Professor Nicholas Howden
MEng(Dunelm), DIC PhD(Lond.), FICE, CEng, CEnv, CWEM, FCIWEM, FGS, FRGS
Current positions
Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering
School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
SMARTWATER: Diagnosing controls of pollution hot spots and hot moments and their impact on catchment water quality
Principal Investigator
Description
Planetary boundaries of river water pollution are at risk of being breached, with dangerous consequences for human and environmental health, economic prosperity, and water security. The current paradigm for environmental…Dates
01/11/2023 to 31/10/2028
Modelling water quality response to climate and large scale land use change using the world's longest water quality time series (1868 to date) - Dr N Howden
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/02/2010 to 01/05/2011
National science foundation research collaboration network - pump priming
Principal Investigator
Description
We have been invited to form an international consortium to bid for a US National Science Foundation grant. This follows a new collaboration with academics from Purdue University (Prof…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/01/2010 to 01/01/2011
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
24/02/2025A 150-year river water quality record shows reductions in phosphorus loads but not in algal growth potential
Communications Earth & Environment
Soil drainage modulates climate effects to shape seasonal and mean annual water balances across the southeastern United States
Hydrological Processes
Evidence-based requirements for perceptualising intercatchment groundwater flow in hydrological models
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Parameterization of a National Groundwater Model for New Zealand
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic health risk assessment of heavy metals contamination in groundwater in the west of Minia area, Egypt
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
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