Professor Nick Kettridge BSc PhD

Nick Kettridge

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Ecohydrology
Head of School, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3575
Email
n.kettridge@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
@nkettridge
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Address
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Nick Kettridge specialises in characterizing the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Qualifications

2005 – PhD Geography – University of Sheffield

2002 – BSC Geography – University of Sheffield

Teaching

  • GGM110 Environmental Research Frontiers (Module convener)
  • EVS118 Environmental Science Research Frontiers (Module convener)
  • GGM108 Tutorial and study skills for Geographers
  • GGM216 Research skills and field work.
  • GGM109 Rotterdam field course (Physical Geography Field Lead)
  • GGM308 Wetland Environments (Module convener)
  • GGM506 Environmental Analysis and Modelling
  • GGM301 Geography Dissertations
  • Geography/Geology Dissertations
  • River Environments and their Management dissertations
  • Geography and Environmental Science dissertations
  • Advances in Water Sciences

Postgraduate supervision

Nick Kettridge specialises in characterising the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Much of Dr Kettridge’s research focuses on peatlands and aims to understand the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Dr Kettridge welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.

Research

Dr Nick Kettridge specializes in characterizing the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Howard, BC, Baker, I, Buytaert, W, Drummond, J, Kettridge, N, Ullah, S & Krause, S 2025, 'Effects of instream wood reintroduction on transport and storage processes in a lowland sandy stream', Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 13, 1593726. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2025.1593726

Asuk, SA, Wayman, JP, Sadler, JP, Pugh, TAM, Matthews, TJ, Ebu, VT, Phillips, OL, Lewis, S, Sonké, B, Talbot, J, Comiskey, J, Zemagho, L, Ojo, L, Begne, S, Taedoumg, H, Sunderland, T, Hubau, W, Droissart, V, Qie, L, Gilpin, M, Simo-Droissart, M, Feldpausch, T, Peh, KSH, Banin, LF, Kamdem, MND & Kettridge, N 2025, 'Human and Environmental Factors Shape Tree Species Assemblages in West African Tropical Forests', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 31, no. 8, e70075. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70075

Sabokrouhiyeh, N, van der Velde, Y, Connolly, J & Kettridge, N 2025, 'Peatland resilience and presence under national climate gradients: Implications for peatland restoration strategies', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 966, 178673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178673

Little, K, Castellanos-Acuna, D, Jain, P, Graham, L, Kettridge, N & Flannigan, M 2025, 'Persistent positive anomalies in geopotential heights drive enhanced wildfire activity across Europe', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 380, no. 1924, 20230455. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0455

Chen, L, Kettridge, N & Graham, L 2025, 'Predicting fire susceptibility: Integrating environmental factors with knowledge graph and neural network', International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 144, 104898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104898

Little, K, Vitali, R, Belcher, CM, Kettridge, N, Pellegrini, AFA, Ford, AES, Smith, AMS, Elliott, A, Voulgarakis, A, Stoof, CR, Kolden, CA, Schwilk, DW, Kennedy, EB, Newman Thacker, FE, Millin-Chalabi, GR, Clay, GD, Morison, JI, McCarty, JL, Ivison, K, Tansey, K, Simpson, KJ, Jones, MW, Mack, MC, Fulé, PZ, Gazzard, R, Harrison, SP, New, S, Page, SE, Hall, TE, Brown, T, Jolly, WM & Doerr, S 2025, 'Priority research directions for wildfire science: views from a historically fire-prone and an emerging fire-prone country', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, vol. 380, no. 1924, 20240001. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0001

Ivison, K, Little, K, Orpin, A, Belcher, CM, Clay, GD, Doerr, SH, Smith, TEL, Andersen, R, Graham, LJ & Kettridge, N 2025, 'Unprecedented UK heatwave harmonised drivers of fuel moisture creating extreme temperate wildfire risk', Communications Earth and Environment, vol. 6, no. 1, 727. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02746-8

Ivison, K, Little, K, Orpin, A, Lewis, CHM, Dyer, N, Keyzor, L, Everett, L, Stoll, E, Andersen, R, Graham, LJ & Kettridge, N 2024, 'A national-scale sampled temperate fuel moisture database', Scientific Data, vol. 11, 973. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03832-w

Little, K, Kettridge, N, Belcher, CM, Graham, LJ, Stoof, CR, Ivison, K & Cardil, A 2024, 'Cross-landscape fuel moisture differences impact simulated fire behaviour', International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 33, no. 9, WF24019 . https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24019

Lewis, CHM, Little, K, Graham, LJ, Kettridge, N & Ivison, K 2024, 'Diurnal fuel moisture content variations of live and dead Calluna vegetation in a temperate peatland', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 4815. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55322-z

Leader, S, Kettridge, N, Hannah, D, Mendoza, C & Devito, KJ 2024, 'Diverse response of shallow lake water levels to decadal weather patterns in a heterogeneous glacial Boreal Plains landscape', Hydrological Processes, vol. 38, no. 4, e15125. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15125

Marcotte, AL, Limpens, J, Nunes, JP, Howard, BC, Hurley, AG, Khamis, K, Krause, S, Croghan, D, Kourmouli, A, Leader, S, Singh, T, Stoof, CR, Ullah, S & Kettridge, N 2024, 'Enhanced Hydrologic Connectivity and Solute Dynamics Following Wildfire and Drought in a Contaminated Temperate Peatland Catchment', Water Resources Research, vol. 60, no. 7, e2023WR036412. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023wr036412

Rabbai, A, Barba, J, Canducci, M, Hart, KM, MacKenzie, AR, Kettridge, N, Curioni, G, Ullah, S & Krause, S 2024, 'Fertilization-induced greenhouse gas emissions partially offset carbon sequestration during afforestation', Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 199, 109577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109577

Little, K, Graham, LJ, Flannigan, M, Belcher, CM & Kettridge, N 2024, 'Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes', Fire Ecology, vol. 20, no. 1, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00248-0

Leader, S, Kettridge, N, Hannah, DM, Mendoza, C & Devito, KJ 2024, 'Multi-year climate memory in shallow lake water levels', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 642, 131764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131764

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