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Dr Josie Geris

Dr Josie Geris
Dr Josie Geris
Dr Josie Geris

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Email Address
j.geris@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273728
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School of Geosciences
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Biography

 

  • 2022-: 0.8 FTE Reader in Hydrology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen 
  • 2019-2022: Senior Lecturer in Hydrology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen (leave: August 2019 - May 2020)
  • 2014-2019: Lecturer in Hydrology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen (leave: September 2015 - March 2016)
  • 2012-2014: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Northern Rivers Institute, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen
  • 2008-2012: PhD Degree Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Thesis on: 'Multiscale impacts of land use/management changes on flood response' 
  • 2005-2007: MSc EcoHydrology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. Thesis on: 'Changes in soil physical characteristics and hillslope hydrological response associated with forest conversion to pasture'
  • 2002-2005: BSc Earth Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
Research

Research Overview

My research is focussed primarily on understanding catchment processes at different scales and how these are affected by (environmental) change, with the ultimate aim to better inform sustainable management of catchments for the future. The main drivers of (eco)hydrological processes are sought through the integration of monitoring and modelling of systems. Key research interests include:

  • Vegetation- and soil–water linkages with respect to water storage, transmission and release
  • Flood and drought management using nature-based solutions
  • Multiscale catchment hydrology
  • Detection and prediction of water resources and land use/management practices impacts on catchment hydrological behaviour

These are addressed using field based approaches in conjunction with hydrological modelling at multiple spatial scales, and also include the interpretation of environmental tracers (stable water isotopes), and statistical methods. 

Supervision

Current postdoctoral research fellows:

Current PhD students:

Recently completed:

  • Salim Goudarzi (Postdoctoral researcher; line manager)
  • Martyn Roberts (PhD student, lead supervisor)
  • Liam Godwin (PhD student at University of Highlands and Islands, co-supervisor)
  • Emma Hayes (PhD student at Queens University Belfast; co-supervisor)
  • Eva Loerke (Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD student; lead supervisor)
  • Jessica Fennell (PhD student; lead supervisor)
  • Katya Dimitrova-Petrova (Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD student; lead supervisor)
  • Bas Buddendorf (PhD student; co-supervisor)
  • Lucile Verrot (Postdoctoral researcher; line manager)

Funding and Grants

Current:

  • 2024-2028: The role of surface water - groundwater connections on the potential for managing water supply with nature-based solutions, £100K, PI 
  • 2023-2025: 'Creating healthy and resilient river systems across Scotland: prioritising research and development gap opportunities for river woodlands', £200K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), Co-PI
  • 2023-2025: 'Resilience and vulnerability of water resources under drought conditions - new insights from integrated in-situ and remote sensing approaches', £18K, Royal Society, PI 
  • 2022-2025: 'FARM TREE: Balancing farm and landscape-scale demands for integrating trees on agricultural land', £505K to Aberdeen, NERC, PI
  • 2021-2025: 'Optimising water use and soil carbon sequestration - can agricultural co-cropping systems provide multiple benefits to address climate change?', £173K, Scottish Funding Council via Hydronation programme, PI

Completed:

  • 2023-2024: 'Understanding the relationship between water scarcity and land use in private water supply catchments', £95K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), PI
  • 2023-2024: 'Future predictions of water scarcity in Scotland: impacts to distilleries and agricultural abstractors', £100K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), Co-I
  • 2021-2024: 'Complementary or competitive agroforestry water and nutrient use? – Implications for shade tree management in tropical agroforestry', £12K, Royal Society, PI
  • 2021: 'Establishing the potential influence of beaver activity on the natural functioning of rivers and streams and water resource management in Scotland', £35K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), PI 
  • 2020-2024: 'The role of place and scale on effectiveness of temporary storage areas for surface runoff attenuation', £100K, Scottish Funding Council via Hydronation programme, PI
  • 2019-2023: 'Exploring UAV thermal remote sensing for assessing management implications for stream temperatures', £90K, Macaulay Development Trust, PI
  • 2019-2022: 'MIDST-CZ: maximising impact by decision support tools for sustainable soil and water through UK-China critical zone science', £220K to Aberdeen, NERC, Co-I
  • 2019-2021: 'Plant water use in tea, coffee and cacao agroforestry - benchmarking research challenges and building connections', £15K, Scottish Research Council, PI
  • 2019-2021: 'Plant water availability and use in coffee agroforestry systems – exploring changes in water use strategies', £10K, The Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities, PI
  • 2018-2022: 'Connect4 water resilience: connecting water resources, communities, drought and flood hazards, and governance across 4 countries in the Limpopo basin', £250K, NERC/DFIC, Co-I
  • 2018: 'Water and the circular economy - where is the greatest sustainable economic benefit for resource recovery in the water cycle?', £37K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), Co-I
  • 2017-2022: 'Evaluating nature based strategies in rural landscapes for managing low flows and stream temperatures', £90K, NERC and Chivas Brothers, PI
  • 2017-2020: 'Integrating novel water storage and flow sensing techniques to improve hydrological models/predictions', £70K, Macaulay Development Trust, PI
  • 2017-2018: 'Extreme rainfall and floods in arid regions: replenishment or contamination of water resources?', £56K, NERC Urgency Grant, Co-I 
  • 2016-2018: 'Red Soil CZ: From natural to anthropogenic evolution of Red Soil and its impact on ecosystem function in the Critical Zone', £800K to Aberdeen, NERC, Co-I 
  • 2015-2016: ‘Can novel cosmic ray soil moisture probes be used to address the urgent need for upscaling water storage and flux dynamics in hydrological models?’, £15K, Royal Society, PI
  • 2015-2016: ‘Suspended sediment transport dynamics in tropical volcanic landforms’, £5K, British Society for Geomorphology, PI
  • 2015-2016: ‘Integrated approaches to assess multiscale water sources, flow paths and residence times in changing landscapes’, £7.5K, The Carnegie Trust for Scottish Universities, PI
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Course Co-ordinator and Instructor

  • GG2013 Physical Environments (2nd year course)
  • GG4071 Environmental Hydrology (4th year course)

Additional Teaching

  • GG2508 Skills and Techniques in Geosciences
  • GG2510 Mapping & Monitoring the Environment
  • BSc and MSc thesis supervisor
  • Personal Tutor
Publications

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  • Twenty-three Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH): a community perspective

    Blöschl, G., Bierkens, M. F., Chambel, A., Cudennec, C., Destouni, G., Fiori, A., Kirchner, J. W., McDonnell, J. J., Savenije, H. H., Sivapalan, M., Stumpp, C., Toth, E., Volpi, E., Carr, G., Lupton, C., Salinas, J., Széles, B., Viglione, A., Aksoy, H., Allen, S. T., Amin, A., Andréassian, V., Arheimer, B., Aryal, S., Baker, V., Bardsley, E., Barendrecht, M. H., Bartosova, A., Batelaan, O., Berghuijs, W. R., Beven, K., Blume, T., Bogaard, T., Borges de Amorim, P., Böttcher, M. E., Boulet, G., Breinl, K., Brilly, M., Brocca, L., Buytaert, W., Castellarin, A., Castelletti, A., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chen, Y., Chifflard, P., Claps, P., Clark, M., Collins, A., Croke, B., Dathe, A., David, P. C., de Barros, F. P. J., de Rooij, G., Di Baldassarre, G., Driscoll, J. M., Düthmann, D., Dwivedi, R., Eris, E., Farmer, W. H., Feiccabrino, J., Ferguson, G., Ferrari, E., Ferraris, S., Fersch, B., Finger, D., Foglia, L., Fowler, K., Gartsman, B., Gascoin, S., Gaume, E., Gelfan, A., Geris, J., Gharari, S., Gleeson, T., Glendell, M., Gonzalez Bevacqua, A., González-Dugo, M. P., Grimaldi, S., Gupta, A. B., Guse, B., Han, D., Hannah, D., Harpold, A., Haun, S., Heal, K., Helfricht, K., Herrnegger, M., Hipsey, M., Hlaváčiková, H., Hohmann, C., Holko, L., Hopkinson, C., Hrachowitz, M., Illangasekare, T. H., Inam, A., Innocente, C., Istanbulluoglu, E., Jarihani, B., Kalantari, Z., Kalvans, A., Khanal, S., Khatami, S., Kiesel, J., Kirkby, M., Knoben, W., Kochanek, K., Kohnova, S., Kolechkina, A., Krause, S., Kreamer, D., Kreibich, H., Kunstmann, H., Lange, H., Liberato, M. L. R., Lindquist, E., Link, T., Liu, J., Loucks, D. P., Luce, C., Mahé, G., Makarieva, O., Malard, J., Mashtayeva, S., Maskey, S., Mas-Pla, J., Mavrova-Guirguinova, M., Mazzoleni, M., Mernild, S., Misstear, B. D., Montanari, A., Müller-Thomy, H., Nabizadeh, A., Nardi, F., Neal, C., Nesterova, N., Nurtaev, B., Odongo, V., Panda, S., Pande, S., Pang, Z., Papacharalampous, G., Perrin, C., Pfister, L., Pimentel, R., Polo, M. J., Post, D., Prieto Sierra, C., Ramos, M., Renner, M., Reynolds, J. E., Ridolfi, E., Rigon, R., Riva, M., Robertson, D., Rosso, R., Roy, T., Sá, J. H., Salvadori, G., Sandells, M., Schaefli, B., Schumann, A., Scolobig, A., Seibert, J., Servat, E., Shafiei, M., Sharma, A., Sidibe, M., Sidle, R. C., Skaugen, T., Smith, H., Spiessl, S. M., Stein, L., Steinsland, I., Strasser, U., Su, B., Szolgay, J., Tarboton, D., Tauro, F., Thirel, G., Tian, F., Tong, R., Tussupova, K., Tyralis, H., Uijlenhoet, R., van Beek, R., van der Ent, R. J., van der Ploeg, M., Van Loon, A. F., van Meerveld, I., van Nooijen, R., Van Oel, P. R., Vidal, J., von Freyberg, J., Vorogushyn, S., Wachniew, P., Wade, A., Ward, P., Westerberg, I., White, C., Wood, E. F., Woods, R., Xu, Z., Yilmaz, K. K., Zhang, Y.
    Hydrological Sciences Journal, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 1141-1158
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective

    Penna, D., Hopp, L., Scandellari, F., Allen, S. T., Benettin, P., Beyer, M., Geris, J., Klaus, J., Marshall, J. D., Schwendenmann, L., Volkmann, T., von Freyberg, J., Amin, A., Ceperley, N., Engel, M., Frentress, J., Giambastiani, Y., McDonnell, J. J., Zuecco, G., Llorens, P., Siegwolf, R. T. W., Dawson, T. E., Kirchner, J. W.
    Biogeosciences, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. 6399-6415
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Assessment of water sources and their contributions to streamflow by endmember mixing analysis in a subtropical mixed agricultural catchment

    Lv, Y., Gao, L., Geris, J., Verrot, L., Peng, X.
    Agricultural Water Management, vol. 203, pp. 411-422
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Water and the circular economy - where is the greatest sustainable economic benefit for resource recovery in the water cycle?

    Dionisi, D., Geris, J., Bolaji, I. O.
    Commissioned by CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. 27 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Spatio-temporal effects of river regulation on habitat quality for Atlantic salmon fry

    Buddendorf, W., Malcolm, I., Geris, J., Fabris, L., Millidine, K., Wilkinson, M., Soulsby, C.
    Ecological Indicators, vol. 83, pp. 292-302
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of soil water storage and vegetation water use in humid northern catchments

    Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J. J., Soulsby, C.
    Science of the Total Environment, vol. 595, pp. 486-493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Metrics to assess how longitudinal channel network connectivity and in-stream Atlantic salmon habitats are impacted by hydropower regulation

    Buddendorf, W. B., Malcolm, I. A., Geris, J., Wilkinson, M. E., Soulsby, C.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 2132-2142
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Using geophysical surveys to test tracer-based storage estimates in headwater catchments

    Soulsby, C., Bradford, J., Dick, J., McNamara, J. P., Geris, J., Lessels, J., Blumstock, M., Tetzlaff, D.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 30, no. 23, pp. 4434-4445
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Hydroclimatic controls on non-stationary stream water ages in humid tropical catchments

    Birkel, C., Geris, J., Molina, M. J., Mendez, C., Arce, R., Dick, J., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C.
    Journal of Hydrology, vol. 542, pp. 231-240
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ecohydrological separation in wet, low energy northern environments? A preliminary assessment using different soil water extraction techniques

    Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J., Anderson, J., Paton, G., Soulsby, C.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 25, pp. 5139-5152
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Conceptual modelling to assess hydrological impacts and evaluate environmental flow scenarios in montane river systems regulated for hydropower

    Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., Seibert, J., Vis, M., Soulsby, C.
    River Research and Applications, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1066-1081
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Resistance and resilience to droughts: hydropedological controls on catchment storage and run-off response

    Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 21, pp. 4579-4593
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Stream water age distributions controlled by storage dynamics and nonlinear hydrologic connectivity: Modeling with high-resolution isotope data

    Soulsby, C., Birkel, C., Geris, J., Dick, J., Tunaley, C. L., Tetzlaff, D.
    Water Resources Research, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 7759-7776
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Spatial aggregation of time-variant stream water ages in urbanizing catchments

    Soulsby, C., Birkel, C., Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 13, pp. 3038-3050
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The relative role of soil type and tree cover on water storage and transmission in northern headwater catchments

    Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J. J., Soulsby, C.
    Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1844-1860
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The isotope hydrology of a large river system regulated for hydropower

    Soulsby, C., Birkel, C., Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D.
    River Research and Applications, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 335-349
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions

    Tetzlaff, D., Birkel, C., Dick, J. J., Geris, J., Soulsby, C.
    Water Resources Research, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 969-985
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mapping surface water-groundwater interactions and associated geological faults using temperature profiling

    Bonte, M., Geris, J., Post, V. E. A., Bense, V., van Dijk, H. J. A. A., Kooi, H.
    Groundwater and Ecosystems: IAH Selected Papers. Ribeiro, L., Stigter, T. Y., Chambel, A., Condesso de Melo, M., Monteiro, J. P., Medeiros, A. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, pp. 81-94, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

  • Land use management effects on flood flows and sediments - guidance on prediction

    Ballard, C., Bulygina, N., Cluckie, I., Dangerfield, S., Ewen, J., Frogbrook, Z., Geris, J., Henshaw, A., Jackson, B., Marshall, M., McIntyre, N., Pagella, T., Park, J., O'Connell, E., O'Donnell, G., Reynolds, B., Sinclair, F., Solloway, I., Thorne, C., Wheater, H.
    London: CIRIA. 135 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • The potential for reducing flood risk through changes to rural land management: outcomes from the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium

    McIntyre, N., Ballard, C., Bulygina, N., Frogbrook, Z., Cluckie, I., Dangerfield, S., Ewen, J., Geris, J., Henshaw, A., Jackson, B., Marshall, M., Pagella, T., Park, J., Reynolds, B., O'Connell, E., O'Donnell, G., Sinclair, F., Solloway, I., Thorne, C., Wheater, H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Monitoring and modelling the pre- and post-blocking hydrological response of moorland drains

    Geris, J., Ewen, J., O'Donnell, G. M., O'Connell, E.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Multiscale Experimentation, Monitoring and Analysis of Long-term Land Use Changes and Flood Risk — SC060092: Final Science Report

    Ewen, J., Geris, J., O'Donnell, G., Mayes, W., O'Connell, E.
    Commissioned by Environment Agency. Newcastle upon Tyne. 133 pages
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports

  • Multiscale experimentation, monitoring and analysis of long-term land use changes and flood risk

    O'Donnell, G., Geris, J., Mayes, W., Ewen, J., O'Connell, E.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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