Angela Gurnell is a British geoscientist who is Professor of Physical Geography at Queen Mary University of London.
She is particularly interested in how vegetations and fluvial processes interact, and developing novel methodologies to monitor and assess rivers.
She was awarded a personal chair at the University of Birmingham in 1995, where she stayed until she joined King's College London in 2002.
[5] Gurnell believes that these plants are engineers of river ecosystems, impacting the development of landforms (so-called morphodynamics).
In low gradient, lowland rivers aquatic plants determine the bed morphology and channel migration.