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The following staff members work within the Groundwater science programme. Click on any staff member's name to take you to their personal web page. The staff profiles page enables you to search for any BGS staff member.
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Head of Science: Dr Rob Ward
Dr Rob Ward is a hydrogeologist with over 25 years experience working in both groundwater science and environmental regulation. He is a UK Technical Expert representative on EU and UK Groundwater Working Groups and has recently been responsible for delivering the groundwater elements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and Groundwater Directive for the first River Basin Management Plans (2009). Rob is the author or over 30 refereed journal and conference papers and is the principal author of two ISO standards (5667-18 and 5667-22) and two of the European Commission's WFD Common Implementation Strategy guidance documents (CIS Documents 15 and 18). Rob is also a Fellow of the Geological Society and member of the editorial board for QJEGH.
Groundwater Processes Team Leader: Dr Daren Gooddy
- Tracing and dating groundwater
- Biogeochemical processes
- Groundwater recharge mechanisms
- Impact of agrochemicals and agricultural wastes on groundwater quality
Groundwater Protection Team Leader: Marianne Stuart
- Groundwater pollution (agrochemicals, solvents, cryptosporidium)
- Risk assessment
- Groundwater temperature
- Trend assessment
- Nutrients and climate change
- Economic cost of pollution
Groundwater Systems Team Leader: Dr John Bloomfield
- Geological controls on catchment hydrology
- Climate change and extreme events
- Groundwater level prediction
- Systems analysis methods applied to the groundwater compartment
- Groundwater ecology
Hydrogeologists
Dr Alan MacDonald
Principal Hydrogeologist
- International groundwater development and management
- Groundwater, climate change and extreme events
- Groundwater and catchment science
- Interdisciplinary groundwater studies, particularly the links between water security and livelihoods
Andrew Butcher
Hydrogeologist
- Hydrogeological properties
- Resource evaluation
- Groundwater catchment processes
- Geophysical borehole logging
Andrew McKenzie
Groundwater Information Manager
- Groundwater and hydrological information systems
- Groundwater flooding
- Groundwater monitoring
- Hydrological Information Systems in India
Brighid Ó Dochartaigh
Hydrogeologist
- Groundwater in difficult (e.g. low permeability or dryland) environments
- Urban groundwater
- Groundwater chemistry in Scottish aquifers
- Groundwater resource management in developing countries
- Climate change and groundwater
David Allen
Hydrogeologist
- Catchment conceptual hydrological models
- Groundwater-surface water interaction
- Physical hydrogeology
David Macdonald
Hydrogeologist
Head of Station BGS Wallingford
- Groundwater policy and management
- Groundwater resource assessment
- Groundwater flooding
- Raising awareness of groundwater issues
Emily Crane
Hydrogeologist
- Hydrogeological aspects of thermogeology
- Pathogen transport in the subsurface
- Urban groundwater
Helen Bonsor
Hydrogeologist
- International water resources
- Use of remote sensing data in groundwater science
- Impact of climate change on groundwater
- Groundwater flooding
- Sedimentology of Moine Supergroup
Kate Griffiths
Hydrogeologist
- Groundwater chemistry of UK aquifers
- Field techniques
- Characterisation of aquifers
- Groundwater monitoring
- Catchment hydrogeology
Dr Lou Maurice
Hydrogeologist
- Karst hydrogeology
- Tracer testing (borehole and catchment scale) using artificial tracers (fluorescent dyes, bacteriophages, DNA, and fluorescent microspheres)
- Groundwater ecology
Melinda Lewis
Senior Hydrogeologist
- Ground source heat pump systems
- Hydrogeological and groundwater vulnerability maps
Mike Bird
Hydrogeologist
- Aquifer properties
- Database content
Dr Nick Robins
Hydrogeologist
- Optimisation of groundwater utilisation in water scarce areas
- Groundwater in low permeability, hard fractured rocks
- Groundwater and drought
- Coastal and island groundwater issues
Dr Rachel Dearden
Contaminant Hydrogeologist
- Fate, transport and attenuation of light and dense non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL)
- Transport of organic solvents
- Enhanced in-situ bioremediation of NAPL
- Heterogeneity of river terrace gravel deposits
- Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
Stephanie Bricker
Hydrogeologist
- Superficial hydrogeology
- Groundwater - surface water processes
- Hydrogeology of the Thames Basin
- Aquifer properties of deep saline formations
Dr Vanessa Banks
Hydrogeologist
- Stratigraphical and structural influences on hydrogeology and engineering geology
- Characterising the hydraulic properties of mine waste
- Environmental impacts of abandoned mines
- Application of the concepts of hydrogeological domains and urban hydrology to 3D modelling.
- Ground models for landfill environments
Hydrochemists and hydrogeochemists
Dr Barbara Palumbo-Roe
Hydrogeochemist
- Acid mine water analysis and mine waste characterisation; mine water treatments
- Biogeochemistry of mine tailings
- Hyporheic zone biogeochemistry
- Isotopes as environmental tracers
- Catchment-scale studies of contaminants in mining impacted river systems
Dr Corinna Abesser
Hydrogeochemist
- Groundwater chemistry and modelling
- Groundwater-surface water processes
- Groundwater flow modelling
- Data mining and statistical analysis
- Minor and trace elements in groundwater and surface waters
Dan Lapworth
Environmental Chemist
- International water resources
- Biogeochemical processes
- Groundwater-surface water processes
- Impact of diffuse pollution on groundwater quality
- Colloidal transport of contaminants
- Organic matter fluorescence in the environment
Dr W George Darling
Hydrogeochemist
- Stable isotopes as tracers of the hydrological cycle
- Groundwater residence time assessment
- Dissolved gases as indicators of geochemical processes
- Geothermal resource characterisation
- Evaluating surface water-groundwater interaction
- Characterisation of palaeo-climate by isotopic and noble gas methods
Dr Jenny Bearcock
Hydrochemist
- Baselines of groundwater and surface water geochemistry
- Geochemistry and remediation of contaminated mine drainage
- Geochemical survey
Dr Pauline Smedley
Principal Hydrogeochemist
- Processes controlling mobilisation and transport of trace elements of health concern
- The baseline chemistry of groundwaters
- Inorganic chemistry of bottled water
- Corrosion and encrustation in groundwater installations and aquifers
Groundwater modellers
Dr Andrew Barkwith
Groundwater Modeller
- Groundwater science
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Atmospheric science
- Climate change
Dr Andrew Hughes
Groundwater Modeller
- Object oriented groundwater model development, particularly for groundwater recharge
- Stakeholder uptake of modelling results
- Simulation of groundwater flooding
- Gas movement through the unsaturated zone
- Integrated Environmental Modelling
Dr Christopher Jackson
Groundwater Modeller
- ZOOMQ3D groundwater model development
- OpenMI and FluidEarth technology for integrated hydrological modelling
- Groundwater flooding
- Groundwater, climate change and extreme events
- Impacts of climate change on groundwater deployable output
- Numerical methods for groundwater flow simulation
- Pumping test analysis and flow to boreholes
Dr Lei Wang
Groundwater Modeller
- Groundwater modelling
- Agricultural diffuse water pollution (N & P) processes
- CFD (Computational fluid dynamics) code development
- GIS modelling and GIS development
- The impact of land use and climate change on earth processes
Dr Majdi Mansour
Groundwater Modeller
- Pumping test analysis using radial flow models
- Distributed recharge modelling
- Statistical analysis of data downscaling for climate change investigations
- Application of transfer function models for the prediction of groundwater levels
Geologist
Dr Andrew Newell
Senior Geologist
- Applications of GIS, 3D visualisation, LIDAR and borehole imaging in sedimentology and stratigraphy
- Modern and ancient aeolian and fluvial depositional environments
- Sedimentary heterogeneity in aquifers
- Permo-Triassic stratigraphy and depositional systems of NW Europe
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic structural and stratigraphical evolution of southern England
