I am a geographer whose primary research focus is on the geomorphology of southern Africa. I taught applied GIS and remote sensing for four years before becoming a consultant in the water resource sector, working as a registered Professional Natural Scientist. As a Research Associated I am involved in a multi-national transdisciplinary research project looking at geobiotic techniques examining landscape evolution in south-central Africa.
I have undertaken scientific field-based research in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia looking at the spatial relationships of landscapes and the species inhabiting them. My additional research and professional interests are mega- and fluvial geomorphology, and the application of remote sensing and GIS techniques to study the environment, focusing on water-human interactions.
- Geography
- Geomorphology
- Geobiology
- Water resources
- PhD Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, 2014
- BSc Honours (Environmental Science), University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007
- BSc (Environmental Science), University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-2773
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R8MbkjUAAAAJ&hl=en
1. Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Mouslopoulou, V., Merchel, S., Cotterill, F., Bookhagen, B., Gärtner, A., Rugel, G., Scharf, A., Nadeau, M., Braucher, R. and Seiler, M. (2021). Quaternary landscape evolution in a tectonically active rift basin (paleo-lake Mweru, south-central Africa). Geomorphology. 381:107669. doi: 1016/j.geomorph.2021.107669
2.Van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D., Kandziora, M., Watters, B.R., Nagy, B., Genade, T., Flügel, T.J., Svendsen, D.S. and Bellsted, D.U. (2021). Genomic Fingerprints of Palaeogeographic History: The tempo and mode of Rift tectonics across tropical Africa has shaped the diversification of the killifish genus Nothobranchius (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 158:106988. doi: 1016/j.ympev.2020.106988
3. Flügel, T.J., Eckardt, F.D., and F.P.D. Cotterill, F.P.D. (2017). The geomorphology and river longitudinal profiles of the Congo-Kalahari Watershed. In: The African Neogene-Climate, Environments and People: Palaeoecology of Africa. 34:31-52. doi: 1201/9781315161808-4
4. Eckardt, F.D., Cotterill, F.P.D., Flügel, T.J., Kahle, B., McFarlane M., and Rowe, C. (2016). Mapping the surface geomorphology of the MakgadikgadiRift Zone (MRZ), Quaternary International, 404:115-120. doi: 1016/j.quaint.2015.09.002
5. Moore, A., Flügel, T., Hutton-Squire, T., Hutton-Squire, M. and Humphrey, G. (2016). Size distribution of Baobabs on Kubu “Island”, Sowa Pan (northern Botswana): an indicator of late-stage evolution of the Makgadikgadipalaeo-lake and climate change?. South African Journal of Geology ; 119 (3): 535–544. doi: 2113/gssajg.119.3.535
6. Smit, H.A.P., Magagula, H.B., and Flügel, T.J. (2016). South African Military Geography: advancing from the trenches. South African Geographical Journal, 98:3, 417-427. doi: 1080/03736245.2016.1208582
7. FlügelJ., Eckardt F.D., Cotterill F.P.D. (2015). The Present DayDrainage Patterns of the Congo River System and their Neogene Evolution. In: de Wit M., Guillocheau F., de Wit M. (eds) Geology and Resource Potential of the Congo Basin. Regional Geology Reviews. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 316-337. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-29482-2_15
8. Grenfell, S.E., Ellery, W.N., Grenfell, M.C., Rasmsay, L.F. and Flügel,T.J.(2010), Sedimentary facies and geomorphic evolution of a blocked‐valley lake: Lake Futululu, northern Kwazulu‐Natal, South Africa. Sedimentology, 57: 1159-1174. doi:1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01141.x
In Press
9. Atkins, J.F., Flügel, T.J. and Hugman, R.T. (in press). The urban water metabolism of Cape Town: towards becoming a water sensitive city. South African Journal of Science.
