Richard passes his PhD defence
Richard, from our Bangor University Team, successfully defended his PhD thesis at his Viva on the 10th of December, passing with minor corrections.
His thesis, entitled ‘Climate change and Welsh catchments: Implications for hydrological regime, water quality and water abstraction’ , explores how historical and future climate change has impacted, and will continue to impact, on river systems in Wales, and their exploitation as a water resource.
Following his final submission, Richard said, “I have learnt a lot in the past four years, not only about water resources, climate change, hydrological modelling and data analysis, but also about being a successful researcher. This is thanks to my supervisors, the wider project team, and the opportunities I have been afforded thanks to the funders, to all of whom I’m very grateful.”
Looking to the future, he continued, “I have enjoyed working towards my PhD, and am now excited to move the research in a new direction, focussing on the implications of projected climate change on the technologies and other research being studied as part of the Dŵr Uisce project.”
Richard is now continuing his research with Dŵr Uisce as a postdoctoral researcher, his current focus is a national scale assessment of the impacts of climate change induced streamflow alterations on the abstraction of water for run-off-river hydropower operations in the UK and Ireland.
Front page of Richard’s PhD Thesis
Richard would like to thank his supervisors, Dr Sopan Patil and Dr Prysor Williams, his Viva committee, Professor Dave Chadwick (Chair), Dr Graham Bird (Internal Examiner), and Professor Neil Macdonald (External Examiner), as well as the Dŵr Uisce Project funders, the European Regional Development Fund through Interreg Ireland-Wales Cooperation Programme.