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Research Area: Groundwater

Rich Crane

Rich’s key research and teaching areas are extractive metallurgy, materials science, nanotechnology and applied geochemistry for a range of applications including the development of novel mining techniques, mine site reclamation, waste treatment, water treatment and contaminant transport.

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Guangtao Fu

Guangtao Fu

Guangtao’s research is focused on developing and applying new computer models, data analytics and artificial intelligence tools to tackle urban water challenges in water supply resilience, network leakage, flood risk, urban stormwater and wastewater management.

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Raziyeh Farmani

Raziyeh Farmani

Raziyeh specialises in urban water systems modelling, water resources management and asset management and has expertise in multi-objective optimisation of water networks. Her research interests covers evolutionary optimisation, artificial intelligence and data mining.

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Gillian Bristow

Gill’s research covers regional economic development; regional economic resilience; local and regional competitiveness; and regional policy.

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Katerina Kaouri

Katerina’s research covers deterministic and stochastic modelling; fluid mechanics; mathematical biology; asymptotic methods; aquifer and water resource management modelling

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Mark Cuthbert

Mark’s research groundwater recharge; surface water-groundwater interactions; groundwater flow and transport processes; climate-groundwater interactions and paleohydrology.

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Michael Harbottle

Michael’s research interests include biotechnology in contaminated land remediation; lectrical properties of soil and groundwater; resource recovery from waste and biogeotechnics.

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Albert Chen

Albert Chen

Albert’s research focuses on water and human environment systems. Particular focus is on: hydraulic modelling, urban drainage, flood forecasting, innovation technology applications, water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus, climate change impact on critical infrastructure, prediction of water-borne disease, hazard impact and cascading effects assessment, and mitigation and resilience strategies.

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Michael Singer

Michael’s research covers ecohydrology; drought and water scarcity; forest health; stochastic hydrology; climate change; floods; Sediment transport; hydrology and geomorphology.

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David Butler

DAVID BUTLER

David’s research area is urban water management, including sustainable and resilient water systems, integration and control and water-energy-carbon interactions.

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Nicholas Howden

Nicholas Howden

Nicholas’ research aims to provide a better understanding of how climate, land use and land management affect the quantity and quality of surface and groundwater over the short and long term. Interests include the diffuse transport of nitrate from agricultural watersheds.

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Adrian Healy

A UKRI Future Research Fellow, Adrian’s research focuses on the resilience of people and places, urban groundwater and water resilience in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kate Baker

Kate Baker

Based in the Centre for Water Systems, Kate is the lead for community engagement on two European Union funded projects, NextGen (Living Labs for Circular Economy in the Water Sector) and LOTUS (International Cooperation for Low-cost innovative Technology for water quality monitoring and water resources management for Urban and rural water Systems in India).

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Animal Physiology Antimicrobial Resistance Aquaculture Biogeochemistry Chemistry Circular Economy Climate Change Coastal Community Engagement Conservation / wildlife Contaminants / pollutants Data management Drinking water Drought Ecology Ecosystem services Ecotoxicology Environmental Risk Epidemiology Estuaries Evolutionary biology Extreme Events Fish / fisheries Flooding Freshwater Genetics and genomics Geochemistry Groundwater Human health Hydrology Informatics Lakes and reservoirs Marine Microbiology Modelling Molecular dynamics Pathogens Pollutants Rainfall Renewables / energy use Rivers Social Science Sustainable behaviours Wastewater Water systems

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  • Water Innovation and Research Centre (Bath)
  • Water Initiative (Bristol)
  • Water Research Institute (Cardiff)
  • Centre for Water Systems (Exeter)
  • The Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (Exeter)

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