Staff Profile:Dr Andrew Wade

Name:

Dr Andrew Wade

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

• School Director of Postgraduate Studies
• Physical Geography seminar series co-ordinator 
• Undergraduate Teaching: Hydrological Processes; Environmental Modelling

Areas of Interest:

• Freshwater chemistry and biogeochemical cycling
• Simulation of pollutant transport and storage in river systems
• Process-based models of nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic environments
• Quantification of the ecological impact of water pollution
• Climate-change and hydrology in semi-arid/arid river systems

Research groups / Centres:

Earth Systems Science Research Group

Publications:

Qualifications:

Phd (Aberdeen); MSc (Newcastle Upon Tyne); BSc (Leicester)

Key Facts

Andrew is leading the EPSRC funded project Novel technologies for in situ environmental monitoring: linking sensor development to improved pollutant transport models. 

Andrew is also leading the Catchment Analysis and Modelling work-package in a new FP6 Integrated Project, Eurolimpacs which aims to quantify the impact of global change on freshwater ecosystems, and working on improving models of pollutant transport and storage in UK groundwater-dominated river-systems to assess the time scales of recovery from pollutant inputs ( The NERC LOCAR programme).

As part of the Water, Life and Civilisation project , Andrew is investigating the impact of climate change on civilisation in the Middle East throughout the Holocene, and the likely impacts of climate change on the future water supply of Jordan.

Andrew joined the Aquatic Environments Research Centre in 1998 after completing his PhD, Assessment and modelling of water chemistry in a large catchment: River Dee, Scotland at the University of Aberdeen. The PhD was done part-time whilst Andrew worked on a NERC funded Large-Scale Processes Project based at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Wallingford). On joining AERC, Andrew worked with Prof. Whitehead and Prof. Hornberger (University of Virginia) to create an in-stream model of phosphorus and macrophyte dynamics, and further developed a catchment-scale nitrogen model (INCA-N) with EU FP5 funding.

Member of the British Hydrological Society, European Geosciences Union, American Geophysical Union.