Dr Nicholas Howden

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Biography

I am a catchment hydrologist and hydrogeologist.  My research aims to provide a better understanding of how climate, land-use and land management affect the quantity and quality of surface and groundwater over the short- and long-term.  I am particularly interested in the diffuse transport of nitrate from agricultural watersheds.

I studied Engineering at Durham University before completing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.  Then I spent three years working in industry, latterly as Principal Consultant for White Young Green, before moving to Cranfield University as a Lecturer in Soil and Water Engineering ...

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Recent publications

• Granger, SJ, Harris, P, Peukert, S, Guo, R, Tamburini, F, Blackwell, MSA, Howden, NJK & McGrath, S, 2017, ‘Phosphate stable oxygen isotope variability within a temperate agricultural soil’. Geoderma, vol 285., pp. 64-75
• Noacco, V, Wagener, T, Worrall, F, Burt, TP & Howden, NJ, 2017, ‘Human impact on long-term organic carbon export to rivers’. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol 122., pp. 947-965

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