Co-Directors

Prof. Louise Heathwaite
Research Interests: diffuse pollution; solute and sediment transport processes; wetland hydrochemistry

Prof. Phil Haygarth
Research Interests: Soil and water biogeochemistry, bio-physical processes controlling nutrient and colloid release from soils; solutions for agricultural diffuse pollution and water quality across scales

Associated Faculty

Prof. Keith Beven (Environmental Science)
Research Interests: Rainfall-Runoff Models; Uncertainty Estimation; Flood Risk Management

Prof. Andy Binley (Environmental Science)
Research Interests: development and application of geophysical methods for hydrological characterisation; tracers in hydrology; vadose zone hydrology; groundwater - surface water interaction; hyporheic zone processes.

Dr John Quinton (Environmental Science)
Research Interests: diffuse pollution, soil erosion, phosphorus, soil science, soil management, environmental tracing.

Dr Nick Chappell (Environmental Science)
Research Interests: tropical forest hydrology, hillslope hydrology, hydraulic property characterisation, Data-Based-Mechanistic modelling for hydrological time-series, tropical forestry management, tropical erosion, tropical hydro-climatology

Dr Nigel Watson (Geography)
Research Interests: integrated land and water management, development of alternative systems of governance for river basin management.

Dr Hao Zhang (Environmental Science)
Research Interests: advanced environmental analytical techniques; biogeochemical processes affecting trace metals in soils, sediments and natural waters.

Dr Will Medd (Geography)
Research Interests: developing sociological approaches to inform debates about sustainability in the water sector, spatial-temporal intersections between institutional processes, social-technological relations.

Research Staff

Dr Clare Deasy
Research Interests: Diffuse pollution, soil erosion, experimental scales, catchment management

Dr David Oliver
Research Interests: Pathways and fate of faecal indicator organism export from agricultural land, livestock waste recycling

Dr Trevor Page
Research Interests: Uncertainty in modelling environmental systems, the value of data in constraining model estimates

Dr Rob Fish
Research Interests: Integrated land and water management, participatory governance, scenario building, interdisciplinarity

Dr Neil Mullinger
Research Interests: Groundwater-surface water interactions, nutrient dynamics, diffuse pollution, passive and in-situ sampling, unstable isotope tracers.

Dr Sami Ullah
Research Interests: Biogeochemistry of Nitrogen and Carbon in wetland, forest and cultivated soils and hyporheic sediments

Dr Ting Zhang
Research Interests: spatial pattern analysis and statistics, phosphorus delivery, diffuse pollution, faecal indicators

Laboratory Manager

Dr Paddy Keenan
Research Interests: Analytical chemistry, in-situ monitoring, environmental risk of biosolids recycling to land, ecotoxicology, genotoxicology, environmental biotechnology

Laboratory Technician

Laura Barringer
Research Interests: Analytical techniques, method development, microbial techniques

Visiting Intern Student

Anne Petit
Research Interests: Analytical techniques, method development, environmental management

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Marie Curie Early Career Researcher

Raphael Treffny
Research Interests: Environmental management, multi-level governance, public participation

PhD Students

Daniel Käser
Research Interests: Groundwater-surface water interactions, diffuse pollution, high resolution remote sensing

Mary Ockenden
Research Interests: Diffuse pollution, runoff generation and connectivity, soil moisture patterns, water quality protection zones

External Collaborators

University of Bristol

Dr Jim Freer
Research Interests: Uncertainty analysis in environmental modelling, field experiments and computer model simulations to understand process mechanisms for hydrology and water quality, phosphorus modelling in agricultural systems, flood forecasting and flood inundation under climate change, hillslope processes, catchment hydrology.

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

Prof. Alan Jenkins
Research Interests: Hydrochemical modelling

Prof. Roger Pickup
Research Interests: Bacterial detection, microbial community structure

Dr Stephen Maberly
Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, nutrient enrichment in lakes, links between catchment and lake processes

Dr Alex Elliott
Research Interests: General theoretical ecology, effects of disturbance events, relationships between environmental drivers and water quality

Dr Paul Scholefield
Research Interests: Decision support systems and modelling, diffuse nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from agricultural land, lab analytical methods, experimental design, non-anthropogenic emissions modelling and plant ecophysiology.

Dr Andrew Crowe
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Geographic Information Systems, Elemental Storage in Soils, Interdisciplinary Research

Keele University

Dr Stefan Krause
Research Interests: Groundwater-surface water interactions, Hyporheic zone processes, Diffusive pollution and pathways, Hydrological controls on wetland ecology, Model coupling, Scale issues in modelling, Experimental field studies.