Professor Nick Kettridge BSc PhD

Nick Kettridge

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Ecohydrology
Deputy Head of School (Geography, Earth and Environmental Science)

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

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.

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

Tilak, AS, Hoyne, S & Kettridge, N 2022, 'Near-surface controls on peatland hydrology: implications for rapid adaptation and enhanced resilience to disturbances', Ecohydrology. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2445

Comer-Warner, SA, Nguyen, ATQ, Nguyen, MN, Wang, M, Turner, A, Le, H, Sgouridis, F, Krause, S, Kettridge, N, Nguyen, N, Hamilton, RL & Ullah, S 2022, 'Restoration impacts on rates of denitrification and greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical coastal wetlands', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 803, 149577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149577

Worrall, F, Morrison, R, Evans, C, Kaduk, J, Page, SE, Cumming, A, Rayment, M & Kettridge, N 2021, 'Are peatlands in different states with respect to their thermodynamic behaviour? A simple test of peatland energy and entropy budgets', Hydrological Processes, vol. 35, no. 12, e14431. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14431

van der Velde, Y, Temme, AJAM, Nijp, JJ, Braakhekke, MC, van Voorn, GAK, Dekker, SC, Dolman, AJ, Wallinga, J, Devito, KJ, Kettridge, N, Mendoza, CA, Kooistra, L, Soons, MB & Teuling, AJ 2021, 'Emerging forest–peatland bistability and resilience of European peatland carbon stores', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 38, e2101742118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101742118

Kettridge, N, Lukenbach, MC, Hokanson, KJ, Devito, KJ, Petrone, RM, Mendoza, CA & Waddington, JM 2021, 'Regulation of peatland evaporation following wildfire; the complex control of soil tension under dynamic evaporation demand', Hydrological Processes, vol. 35, no. 4, e14132. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14132

Leonard, R, Moore, P, Krause, S, Devito, KJ, Petrone, GR, Mendoza, C, Waddington, JM & Kettridge, N 2021, 'The influence of system heterogeneity on peat-surface temperature dynamics', Environmental Research Letters, vol. 16, no. 2, 024002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abd4ff

Comer-Warner, SA, Gooddy, DC, Ullah, S, Glover, L, Kettridge, N, Wexler, SK, Kaiser, J & Krause, S 2020, 'Seasonal variability of sediment controls of nitrogen cycling in an agricultural stream', Biogeochemistry, vol. 148, no. 1, pp. 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00644-z

Comer-Warner, SA, Romeijn, P, Gooddy, DC, Ullah, S, Kettridge, N, Marchant, B, Hannah, DM & 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

Moore, PA, Lukenbach, MC, Thompson, DK, Kettridge, N, Granath, G & Waddington, JM 2019, 'Assessing the peatland hummock-hollow classification framework using high-resolution elevation models: Implications for appropriate complexity ecosystem modeling', Biogeosciences, vol. 16, no. 18, pp. 3491-3506. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3491-2019

Depante, M, Morison, MQ, Petrone, RM, Devito, KJ, Kettridge, N & Waddington, JM 2019, 'Hydraulic redistribution and hydrological controls on aspen transpiration and establishment in peatlands following wildfire', Hydrological Processes, vol. 33, no. 21, pp. 2714-2728. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13522

Dara, R, Kettridge, N, Rivett, MO, Krause, S & Gomez-Ortiz, D 2019, 'Identification of floodplain and riverbed sediment heterogeneity in a meandering UK lowland stream by ground penetrating radar', Journal of Applied Geophysics, vol. 171, 103863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2019.103863

Little-Devito, M, Mendoza, C, Chasmer, L, Kettridge, N & Devito, K 2019, 'Opportunistic wetland formation on reconstructed landforms in a sub-humid climate: influence of site and landscape-scale factors', Wetlands Ecology and Management, vol. 27, no. 5-6, pp. 587-608. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-019-09679-y

Commissioned report

Belcher, C, Brown, I, Clay, G, Doerr, S, Elliott, A, Gazzard, R, Kettridge, N, Morison, J, Perry, M, Santin, C & Smith, T 2021, UK wildfires and their climate challenges: expert led report prepared for the third Climate Change Risk Assessment. <https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/UK-Wildfires-and-their-Climate-Challenges.pdf>

Other contribution

Stoof, C, Tijhuis, AJG, Rein, G, Prat-Guitart, N, Arenas Conejo, M, Rodriguez-Giralt, I & Kettridge, N 2020, PyroLife PhD recruitment rubric and best practices.. <https://edepot.wur.nl/526474>

Review article

Comer-Warner, S, Knapp, JLA, Blaen, P, Klaar, M, Shelley, F, Zarnetske, J, Lee-Cullin, J, Folegot, S, Kurz, M, Lewandowski, J, Harvey, J, Ward, A, Mendoza-Lera, C, Ullah, S, Datry, T, Kettridge, N, Gooddy, D, Drummond, J, Martí, E, Milner, A, Hannah, D & Krause, S 2020, 'The method controls the story - Sampling method impacts on the detection of pore-water nitrogen concentrations in streambeds', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 709, 136075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136075

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