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Professor Jim Best is a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton (2014–2017), hosted by Professor Stephen Darby in the Geography & the Environment department. His collaboration focuses on advancing research into monsoon-affected river dynamics, sedimentology, and Parametric Echo-Sounding (PES) techniques applied to Cambodia’s river systems. Key activities included fieldwork in Cambodia (2014–2015) and a 2015 public lecture titled *Big Rivers: Dilemmas of the Past, Present and Future*.
Research priorities include studying channel migration on rivers like the Mekong and integrating PES imaging for sequence stratigraphy analysis. The fellowship strengthens ties between Southampton and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Best holds his primary appointment in the Department of Geology.
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