Organization profile

Organisation profile

The Northern Rivers Institute (NRI) is a centre of research excellence in environmental hydrology which delivers internationally leading catchment science to help underpin sustainable water management.

We are located in the School of Geosciences at the University of Aberdeen and our network of monitoring and experimental field sites spreads over the whole of Scotland. In addition, we also conduct experimental field investigations at sites in Zambia, Spain, the USA and New Zealand. The focus of the Institute is developing interdisciplinary approaches to catchment science.

We envision catchments as ecosystems which we have to better understand to inform policy making with regards to climate impacts, land use, disturbance and natural resources management.

Our research is aimed at providing answers to the following questions:

What is the variability in hydrological functioning at the many different space and time scales over which catchments operate?
How should that scale-dependent variability be assessed?
What are the potential implications for short- and long-term predictions of catchment behaviour?

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catchment Earth & Environmental Sciences

groundwater Earth & Environmental Sciences

headwater Earth & Environmental Sciences

runoff Earth & Environmental Sciences

tracer Earth & Environmental Sciences

isotope Earth & Environmental Sciences

water Earth & Environmental Sciences

stable isotope Earth & Environmental Sciences

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Profiles

Jean-Christophe Comte

Geosciences, Geography & Environment - Senior Lecturer
Northern Rivers Institute (NRI)

Person: Academic

Josie Geris

Geosciences, Geography & Environment - Senior Lecturer
Northern Rivers Institute (NRI)

Person: Academic

Christopher Soulsby

Geosciences, Geography & Environment - Chair in Hydrology
Northern Rivers Institute (NRI)

Person: Academic

Research Output 1994 2020

8205 Citations
262 Article
9 Conference contribution
7 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
5 Poster
16 More

1 Citation (Scopus)

Analysis and numerical modelling of large-scale controls on aquifer structure and hydrogeological properties in the African basement (Benin, West Africa)

Dickson, N., Comte, J-C., Koussoube, Y., Ofterdinger, U. S. & Vouillamoz, J-M., 11 Apr 2019, In : Geological Society Special Publications . 479, 1, p. 81-100 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Aquifers

Groundwater

aquifer

Boreholes

groundwater

A simple modelling framework for shallow subsurface water storage and flow

Verrot, L., Geris, J., Gao, L., Peng, X., Oyesiku-Blakemore, J., Smith, J. U., Hodson, M. E., Zhang, G. & Hallett, P. D., Aug 2019, In : Water . 11, 8, 20 p., 1725.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Richards equation

subsurface flow

water storage

water flow

Acrisol

2 Citations (Scopus)

7 Downloads (Pure)

A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation module

Gao, H., Birkel, C., Hrachowitz, M., Tetzlaff, D., Soulsby, C. & Savenije, H. H. G., 13 Feb 2019, In : Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 23, 2, p. 787-809 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

topography

runoff

calibration

catchment

parameterization

Datasets

MAFIO: Model for the Agent-based simulation of Faecal Indicator Organisms

Neill, A. (Creator), University of Aberdeen, 28 Oct 2019

DOI: 10.20392/66f74663-ece3-4a52-8bed-f0cf52d0831a

Dataset

Stable water isotopes in Western Siberian inland waters

Soulsby, C. (Creator), Ala-Aho, P. (Creator), Pokrovsky, O. S. (Creator), Kirpotin, S. N. (Creator), Karlsson, J. (Creator), Serikova, S. (Creator), Manasypov, R. M. (Creator), Lim, A. Y. (Creator), Krickov, I. V. (Creator), Vorobyev, S. N. (Creator), Kolesnichenko, L. G. (Creator), Loiko, S. (Creator), Tetzlaff, D. (Creator), NERC Environmental Information Data Centre, 21 Jul 2017

DOI: 10.5285/ca17e364-638d-4949-befb-b18b3770aec6

Dataset