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

• Gnann, S, Woods, R & Howden, N, 2019, ‘Is there a baseflow Budyko curve?’. Water Resources Research.
• Noacco, V, Duffy, C, Wagener, T, Worrall, F, Fasiolo, M & Howden, N, 2019, ‘Drivers of inter- and intra-annual variability of dissolved organic carbon concentration in the River Thames between 1884 and 2013: Century-long rise in fluvial DOC variability’. Hydrological Processes.

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