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Current PhD students:

Name Date started Topic Funding
Josselin Rouillard Oct 2008 Land use and sustainable flood risk management (with Dundee University and UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science) SAGES/University of Dundee
James Harley Sep 2008 The role of aquatic systems in carbon and nitrogen transformations in the Tay catchment (with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Scottish Agricultural College Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Jennifer Ryan (MScR) Sep 2008 Influence of broadleaf woodland on aluminium speciation in acid-sensitive streams (with the University of Leeds) GeoSciences/Self
Caolan Harrington Dec 2007 Treating pig farm slurry in wetlands (with the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh) Irish Government/Walsh Fellowship
Stephen Carr Sep 2007 Using iron ochre to treat phosphorus-polluted waters (with The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute) NERC Open CASE with the Macaulay Institute
Helen Murray Oct 2007 Nutrient and carbon releaes from soil to water at the Whitelee windfarm (with the University of Glasgow and Forest Research) SAGES/University of Glasgow
Emanuel Blei Sep 2006 Methyl halide fluxes from forest and salt marsh ecosystems (with the School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh) Chemistry/GeoSciences
Catherine Hardacre Sep 2006 Methyl halide fluxes from wetlands (with the School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh) EaStChem
Willena (Lena) McAuley Sep 2006 Diffuse nitrate pollution: mitigation and reducing pollution swapping NERC
Atif Mustafa Sep 2006 Integrated constructed wetlands for farm runoff treatment (with the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh) Pakistan Government Scholarship
Wimolpat (Nan) Bumbudsanpharoke May 2006 BMPs and agri-environment policy in Thai citrus farms (with Scottish Agricultural College) Thai Government
Alan Jones Dec 2004 Processes controlling sedimentation and sediment quality in SUDS (with Scottish Water, Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde) NERC CASE (with Scottish Water)
Fiona Napier Dec 2004 Treatment of traffic-related water pollution by SUDS (with University of Abertay Dundee) Carnegie/SEPA/SNIFFER

Completed PhD students:

Name Year completed Topic Funding
Alasdair Hardie 2002 The effect of soil hydrology, pedology and land use on manganese mobilisation in upland catchments Scottish Water/University of Edinburgh
Catherine Dickey 2004 The behaviour of trichloroacetic acid in soil and its uptake by Sitka spruce trees (with the School of Chemistry, the University of Edinburgh and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) NERC
Maggie Keegan 2006 Variability in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel in wetlands for habitat enhancement and water treatment (with RSPB) NERC CASE (with RSPB)
Julia Drewer 2007 Methyl bromide fluxes from terrestrial ecosystems (with the School of Chemistry, The University of Edinburgh) Chemistry/GeoSciences
Zisis Gagkas 2007 Effects of broadleaf woodland cover on streamwater chemistry and risk assessments of streamwater acidification in acid-sensitive catchments in the UK (with Forest Research) Greek Government Scholarship/Forest Research
Lindsey Defew 2008 The impact of high-flow events on phosphorus delivery to lakes (with Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and SEPA) NERC CASE (with SEPA)
Catherine Morgan 2008 Modelling the whole life performance of sustainable urban drainage systems in Scotland (with Heriot-Watt University and University of Strathclyde) Scottish Water/Heriot-Watt
Sara Kazemi-Yazdi 2008 Underground stormwater detention systems for water quality remediation (with the School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh) Atlantis Water/Engineering/GeoSciences/Self
Sally Goring (MScR with distinction) 2008 Understanding the Causes of Undesirable Manganese Concentrations in Scottish Groundwater (with British Geological Survey) British Geological Survey/GeoSciences
Erin Letovsky (MScR with distinction) 2008 Removal of metals from mine waters by periphyton (with Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) Edinburgh University/Self
Sunitha Rao Pangala (MScR with distinction) 2008 Mitigating methane emissions from wetlands Self
Manuel Lago Oresti 2009 Implementation of the WFD in Scotland: analysis of the economic elements (with Scottish Agricultural College) Scottish Agricultural College/Scottish Government
Fabrice Gouriveau 2009 Constructed Farm Wetlands for remediation of farmyard runoff: an evaluation of their water treatment efficiency, ecological value and cost-effectiveness (with The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute) David Kinloch Michie Trust/Torrance Bequest
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