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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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Using stable isotopes to inform water resource management in forested and agricultural ecosystems
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 365, 121381Contributions to Journals: Review articlesCoupled water-carbon modelling in data-limited sites: a new approach to explore future agroforestry scenarios
Biogeosciences DiscussionsContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2258
Future predictions of water scarcity in Scotland: impact on distilleries and agricultural abstractors.
CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. 113 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsNew data-based analysis tool for functioning of Natural Flood Management measures reveals multi-site time-variable effectiveness
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 635, 131164Contributions to Journals: ArticlesToward a common methodological framework for the sampling, extraction, and isotopic analysis of water in the Critical Zone to study vegetation water use
WIREs Water, e1727Contributions to Journals: Review articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1727
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Time variable effectiveness and cost-benefits of different nature-based solution types and design for drought and flood management
Nature-Based Solutions, vol. 3, 100050Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSurface Measure to Depth (SMeTD): a new low-budget system for 3D water temperature measurements for combining with UAV-based thermal infrared imagery
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, vol. 195, 1533Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLong-term daily stream temperature record for Scotland reveals spatio-temporal patterns in warming of rivers in the past and further warming in the future
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 890, 164194Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723028152
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164194
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20775/1/Loerke_etal_STE_Long_term_daily_stream_VOR.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/20775/2/Loerke_etal_SotTE_Long_term_Daily_VOR.pdf
High-resolution assessment of riverbank erosion and stabilisation techniques with associated water quality implications
International Journal of River Basin ManagementContributions to Journals: ArticlesWeighted risk assessment of critical source areas for soil phosphorus losses through surface runoff mechanisms
Catena, vol. 225, 107027Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMitigating 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: ArticlesUsing LiDAR derived Digital Terrain Models and field data to quantify riverbank erosion and nutrient loading rates
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMultisector Collaborative Groundwater-Surface Water Modelling Approach to Improve Resilience to Hydrological Extremes in the Limpopo River Basin
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsLessons from the 2018 drought for management of local water supplies in upland areas: a tracer-based assessment
Hydrological Processes, vol. 34, no. 22, pp. 4190-4210Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13867
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15203/1/Fennel_etal_hyp_Lessons_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Opportunities and challenges in using catchment-scale storage estimates from cosmic ray neutron sensors for rainfall-runoff modelling
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 586, 124878Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCoffee and shade trees show complementary use of soil water in a traditional agroforestry ecosystem
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 1649–1668Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWater sources for root water uptake: Using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen as a research tool in agricultural and agroforestry systems
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, vol. 291, 106790Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.106790
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15566/1/Isotopes_agriculture_ms_final.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Depth distribution of soil water sourced by plants at the global scale: a new direct inference approach
Ecohydrology, vol. 13, no. 2, e2177Contributions to Journals: ArticlesModern sediment records of hydroclimatic extremes and associated potential contaminant mobilization in semi-arid environments: lessons learnt from recent flood-drought cycles in southern Botswana
Journal of Soils and Sediments, vol. 20, pp. 1632–1650Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing isotopes to understand the evolution of water ages in disturbed mixed land‐use catchments
Hydrological Processes, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 972-990Contributions to Journals: ArticlesExploring extreme rainfall impacts on flow and turbidity dynamics in a steep, pristine and tropical volcanic catchment
Catena, vol. 182, 104118Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of sampling strategy on apparent temporal stability of soil moisture under subtropical hydroclimatic conditions
Journal of hydrology and hydromechanics, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 260-270Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/johh-2019-0006
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12479/1/_0042790X_Journal_of_Hydrology_and_Hydromechanics_The_role_of_sampling_strategy_on_apparent_temporal_stability_of_soil_moisture_under_subtropical_hydroclimatic_conditions.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
A simple modelling framework for shallow subsurface water storage and flow
Water , vol. 11, no. 8, 1725Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIntegration of juvenile habitat quality and river connectivity models to understand and prioritise the management of barriers for Atlantic salmon populations across spatial scales
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 655, pp. 557-556Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.263
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13281/1/Manuscript_Accepted_version.pdf
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- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Spatio‐temporal variability of the isotopic input signal in a partly forested catchment: Implications for hydrograph separation
Hydrological Processes, vol. 33, pp. 36-46Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13309
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13237/1/Cayuela_et_al_2018_Hydrological_Processes.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Hydrology at Aberdeen – thinking about water locally and globally
Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 135, no. 3-4, pp. 267-286Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2019.1695894
Twenty-three Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH): a community perspective
Hydrological Sciences Journal, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 1141-1158Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12542/1/Twenty_three_unsolved_problems_in_hydrology_UPH_a_community_perspective.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02626667.2019.1620507
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective
Biogeosciences, vol. 15, no. 21, pp. 6399-6415Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-6399-2018
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11344/1/bg_15_6399_2018.pdf
Assessment of water sources and their contributions to streamflow by endmember mixing analysis in a subtropical mixed agricultural catchment
Agricultural Water Management, vol. 203, pp. 411-422Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2018.03.013
Water and the circular economy - where is the greatest sustainable economic benefit for resource recovery in the water cycle?
Commissioned by CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. CREW - Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters. 27 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned Reports- [ONLINE] Report available online at
Spatio-temporal effects of river regulation on habitat quality for Atlantic salmon fry
Ecological Indicators, vol. 83, pp. 292-302Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial and temporal patterns of soil water storage and vegetation water use in humid northern catchments
Science of the Total Environment, vol. 595, pp. 486-493Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetrics to assess how longitudinal channel network connectivity and in-stream Atlantic salmon habitats are impacted by hydropower regulation
Hydrological Processes, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 2132-2142Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUsing geophysical surveys to test tracer-based storage estimates in headwater catchments
Hydrological Processes, vol. 30, no. 23, pp. 4434-4445Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10889
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8823/1/Soulsby_et_al_geophysics.pdf
Hydroclimatic controls on non-stationary stream water ages in humid tropical catchments
Journal of Hydrology, vol. 542, pp. 231-240Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.09.006
Ecohydrological separation in wet, low energy northern environments? A preliminary assessment using different soil water extraction techniques
Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 25, pp. 5139-5152Contributions to Journals: ArticlesConceptual modelling to assess hydrological impacts and evaluate environmental flow scenarios in montane river systems regulated for hydropower
River Research and Applications, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 1066-1081Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2813
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Resistance and resilience to droughts: hydropedological controls on catchment storage and run-off response
Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 21, pp. 4579-4593Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10480
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/7572/1/hyp10480_wordversion.pdf
Stream water age distributions controlled by storage dynamics and nonlinear hydrologic connectivity: Modeling with high-resolution isotope data
Water Resources Research, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 7759-7776Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSpatial aggregation of time-variant stream water ages in urbanizing catchments
Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 13, pp. 3038-3050Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10500
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6173/1/HYP_14_0990_R1_Jim_s_edits.pdf
The relative role of soil type and tree cover on water storage and transmission in northern headwater catchments
Hydrological Processes, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 1844-1860Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10289
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4342/1/hyp10289_wordversion.pdf
The isotope hydrology of a large river system regulated for hydropower
River Research and Applications, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 335-349Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.2740
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5576/1/Tay_isotope_paper_revision_final.docx
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Storage dynamics in hydropedological units control hillslope connectivity, runoff generation, and the evolution of catchment transit time distributions
Water Resources Research, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 969-985Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/2013WR014147
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3476/1/Storage_dynamics.pdf
Mapping surface water-groundwater interactions and associated geological faults using temperature profiling
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 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Land use management effects on flood flows and sediments - guidance on prediction
London: CIRIA. 135 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned ReportsThe potential for reducing flood risk through changes to rural land management: outcomes from the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMonitoring and modelling the pre- and post-blocking hydrological response of moorland drains
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] BHS Publications
Multiscale Experimentation, Monitoring and Analysis of Long-term Land Use Changes and Flood Risk — SC060092: Final Science Report
Commissioned by Environment Agency. Newcastle upon Tyne. 133 pagesBooks and Reports: Commissioned Reports- [ONLINE] https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/184930
Multiscale experimentation, monitoring and analysis of long-term land use changes and flood risk
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings