Group Leader
Dr Nick Chappell FRGS, FHEA
Reader in Hydrological ProcessesImproving global stewardship, Innovation for a better environment, Sustainable Catchments, Understanding a changing planet, Water Science
Sustainable Catchments
Group Leader: Dr Nick Chappell
Catchments are landscape areas that contribute water, sediments and solutes to downstream locations.
The sustainable use of catchments that support food production, manufacturing industry, jobs, housing, recreation and ecology is critical if we are to deliver beneficial ecosystem services with respect of flood mitigation, water resource availability and water quality.
Our LEC Sustainable Catchments Challenge uses science, scholarship and innovation to address the complexities that link upstream interventions (positive or negative) to the downstream consequences for people, business and environment. We bring together disciplines that include hydrology, biogeochemistry, soil science, crop science, ecology, eco-innovation and social sciences, to tackle these issues in the face of changing local and global pressures.
Ongoing research projects
- Capacity building for a safe circular water economy – ESRC-funded RECIRCULATE project of eco-innovation in Africa (2017-2022)
- Managing water through greater utilization of natural process to reduce flood risk (NERC-funded 2017-2022), involving innovations in modelling uncertainty supported by field experimental work and meaningful stakeholder engagement (NERC-funded 2018-2022)
- Soil Hydrology research platform (SHui) for innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping systems (European Commission-funded 2018-2022)
- Promote via the GCRF Living Deltas Hub Sustainable Development Goals in the Red River, Mekong and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Deltas (UKRI-funded 2019-2024)
- Monitoring network for quantifying the effectiveness of natural flood management across Cumbria (Environment Agency funded 2019-2026)
- Community-based pilot demonstration systems in Ghana and Nigeria (ACTUATE) that will support an accelerated uptake of a safe circular water economy (EPSRC-funded 2019-2021)
- Detecting soil degradation and restoration through a novel coupled sensor and machine learning framework (NERC-funded 2020-2023)
- Maximising Impact by Decision Support Tools (MIDST-CZ) for sustainable soil and water through UK-China Critical Zone science (NERC-funded 2019-2022)
- In Northumbria water catchment monitoring and investigation (Northumbrian Water-funded 2021-2022)
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Northumbrian Water Catchment Monitoring and Investigation Programme
11/10/2021 → 31/03/2024
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Quantifying the impact of 3D effects on 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography data at Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick (Globalink: John Ball)
01/10/2020 → 30/06/2022
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Electrical imaging of surfactant transport in soils
01/02/2020 → 28/02/2021
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Detecting soil degradation and restoration through a novel coupled sensor and machine learning framework
31/01/2020 → 16/09/2024
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Governing Nepal’s water resources through Environmental Impact Assessments
15/12/2019 → 15/12/2021
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ACTUATE : Accelerating the adoption of circular sanitation demonstration systems for improved health outcomes
01/10/2019 → 31/12/2021
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A water balance analysis to support sustainable river basin management in desert River Luni, India
27/05/2019 → 28/06/2019
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Cumbrian Natural Flood Management Effectiveness Monitoring Network
01/02/2019 → 31/05/2026
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MIDST-CZ: Maximising Impact by Decision Support Tools for sustainable soil and water through UK-China Critical Zone science
01/01/2019 → 31/03/2022
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Geophysical Monitoring of the Integrity of Water-retaining Earth Structures (John Ball)
01/10/2018 → 31/12/2022
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Q-NFM : Quantifying the likely magnitude of nature-based flood mitigation effects across large (Additional Funding Stream)
01/07/2018 → 30/11/2022
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Identifying and Evaluating New Environmental Risk Factors for Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Neurological Diseases through Innovative Approaches to Population-Based Exposure Assessment
02/04/2018 → 01/12/2020
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Q-NFM : Quantifying the likely magnitude of nature-based flood mitigation effects across large catchments
01/11/2017 → 31/03/2023
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RECIRCULATE : GCRF: Driving eco-innovation in Africa:capacity-building for a safe circular water economy
01/10/2017 → 31/12/2021
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Magnitude of flood mitigation benefits resulting from tree planting and other measures in Wasdale Beck Catchment (River Lune headwaters)
26/06/2017 → 21/08/2017
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N8 : UK Soya Production for Economic Benefits
01/06/2017 → …
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Testing the 'megadrought' hypothesis : the timing, cause and impacts of climate change in equatorial Africa.
01/06/2017 → 31/05/2021
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EA WWNP-WP2 – National NFM Opportunity Mapping
20/03/2017 → 19/08/2017
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The Water Towers of East Africa : Policies and Practices for enhancing co-enefits from joint forest and water conservation.
01/03/2017 → 31/12/2020
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Improving Air Quality, Energy Efficiency, Well-Being and Productivity in Private and Public Buildings
01/02/2017 → 01/03/2020
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Brake Dust Emissions
01/01/2017 → 30/04/2022
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The Last 100metres : Safeguarding potable water provisioning to urban informal settlements
01/12/2016 → 30/11/2018
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Greening Livestock : Incentive-Based Interventions for Reducing the Climate Impact of Livestock in East Africa
15/09/2016 → 30/09/2019
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STARS CDT: 2016/2017 Added-value activites in innovation
01/08/2016 → …
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Working with natural processes: Life IP natural flood risk management targeting maps
25/07/2016 → 27/05/2017
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Soil-Value: Valuing and enhancing soil infrastructure to improve societal sustainability and resilience
01/06/2016 → 31/05/2021
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AIRPRO - Air Pollution Processes in Beijing
31/01/2016 → 30/07/2018
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Forecasting river levels utilising non stationarity
01/01/2016 → …
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Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in the Processes Controlling Tropospheric Ozone and OH
01/01/2016 → 17/04/2019
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Sources and Emissions of Air Pollutants in Beijing (AIRPOLL-Beijing)
01/01/2016 → 31/12/2019
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Data-Driven Precision Surface Water Management for Urban Environments
01/09/2015 → 31/05/2017
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Novel Rainfall-Runoff Model of the Ulu Segama Basin, Borneo
01/01/2015 → 31/01/2015
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RAPID 2G Magenetometer with Field Tumbling Capability
01/12/2014 → 01/12/2018
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Chappell - CWC Extension Grant
01/10/2014 → 31/03/2015
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Visualising Pathogen & Environmental Risk (ViPER) : an innovation platform to bridge science and decision-making in catchment microbial dynamics
01/10/2014 → 31/03/2015
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NERC - Watershed determinants of terrestrial resource use by aquatic organisms across the world's freshwater hotspots
01/09/2014 → …
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Exploiting root exudation of organic acids and phytases to enhance plant utilisation of soil phosphorus
31/03/2014 → 31/08/2017
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Sediment source tracing, the Tamar basin
03/03/2014 → …
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Magnetic particles in human brains
03/02/2014 → …
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Piloting a Cost-Effective Framework for Monitoring Soil Erosion in England and Wales
01/06/2013 → 31/05/2016
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Third International Tropical Hydrology Workshop
01/06/2013 → 30/11/2013
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Algal Interactions with Freshwater Mussels in the River Ehen
22/03/2013 → 31/03/2020
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The Consortium on Risk in the Environment: Diagnostics, Integrationg, Benchmarking, Learning and Elicitation (CREDIBLE)
01/01/2013 → 31/01/2017
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Analysis and simulation of the long term/large scale interactions of C, N and P in UK land, freshwater and atmosphere
12/11/2012 → 11/11/2015
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U.K. Natural Environment Research Council–Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund studentship
01/10/2012 → …
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ERDF funded Centre for Global Eco-Innovation: Recovery, Reuse and Sustainable Treatment of Glycol Contaminated Surface Water Run-off at Airports.
30/09/2012 → …
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Presentation of the Survey Project Results
17/09/2012 → 30/09/2012
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Water Security - Feasibility Studies: Assessing the feasibility of using novel sub-micron, magnetic sorbent material for the removal of dissolved organic carbon from Blue Water
16/09/2012 → 15/03/2013
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Ecological Continuity Trust: Establishing a Consortium Application
05/09/2012 → 31/12/2013
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Breathe Easier: Adaptation of Passive directional air-pollution sampler
01/09/2012 → …
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Implementing Component 2 of Demonstration Test Catchments
01/06/2012 → 30/09/2017
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magnetic susceptibilty as a proxy for identifying tropical soils affected by erosion, fire, drainage conditions & anthropogenic pollution
01/06/2012 → 31/01/2013
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The Catchment Change Management Hub
02/04/2012 → 29/03/2013
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Chinese Academy of Sciences Collaboration
01/04/2012 → 31/03/2018
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Biodiversity and the water cycle
27/02/2012 → 15/07/2012
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FP7: ROOTOPOWER: Empowering root targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural crops
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2015
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CASE Studentship for Beck Strong - CEH funded
01/10/2011 → …
Other
Catchment Modelling Strategies for Faecal Indicator Organisms: Options Review and Recommendations
01/09/2010 → 01/03/2011
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Quantifying sensitivity of suspended sediment dynamics to environmental change within the upper Ramu
15/03/2009 → 14/03/2010
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FP7: IMPRINTS
15/01/2009 → 15/07/2012
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Modelling effects of changing discharge patterns on lake phytoplankton
01/05/2008 → 31/03/2009
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Radiocarbon dating Bassenthwaite lake sediments
18/06/2007 → 17/09/2007
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FP6: Governat
01/10/2006 → 30/09/2010
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Evaluation of mitigation options for reducing nutrient emission to surface water and groundwater at the river basin scale.
30/03/2006 → …
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