Jay le Roux

Jay le Roux is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of the Free State. His research focuses on soil erosion and land degradation in mountain environments, emphasizing the impacts of agricultural intensification and climate change on sediment transport and hydrological connectivity.

• Department: Geography
• Institution: University of the Free State

Research Interests:

• Land degradation assessment, mapping, and monitoring using GIS
• Spatial modeling of soil erosion risk
• Sediment transport dynamics
• Hydrological connectivity in mountain catchments
• Application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) at varying scales

His work addresses both on-site productivity loss and off-site consequences like reservoir sedimentation, aiming to identify erosion sources and processes through hydrological modeling.