Professor Andrew Binley
ProfessorResearch Interests
Andrew completed a PhD in modelling unsaturated flow in heterogeneous porous media in 1986 and then worked with Keith Beven at Lancaster on the development of tools for the estimation and reduction of uncertainty in hydrological models. This work led to the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology.
Andrew obtained a lectureship in groundwater hydrology at Lancaster in 1989. He continued work on model calibration and prediction prompted him to start work in the early 1990s on constraining hydrological models with geophysical data. He has developed new tools for this work (e.g. for inversion of electrical resistivity tomography data) and new approaches for the fusion of hydrological and geophysical data. He has been an active contributor to the field of hydrogeophysics, which has emerged over the past two decades. In 1997 Andrew became Senior Lecturer and in 2004 he was awarded a Personal Chair.
Andrew’s research areas include: (1) groundwater-surface water interaction; (2) fusion (assimilation) of hydrological and geophysical data for improved hydrological characterisation; (3) inverse methods in geophysics; (4) electrical spectroscopy of hydrogeological materials; (5) plant-soil-water exchanges.
He is currently Associate Editor for Water Resources Research and Vadose Zone Journal. He has served as Associate Editor for Journal of Hydrology and Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology. Between 2003 and 2006 Andrew was Deputy Chair of the American Geophysical Union Hydrogeophysics Committee. Between 2006 and 2008 he served as Chair of this committee.
He is currently a member of the Wyoming Center for Environmental Hydrology and Geophysics External Advisory Committee (2012 - ), member of the Advisory Board of HOBE Center for Hydrology, Denmark (2007 - ) and Committee member, Near Surface Geophysics Group, Geol. Soc. (2001 -). He is a past member of the NERC and EPSRC Peer Review panels. Between 2015 and 2017 he served as chair on NERC Discovery Science grant panels.
In 2012 he was awarded the Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award for his long-term contributions to the field of near-surface geophysics, and in particular hydrogeophysics. This award is jointly presented by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS).
In 2013 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), with the citation:“For outstanding contributions toward the fundamental understanding of hydrological model uncertainty and for pioneering the field of hydrogeophysics”
PhD Supervision Interests
Hydrogeophysics, groundwater hydrology
Quantifying the combined nutrient enrichment, pathogenic, and ecotoxicological impacts of livestock farming on UK rivers
01/11/2022 → 31/10/2025
Research
Electrical imaging of potato crop irrigation
01/07/2021 → 31/08/2021
Research
Quantifying the impact of 3D effects on 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography data at Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick (Globalink: John Ball)
01/10/2020 → 30/09/2021
Research
Electrical imaging of surfactant transport in soils
01/02/2020 → 28/02/2021
Research
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
Research
Geophysical Monitoring of the Integrity of Water-retaining Earth Structures (John Ball)
01/10/2018 → 31/03/2022
Research
Applications of precision farming technologies to enhance rotations
01/03/2018 → 31/03/2022
Research
The of Lateral Exchange in Modulating the Seaward Flux of CNP
01/10/2012 → 31/12/2015
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FP7: ROOTOPOWER: Empowering root targeted strategies to minimize abiotic stress impacts on horticultural crops
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2015
Research
NERC funded PhD studentship NE/I527953/1
01/01/2011 → 30/04/2015
Research
Implications of groundwater surface water connectivity for nitrogen transformations in the hyporheic zone
01/01/2009 → 30/04/2012
Research
Case Studentship with BGS (Paul McLachlan)
01/01/1900 → …
Research
NERC (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Rutgers University
Visiting an external academic institution
Vadose Zone Journal (Journal)
Editorial activity
Rutgers University
Visiting an external academic institution
University of Wyoming (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Water Resources Research (Journal)
Editorial activity
National Science Foundation (External organisation)
Membership of committee
University of Copenhagen (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Geological Society (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Frank Frischknecht Leadership Award 2012
Prize (including medals and awards)
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Prize (including medals and awards)
Sustainable Catchments
- DSI - Environment
- Energy Lancaster
- Innovation for a better environment
- Sustainable Catchments
- Understanding a changing planet
- Water Science