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- About
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- Email Address
- j.geris@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273728
- School/Department
- School of Geosciences
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
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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:
- Oludare Durodola (lead supervisor)
- Antonia Foley (lead supervisor)
- Jennifer Pirie (lead supervisor)
- Martyn Roberts (lead supervisor)
- Ioanna Samakovlis (co-supervisor)
- Utibe Utin (School of Biological Sciences, co-supervisor)
- Jessica Brook (School of Biological Sciences, co-supervisor)
- Liam Godwin (University of Highlands and Islands, co-supervisor)
Recently completed:
- 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
- 2024-2025: '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
- 2023-2024: 'Understanding the relationship between water scarcity and land use in private water supply catchments', £95K, Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), 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
- 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
Completed:
- 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
- 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
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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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Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters
WIREs Water, e1634Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1634
Assessing the role of location and scale of Nature Based Solutions for the enhancement of low flows
International Journal of River Basin Management, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 743–758Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGrassland reseeding: Impact on soil surface nutrient accumulation and using LiDAR-based image differencing to infer implications for water quality
Agriculture, vol. 12, no. 11, 1854Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSurface water-groundwater interactions and local land use control water quality impacts of extreme rainfall and flooding in a vulnerable semi-arid region of Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 609, 127834Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAssessing land use influences on isotopic variability and stream water ages in urbanising rural catchments
Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 277-300Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCOSMOS-Europe: a European network of cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture sensors
Earth System Science Data, vol. 14, pp. 1125–1151Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGrassland Reseeding—Improving Grassland Productivity and Reducing Excess Soil Surface Nutrient Accumulations
Contributions to Journals: Conference ArticlesEstablishing the potential influence of beaver activity on the functioning of rivers and streams and water resource management in Scotland
Commissioned by CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. 33 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsCombining static and portable Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor data to assess catchment scale heterogeneity in soil water storage and their integrated role in catchment runoff response
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 601, 126659Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImportance of short-term temporal variability in soil physical properties for soil water modelling under different tillage practices
Soil & Tillage Research, vol. 213, 105132Contributions to Journals: Articles