The aims of our research group include the understanding and prediction of flow pathways and transport processes in a wide range of aquatic environments and the application of that understanding to very practical problems. A multidisciplinary approach is taken with strong links to other research groups at Lancaster concerned with environmental chemistry, systems and control and fluvial geomorphology as well as external research groups and industry. Much of the research is concerned with methodological developments that may be applied to a range of different situations and in this the group works very closely with the Environmental Systems and Control Group (ESC)

Current major funded research areas include:

Catchment hydrological models and model calibration (contact KB, NC, JQ)

Uncertainty estimation for environmental models (including the GLUE methodology) (contact KB, AB)

Sediment and nutrient transport to rivers and effects on aquatic ecology (contact JQ, KB, NC)

Land surface to atmosphere linkages and rainfall modelling (contact KB)

Tropical hydrology and effects of forest management (contact NC)

Hydrogeophysics and topmographic imaging of subsurface hydrology (contact AB)

Groundwater/river interactions (contact AB)

Flood forecasting, frequency and inundation modelling (contact KB)

KB (Keith Beven), AB (Andy Binley), NC (Nick Chappell) JQ (John Quinton)