Professor 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

• Worrall, F, Howden, NJ, Burt, TP & Bartlett, R, 2019, ‘The importance of sewage effluent discharge in the export of dissolved organic carbon from U.K. rivers’. Hydrological Processes, vol 33., pp. 1851-1864
• Coxon, G, Freer, J, Lane, R, Dunne, T, Knoben, W, Howden, N, Quinn, N, Wagener, T & Woods, R, 2019, ‘DECIPHeR v1: Dynamic fluxEs and ConnectIvity for Predictions of HydRology’. Geoscientific Model Development, vol 12., pp. 2285-2306

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