This list was last updated in March 2026. A full and up-to-date set of my articles can be found on my Google Scholar profile. If you can't access any of these papers or have questions then please get in touch!
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Morris, M. J., Roberts, G. G., Richards, F. D., Lipp, A. G., Siddle, E. R. (2026). ‘Seeing through geomorphic complexity to recover tectonics from topography: Inverting landscapes for uplift histories using the Wasserstein distance'. JGR: Earth Surface DOI: 10.1029/2025JF008966
Morris, M. J., Roberts, G. G. (2025). ‘Impact of Noise on Landscapes and Metrics Generated with Stream Power Models’. Earth Surface Dynamics DOI: 10.5194/esurf-13-1003-2025
Morris, M. J., Lipp, A. G., Roberts, G. G. (2023). ‘Towards inverse modeling of landscapes using the Wasserstein distance’. Geophysical Research Letters 50.14. DOI: 10.1029/2023GL103880
Morris, M., Fernandes, V. M. & Roberts, G. G. (2020). ‘Extricating dynamic topography from subsidence patterns: Examples from Eastern North America's passive margin’. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 530. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115840
Selected Conferences, Workshops & Talks
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📑 EGU 2026: Morris, M., Roberts, G., Richards, F., Lipp, A., Siddle, E. 'Tectonics from topography: Embracing noise and uncertainty in inverse modelling of landscapes' EGU Annual Meeting, Vienna, Austria (May 2026)
📑 BSG 2025: Morris, M., Roberts, G., Lipp, A., Richards, F. 'Seeing Through Nature's Complexity to Understand Landscape Evolution' BSG Annual Meeting, Leeds, UK (Sep 2025)*
*I received the Bernie Smith Award for the best postgraduate talk for this presentation
💬 UCL: 'Signals through the Noise: Identifying Tectonic Histories from Noisy Landscapes' (Aug 2025)
📑 AGU 2024: Morris, M., Roberts, G., Lipp, A., Richards, F. 'Seeing Through the Noise: Extracting Tectonic Histories from Naturally Noisy Landscapes' AGU Fall Meeting, Washington D.C. (Dec 2024) *
*I received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for this poster presentation
🏫 CSDMS ESPIn Summer School: A competitively selected attendee of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System summer school, learning scientific model development, collaborative programming, introduction to Landlab software package. Boulder, Colorado, USA (Jul-Aug 2024)
📑 BSG 2023: Morris, M., Lipp, A., Roberts, G. 'Optimal Transport-based methods for inverse modelling of landscapes' BSG Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK (Sep 2023)