Water Supply Resilience

This thrilling fully funded four-year PhD will combine field experiments, laboratory analyses and modelling work to deliver insights into the efficacy of soil management interventions to promote soil profile to aquifer connectivity and nutrient retention across a range of crop rotation and field-scale contexts and their impacts at a catchment scale.

Close collaboration with Affinity Water will allow the research outputs to support better informed investments in soil management to relieve the pressure on their water supply and treatment infrastructures.

Developing this knowledge base and quantitative evidence could also inform the development of intervention options within forthcoming Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMs) and delivery of the 25-Year Environment Plan.