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Research Overview

Research

Nick’s research focuses on rainfall-runoff processes and within upland UK & equatorial tropics.

Runoff pathways are regulated by meteorological & watershed effects and changed by our interventions, sometimes positively in the form of nature-based solutions (NbS). Changes in these hydrological pathways and processes are often key to methods for mitigating water pollution issues, in addition to reducing the risk of floods or droughts.

Current rates of development are giving profound changes to the water cycle (), but advances in the design of NbS can give positive outcomes for flood mitigation () and pollution mitigation ().

Quantifying changes in these processes has demanded the use of new field sensor technology (), and parsimonious modelling involving interpretative machine learning (iML) or physics-based approaches (; ; ).

Ongoing research projects where Nick is the Principal Investigator at 快播视频 include:

• Flood mitigation effectiveness of NFM interventions within the Cumbria Innovative Flood Resilience project ('CiFR-快播视频’)
• Cumbrian NFM effectiveness monitoring network ('C-NFM’)
• Chief Science Advisor to NERC Flood and Drought Research Infrastructure
• Brampton NFM effectiveness monitoring (‘e-Brampton’)
• Effectiveness of SWEF water restoration interventions (‘SWEF-e’)

Recent research projects included:

• Quantifying the likely magnitude of nature-based flood mitigation effects across large catchments ('NERC Q-NFM’)
• Quantifying the benefits of NFM: Equivalent volume metrics (‘eVol-WwNP’)

Nick has a long-term research commitment to catchment monitoring (i.e., the discipline of hydrometry), particularly when combined with numerical modelling, see e.g., the . For further details of Nick’s research publications and projects click these links and use the tabs above.

Research-led teaching and training

Nick in 2025-6 teaches the core Year 1 and Year 2 hydrology courses and a third year field-course based at the Slapton Ley Field Studies Centre:

• LEC.174 Hydrology: water in the environment
• LEC.275 Catchment Hydrology
• LEC.370 Hydrological Processes Field-course

These courses are available to the BSc Environmental Science programme, BSc Physical Geography programme, and other programmes in LEC. Nick also teaches undergraduate, masters and PhD research projects in field hydrology and hydrological modelling and is the Director of the MSc Sustainable Water Management and PgCert/PgDip/MSc Flood and Coastal Risk Management, and PgCert Flood Risk Management (Department for Infrastructure) programmes:

• (2025-7)
• MSc Sustainable Water Management (2025-6)
• PgCert Flood Risk Management (for DfI)
• PgCert/PgDip/MSc Flood & Water Management (2026-)

Nick is the author of the first eight chapters (focusing on hydrometry) of the latest edition of the hydrology reference text:

News

Research and teaching items that have appeared in news articles:

• Improving UK's resilience to floods and droughts (LU News 3 Sep 2024)
• Environmental expertise in House of Lords flood mitigation report launch (LU News 30 Apr 2024)
• Creating a UK network to help tackle flood and drought risk (LU News 22 Feb 2023)
• Can beavers help reduce flood peaks? (LU News 19 Jan 2021)
• Interview on natural interventions to reduce flood risk in Cumbria on the fifth anniversary of Storm Desmond (BBC Radio Cumbria, 4 Dec 2020)
• In praise of hydrology (LU News 9 Oct 2019)

For further information, see Nick’s personal webpages