Water research scientists at Leeds
water@leeds group members
Please contact the water@leeds project coordinator (water@leeds.ac.uk) for all general enquiries or use our general contact us form. For more specific enquiries, the individual members below can be contacted.
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water@leeds associates are listed here.
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| Olalekan Adekola School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3330 Email: gyoaaa@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Analysis of networks and institutions of wetland users in Nigeria |
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| Jing An Faculty of Biological Sciences Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7031 Email: bmb3j2a@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Genetic engineering of potatoes to produce energy crops |
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| Prof Andrew Baird School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6834 Email: a.j.baird@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Physical processes of water, and heat and gas transfer in peat soils. |
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| Prof Liane Benning School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5220 Email: l.g.benning.leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Quantitative elucidation of geochemical reaction mechanisms at low to hydrothermal temperatures in inorganic and biogenic systems. |
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| Jeannie Beadle School of Geography Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 343 3345 Email: ill2jmb@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
PhD student. |
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| Prof Tim Benton Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7600 Email: t.g.benton@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Population, evolutionary and conservation ecology, UK Champion for Global Food Security |
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| Dr Jacobus Biesmeijer Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2815 Email: j.c.biesmeijer@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Ecology and behaviour of temperate and tropical pollinators. |
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| Dr Antony Blundell School of Geography Tel: +44 (0) 113 34 30702 Email: a.blundell@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Upland catchment management. |
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| Dr Richard Blackburn Head of Green Chemistry Group Centre for Technical Textiles Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3757 Email: r.s.blackburn@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Green colouration and finishing technology for all fibres, water conservation including effluent reduction. |
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| Prof Simon Bottrell School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5228 Email: s.h.bottrell@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Application of stable isotopes as tracers in deep aquifers, groundwater/unsaturated zone and surface waters including peatlands to understand microbial processes and pollution events. |
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| Prof Denise Bower School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2271 Email: d.a.bower@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Optimisation of the procurement of contracted services. |
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| Dr Lee Brown School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3302 Email: l.brown@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
River hydrology and ecology interface (hydroecology) including Arctic, Alpine and UK upland management. |
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| Kisandra Bynoe School of Geography Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 343 3345 Email: gyknb@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
PhD student. |
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| Dr Ian Burke School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 77532 Email: i.t.burke@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Biogeochemical controls on redox active metal behaviour in natural and contaminated environments. |
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| Dr Miller Camargo-Valero School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 3431957 Email: m.a.camargo-valero@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Miller has experience in water and wastewater engineering in developing countries, particularly in topics related to disinfection by-products control in drinking water treatment, natural domestic wastewater treatment and nutrient removal in effluents from waste stabilisation pond systems. |
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| Dr Jonathan Carrivick School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3324 Email: j.l.carrivick@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Geomorphology, specifically cold climate earth surface processes and landforms and high-magnitude fluvial processes (glacial outburst floods and bedrock channels). |
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| Faith Chan School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3336 Email: geoksc@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Transboundary water governance in Pearl River Region between Mainland China and Hong Kong |
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| Dr Pippa Chapman School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6837 Email: p.j.chapman@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Terrestrial and aquatic nutrient cycles, impacts of atmospheric deposition and land use management on nitrogen and phosphorus in soil and surface waters, impacts of storms on water quality, and hydrochemistry of upland ecosystems. |
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| Prof Yulong Ding Institute of Particle Science and Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2747 Email: y.ding@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Nanoparticle engineering, smart responsive reactors, energy storage, hydrogen production and carbon dioxide capture, multiphase flow and heat transfer. |
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| Prof Andy Dougill School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6837 Email: a.j.dougill@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Soil degradation, agricultural development, participatory & environmental monitoring. |
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| Dr Alison Dunn Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2856 Email: a.dunn@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Biological invasions of aquatic communities |
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| Barbara Evans School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1990 Email: b.e.evans@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Water and wastewater engineering and water supply and sanitation in developing countries. |
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| Prof Jane Francis School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6761 Email: j.e.francis@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Palaeoclimatology and palaeobotany for climate interpretation. |
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| Dr Alan Gadian School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7246 Email: a.m.gadian@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Mesoscale modelling of rainfall and hydrological surface modelling. |
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| Ben Gillespie School of Geography Tel: +44 (0) 113 343 3345 Email: gybrg@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Options for reservoir operations to meet European Union Water Framework Directive Good Ecological Potential in regulated rivers. |
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| Prof Emanuel Gloor School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3305 Email: e.gloor@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
To detect and understand current large-scale changes of land and ocean systems due to a changing climate and human activity. |
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| Prof Andrew Gouldson School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0) 113 343 6417 Email: a.gouldson@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Design, delivery and impacts of different forms of environmental policy, planning and regulation including environmental governance, environmental corporate responsibility, economic development and environmental justice. |
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| Dr Richard Grayson School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3336 Email: r.grayson@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Impact of agriculturally derived diffuse pollution on water quality, including both nutrients and sediments, and the role of catchment management approaches for source identification and mitigation. |
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| Dr Stephen D. Griffiths Department of Applied Mathematics Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5186 Email: S.D.Griffiths@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics; mathematical and numerical modelling; waves; ocean tides, and paleotides. |
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| Dr Dabo Guan School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44(0) 113 34 37432 Email: d.guan@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
International climate change policies for mitigation, climate change adaptation, scenario analysis on environmental impacts, water resources accounting and management, input-output modelling and their applications in both developed and developing countries. |
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| Prof Joseph Holden School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6837 Email: j.holden@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Hillslope hydrology, wetland environments and catchment management; upland management, peatland hydrology, water colour, land drainage, carbon processes, soil piping, climate change and flooding. |
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| Dr Nigel Horan Reader in Public Health Engineering School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 233 2296 Email: n.j.horan@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Environmental engineering and microbiology in wastewater treatment and sludge handling. |
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| Dr Brian Irvine Research Fellow School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3300 Email: b.j.irvine@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Land degradation and management, overland flow, sediment transport and turbulent flow processes, soil erosion, water resource management due to anthropogenic and climatic processes, flood frequency analysis. |
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| Yanan Jiang School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3345 Email: gyyj@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Geographical information systems (GIS) in geomorphology including fuzzy logic application to uncertainty. |
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| Dr Kerrylyn Johnston School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3373 Email: k.l.johnston@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Aquatic ecosystems, population dynamics, food webs, habitat use, species interactions and predator prey relationships of freshwater organisms. |
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| Dr Paul Kay School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3328 Email: p.kay@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Impacts of land-use on hydrology and water quality including effects of agriculture, flooding, upland land management and fate/effects of pollutants including nutrients, pesticides, veterniary medicines and sediment. |
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| Dr Gareth Keevil School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6624/6765 Email: g.m.keevil@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Sedimentary processes in submarine channel-levee systems. |
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| Prof Mike Kirkby School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3310 Email: m.j.kirkby@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Hillslope sediment transport processes, relationship between hillslope process and form, hillslope and network hydrology, development of peat growth/ hydrological models, landscape and regional scale models. |
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| Prof Michael D. Krom School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5213 Email: m.d.krom@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Phosphorus cycling in aquatic systems including freshwater and marine sediments, paloeclimatic studies, effect of cloud processing on the bioavailability of iron, water quality processes in mariculture. |
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| Prof Bill Kunin Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2857 Email: w.e.kunin@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Spatial aspects of population and community ecology and conservation biology. |
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| Dr Yim Ling Siu School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6717 Email: y.l.siu@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Environmental risks and sustainability, quality audit for science, and environmental informatics and modelling for transport, energy and the environment. |
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| Dr Vernon Manville School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6624 Email: v.r.manville@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Flood and sediment dynamics. |
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| Prof Duncan Mara School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2276 Email: d.d.mara@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Water and environmental engineering, especially tropical public health engineering and tropical sanitary microbiology (water, sanitation and health in developing countries; sewage treatment and reuse). |
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| Dr John Marsham National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS) School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6473 Email: jmarsham@env.leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Atmopsheric convection and West African meteorology. |
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| Prof Adrian McDonald School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3344 Email: a.t.mcdonald@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Environmental management, particularly resource assessment, natural hazards, microbial dynamics, water colour processes and control, catchment planning and risk, decision support systems, and water demand assessment. |
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| Ana Paula Micou School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3345 Email: geo5apm@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Changes in regional water demand. |
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| Dr Gordon Mitchell School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6721 Email: g.mitchell@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Environmental planning, environmental assessment and natural resource management applied to SUDS pollution screening, urban development, water demand forecasting, urban air quality, and social risk. |
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| Dr Lesley Morrell Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3051 Email: l.j.morrell@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Mechanisms for aggregation in selfish herds, role of colour in Western Rainbowfish shoaling behaviour, trade-offs in social behaviour. |
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| Dr Rob Mortimer School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5251 Email: r.j.g.mortimer@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Biogeochemical processes in sediments; use of innovative high resolution sampling and laboratory microcosm techniques. |
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| Dr Bill Murphy School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5232 Email: w.murphy@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering geomorphology, and uncertainty and error in natural geological and geophysical systems. |
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| Dr Rob Newton School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6763 Email: r.j.newton@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Application of stable isotopic techniques to problems of water provenance and process, including characterising biodegradation processes of various pollutants in groundwater. |
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| Dr Catherine Noakes School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2306 Email: c.j.noakes@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Development and application of mathematical models for environmental fluid flow problems, including water distribution networks, airborne infection and industrial coating and drying processes. |
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| Dr Noelle Odling School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2806 Email: n.e.odling@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Nature of fracture systems in rocks and their influence on fluid flow (hydrocarbons and groundwater) and solute transport. |
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| Prof Jouni Paavola School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6787 Email: j.paavola@.leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
The roles of institutions and social justice in the governance of water resources; participation in the governance of water resources; institutional analysis; water history. |
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| Dr Sheila Palmer School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7991 Email: s.m.palmer@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Response of soil and solution chemistry to environmental change, including acidification and carbon retention and loss from terrestrial environment (forested and upland systems). |
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| Prof Douglas Parker School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6739 Email: d.j.parker@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Dynamics of weather systems, in the tropics and midlatitudes. |
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| Dr Caroline Peacock School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7877 Email: c.l.peacock@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Understanding how molecular interactions control the reactivity and cycling of constituents in the terrestrial and marine environments, focusing on the mineral-water interface and the micro-scale processes that control soil and sediment geochemistry, and the composition of natural waters. |
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| Dr Jeff Peakall Earth Surface Studies and Palaeontology School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5205 Email: j.peakall@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Fluid and sediment dynamics of both natural and industrial systems, including deep-marine sedimentary processes (submarine channels and gravity current dynamics). |
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| Dr Mary Phillips-Jones Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5624 Email: m.k.phillips-jones@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Signal sensing mechanisms in bacteria/regulation of prokaryotic gene expression (two-component signal transduction pathways); virulence control in infection-causing bacteria. |
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| Dr Colin Pitts School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6733 Email: c.s.pitts@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Water pollution control, acidification of fresh waters, biology of cyprinid fishes, ecology of lowland rivers, assessing the benefits of improving water quality, catchment management and water demand management. |
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| Dr Duncan Quincey School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)1970 622 784 Email: djq@aber.ac.uk Personal web page |
High-mountain glaciology (in particular Andean and Himalayan glaciology) and the response of these glaciers to climatic change. |
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| Dr Claire Quinn School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44(0) 113 34 38700 Email: c.h.quinn@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Links between ecological and socio-economic processes in the management and conservation of natural resources. |
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| Prof Rob Raiswell School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5200 Email: r.w.raiswell@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Properties and transport of particulate and colloidal iron phases in rivers and sediments; iron and sulphur cycles. |
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| Dr Sorain Ramchunder School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3312 Email: geosjr@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Influence of peatland management on stream ecosystems. |
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| Dr Chris Rayner School of Chemistry Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6579 Email: c.m.rayner@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Reactive intermediate chemistry; exploitation of carbon dioxide as a solvent and reagent in synthetic organic chemistry; novel photochemical processes; and continuous reactions. |
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| Dr Steven Sait Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7039 Email: s.m.sait@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Population, community and evolutionary ecology. |
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| Dr Susannah Sallu School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7531 Email: s.sallu@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Social-ecological dynamics, resilience and vulnerability, Ecosystem services and rural livelihoods. |
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| Dr Rebecca Slack School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3373 Email: R.Slack@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Chemical exposure assessment for risk assessment including fate and behaviour of anthropogenic contaminants. |
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| Dr Andrew Sleigh Fluid Mechanics School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2308 Email: p.a.sleigh@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Sewer design models, hydraulic modeling including CFD. |
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| Dr Rachael Spraggs School of Earth & Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5203 Email: r.spraggs@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Novel approaches to prevent pollution of groundwater by ammonia. |
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| Kate Staines School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3345 Email: gykehs@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Modelling rapid landscape change due to glacial outburst flooding in southern Iceland. |
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| Mr Neil Stanley School of Law Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5059 Email: n.k.stanley@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Environmental law; planning, water pollution, waste management, nature conservation and EC regulations; risk, public concern and participation; disaster law; corporate error. |
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| Dr Julia Steinberger School of Earth & Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 1631 Email: j.k.steinberger@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Ecological economics, quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and socioeconomic parameters (economic and human wellbeing), and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society |
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| Prof Edward Stentiford School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7571 Email: e.j.stentiford@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Composting process optimisation, laboratory and full scale compost systems, compost stability, waste management in developing countries, bioaerosols, autoclaving. |
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| Dr Lindsay Stringer School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7530 Email: L.Stringer@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Political ecologies of environmental change; land degradation and desertification; participatory processes; environmental governance. |
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| Dr Kelvin Tapley School of Colour Chemistry Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6732 Email: k.tapley@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Capillary electrophoresis, spectroscopic techniques, environmental analysis and effluent treatments; detection of pigments and reactive dyes. |
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| Na'ama Teschner School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3345 Email: gynt@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Desalinisation and the water-energy-climate nexus. |
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| Dr Martin Tillotson Director of Industrial Research for water@leeds School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2295 Email: M.R.Tillotson@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Developing and quantifying impact in the industrial sector and attracting and diversifying funding sources. |
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| Dr Apollo Tutesigensi School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 4678 Email: A.Tutesigensi@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Construction project management. |
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| Dr Zoe Wallage School of Geography Tel: +44 (0) 113 34 30702 Email: Z.E.Wallage@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Upland Peat Catchment Management for Water Colour and DOC Reduction. |
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| Dr Paul Waley School of Geography Tel: +44 (0) 113 34 33338 Email: p.t.waley@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
River restoration and management in Japan. |
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| Dr Xue Wang Institute of Particle Science and Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 2427 Email: x.z.wang@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Toxicity prediction using QSARs (quantitative structure activity relationships) and toxicity risk minimization; statistical control of wastewater treatment plants. |
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| Taoyuan Wei School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 7414 Email: lectw@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Sedimentology. |
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| Dr Anna Wesselink School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 8700 Email: A.Wesselink@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Integrated water management as an interweaving of expertise and interests. |
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| Dr Jared West School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5253 Email: l.j.west@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Development and application of physical and geophysical approaches to the characterization of groundwater processes. |
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| Prof B Marjorie M. Wilson School of Earth and Environment Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5236 Email: B.M.Wilson@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Petrogenesis of continental and oceanic magmatism and its relationship to mantle and lithosphere dynamics. |
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| Dr Clare Woulds School of Geography Tel: +44 (0)113 343 9440 Email: c.woulds@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
Biogeochemical processes in marine sediments. |
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| Professor Nigel Wright School of Civil Engineering Tel: +44 (0)113 343 0350 Email: n.g.wright@leeds.ac.uk Personal web page |
The application of computer methods to flow problems in the built and natural environment: inundation prediction, low-head hydropower, pedestrian-level wind environment and fluid-structure interaction. |
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