Floodplains: Environment and Process (peer reviewed special issue), Geomorphology 56(3-4): 223-352.
- Hudson P.F. & Heitmuller F.T. (2003), Local- and watershed-scale controls on the spatial variability of natural levee deposits in a large fine-grained floodplain: Lower Panuco Basin, Mexico, Geomorphology 56(3-4): 255-269.
- Hudson P.F. (2003), Floodplains: Environment and Process (peer reviewed special issue), Geomorphology 56(3-4): 223-352.
- Hudson P.F. (2003), Floodplains: Environment and process (introduction), Geomorphology 56(3-4): 223-224.
- Hudson P.F. (2003), The influence of the El Nino Southern Oscillation on suspended sediment load variability in a seasonally humid tropical setting: Panuco Basin, Mexico, Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 85A(3-4): 263-275.
- Hudson P.F. (2003), Event sequence and sediment exhaustion in the lower Panuco Basin, Mexico, Catena 52(1): 57-76.
- Hudson P.F. & Colditz R.R. (2003), Flood delineation in a large and complex alluvial valley, lower Panuco basin, Mexico, Journal of Hydrology 280(1-4): 229-245.
- Walker H.J. & Hudson P.F. (2003), Hydrologic and geomorphic processes in the Colville River delta, Alaska, Geomorphology 56(3-4): 291-303.
- Hudson P.F. (2002), Floodplain styles of the lower Pánuco basin, Mexico, Journal of Latin American Geography 1: 58-68.
- Steinberg M.K. & Hudson P.F. (2002), Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern U.S. and Latin America no. 36. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience & Man, Louisiana State University Press.
- Steinberg M.K. & Hudson P.F. (2002), Introduction. In: Steinberg M.K. & Hudson P.F. (Eds.), Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America no. 36. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience & Man, Louisiana State University Press. 9-12.
- Hudson P.F. (2002), Historic Channel Behavior of the Lower Mississippi River. In: Steinberg M.K. & Hudson P.F. (Eds.), Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America no. 36. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Geoscience & Man, Louisiana State University press. 309-323.
- Hudson P.F. (2002), Pool-riffle morphology in an actively migrating alluvial channel: The Lower Mississippi River, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 23(2): 154-169.
- Hudson P.F. (2001), Fluvial and Karst Processes and Landforms. In: , Encyclopedia of World Geography: Salem Press.
- Hudson P.F. (2000), Discharge, sediment, and channel characteristics of the Rio Pánuco, Mexico, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. no. 26 61-70.
- Hudson P.F. (2000) Review of, Varieties of Fluvial Form. Review of: Miller A.J. & Gupta A. (1999), Varieties of Fluvial Form: Wiley. Geomorphology 35.
- Hudson P.F. & Kesel R.H. (2000), Channel migration and meander-bend curvature in the lower Mississippi River prior to major human modification, Geology 28(6): 531-534.
- Hudson P.F. & Kesel R.H. (1999) Review of, Fluvial Form and Process: A New Perspective. Review of: Knighton D. (1998), Fluvial Form and Process: A New Perspective: Wiley. Geomorphology 28.
- Hudson P.F. (1998), Assessment of historic erosion rates in the Lower Mississippi River, Proceedings, GIS/LIS '98. . Ft. Worth, TX: GIS/LIS. 17-24.
- Hudson P.F. & Mossa J. (1997), Discharge and suspended sediment dynamics of Texas rivers. no. 139-146. Ft. Worth, TX: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
- Hudson P.F. & Mossa J. (1997), Suspended sediment transport effectiveness of three large impounded rivers, U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain, Environmental Geology 32(4): 263-273.