Ecohydrology

The Water Sciences Research Theme at the University of Birmingham School of Geography Earth and Environmental Studies (GEES) has a large number of researchers, including the ecohydrology team Dr Sophie Comer-Warner, Prof David Hannah, Dr Nick Kettridge, Dr Kieran Khamis, Prof Stefan Krause, Dr Joshua Larsen, Prof Alexandra Milner.  All recent publications from the water sciences research theme team are available on the Water Sciences Research Theme webpages. A few of the publications are listed below also. 

Doctoral Research 

• Forest Edge student Ben Howard is in the final year of his PhD study which is looking at 'INSTREAM WOOD as a control of microbial metabolic activity and a driver of GHG production and nutrient turnover'
• Forest Edge student Jenny Knight is in the final year of her PhD study which is exploring the desirability of forest landscapes in a natural flood management context. 
• PhD student Alex Kulawska's research topic is "On thin ice: predicting the effects of future permafrost thaw on boreal forest ecosystems." As part of her study she has completed and submitted for publication a synthesis of how boreal forests respond to thawing permafrost, proposing a new hypothesis framework to reconcile the conflicting results in the literature. She is now using dendroecological techniques to test some of these hypotheses. Alex recently wrote an article for the Birmingham Brief Thirsty and Drunken Christmas Trees - University of Birmingham   
• Sue Quick is a PhD student investigating the role the water cycle (export/import and storage) plays in carbon transport, in a small temperate oak-hazel woodland. Sue under takes her research at the BIFoR FACE facility so she can investigate under current and future atmospheric conditions. Poster 2021
• Andrea Rabbi is a PhD student investigating soil moisture and temperature dynamics in forests. He compares mature and juvenile forests, and will also look at juvenille forests which are exposed to elevated levels of water. Poster 2021

Recent Publications

Comer-Warner, S.A., Gooddy, DC., Ullah, S., Glover, L., Percival, A., Kettridge, N., & Krause, S. (2019) Seasonal variability of sediment controls of carbon cycling in an agricultural stream, Science of the Total Environment, vol. 688, pp. 732-741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.317

Comer-Warner, S.A., Romeijn, P., Gooddy, D.C., Ullah, S., Kettridge, N., Marchant, B., Hannah, D.M. & Krause, S. (2019) Addendum: Thermal sensitivity of CO2 and CH4 emissions varies with streambed sediment properties, Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 3093 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11185-x

Mao, F., Khamis, K, Krause, S., Clark, J. & Hannah, D. (2019) Low-cost environmental sensor networks: recent advances and future directions. Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 7, 221. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00221

Romeijn, P, Comer-Warner, S.A., Ullah, S., Hannah, D.M. & Krause, S. (2019) Streambed organic matter controls on carbon dioxide and methane emissions from streams. Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 2364-2374. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04243