Northern Rivers Institute
People
Academic Staff
Professor Chris Soulsby
Professor of Hydrology
Founding member of the Northern Rivers Institute
email: c.soulsby@abdn.ac.uk
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Professor Doerthe Tetzlaff
Professor of Hydrology and Landscape Ecology
Director of the Northern Rivers Institute
email: d.tetzlaff@abdn.ac.uk
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Dr Chris Gibbins
Senior Lecturer
Founding member of the Northern Rivers Institute
email: c.gibbins@abdn.ac.uk
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Professor Jeffrey McDonnell
Sixth Century Chair
email: Jeffrey.McDonnell@oregonstate.edu
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Post Docs
- Michael Kennedy (e-mail: m.p.kennedy@abdn.ac.uk ), funded by EU ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States)
- Rene Capell (e-mail:rene.capell@abdn.ac.uk), funded by Leverhulme Trust
- Christian Birkel (e-mail:c.birkel@abdn.ac.uk)
PhD students
- Scott McGrane: "Effects of climate change on hydrological functioning of upland catchments"
- Cristina Buendia Fores: "Assessing the impact of fine sediments on river invertebrate communities"
- Konrad Piegat: "Non-linear hydrological response to climate change: catchments as complex systems"
- Emma Quinlan: "Assessing the morphological adjustment and ecological response of the River Ehen to the re-alignment of Ben Gill, West Cumbria".
- Jonathan Dick: "Hydrological and biogeochemical heterogeinity of riparian zones"
- Christina Mcleman: "Transport in Fractal Networks: Mathematical Modelling of Scaling in River Basins"
Recently Completed PhD students
- Rene Capell: "Sustaining river flow under climate change – influence of landscape evolution on groundwater resourcesModelling dominant runoff processes using tracers and landscape organisation in larger catchments"
- Christian Imholt : "Influence of climate and riparian management on the hydrological and thermal regimes of streams".
- Mark Speed: "Isotope hydrology of a large river basin"
- Christian Birkel: "Enhancing methodologies for capturing hydrological data in a changing environment"
- Steve Addy : "Influence of base level change on river channels and catchment dynamics"
- Jane Grant : "Hydro-ecology of groundwater - surface water interactions in complex hydro-geological environments"
- Annie Truscott: "Integrating ecological and hydrological approaches to the distribution of riparian plant species"
- Atul Haria: "Riparian surface-groundwater interactions and stream flow generation in upland catchments – implications for water quality"
- Heather Jackson: "Influence of river regulation on macro- invertebrate communities"
Key Collaborators
United Kingdom
- FRS Freshwater Laboratory , Pitlochry
Philip J. Bacon , Iain A. Malcolm, Julian Maclean - Macaulay Institute , Aberdeen
Sarah Dunn , Simon Langan - Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen
Mark J. Brewer - Universities
Susan Waldron (Glasgow)
Jim Freer (Bristol) - British Geological Survey
Alan Macdonald (Edinburgh) - Centre for Hydrology and Ecology
Colin Neal (Wallingford )
International
- Ramon J. Batalla, University of Lleida and the Forestry and Technology Center of Catalonia, Spain
- Lutz Breuer University of Giessen, Germany
- John Buffington, Boise Aquatic Sciences Lab, Idaho, US
- Jim Buttle, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Sean Carey, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
- Rick Cunjak, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Hjalmar Laudon, Dept. Forest Ecology and Management, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
- James Kirchner, University of California, Berkeley, California, US and Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research, Switzerland
- Kevin McGuire, Virginia Tech, US
- James P. McNamara, Boise State University, Idaho, US
- Jamie Shanley, USGS Montpelier, VT, US
- Jan Seibert, University of Zuerich, Switzerland
- Klement Tockner, IGB Leibnitz Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Stefan Uhlenbrook UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Delft , The Netherlands
- Damià Vericat, Forestry and Technology Center of Catalonia, Spain