Worldwide rivers and their catchments are under significant pressure from development and climate change. We aim to provide the knowledge, tools and human capacity to enable us to predict and quantify how these environments will respond to changes in land-use and climate, and provide options for sustainable management. Our research aims to quantify the links between flow, physical habitat, nutrient and sediment loads, and aquatic ecosystem functions. It will provide a suite of methods and quantitative models to enable the effects of different land and water management scenarios on rivers, reservoirs, and coastal waterways to be assessed.
Core skills: fluvial geomorphology, eco-hydrology, geochemistry, stable isotope and radioisotope chemistry, geology, optical dating, sediment and nutrient dynamics, catchment scale modelling, remote sensing and GIS, historical (and palaeo) assessments, erosion process modelling, sediment and nutrient tracing, and aquatic ecosystem ecology.