Dr Sim M. Reaney

Dr Sim M. Reaney

Associate Professor in Catchment Hydrology

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Work experience

Co-Director of the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR)

2020 - to date Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience, Durham University, United Kingdom

Associate Professor in Catchment Hydrology

2020 - to date Department of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom In this role, I am focusing on the combination of diffuse pollution and flood hazards in a wide range of environments. This work will continue to develop the catchment modelling and SCIMAP toolkit to be applicable to a wider range of issues and environments. I am teaching on both the BSc Geography and MSc Risk within the Geography department in Durham. I teach on catchment and flood simulation modelling and on hydrological processes.

Assistant Professor in Catchment Hydrology

2012 - 2020 Within this role I worked on catchment hydrological processes including climate change, flood hazards and diffuse pollution. This work was largely focused on the UK and much work was structured around the Defra Eden DRC project, for which I was I Co-Investigator. This project looked at how to manage the landscape differently to reduce diffuse pollution whilst minimising impacts on farm business. I worked on the development of the SCIMAP diffuse pollution risk mapping toolkit. I also started to test the approaches developed in the UK on flood source mapping and simulation modelling to new sites including Nepal and Java, Indonesia.

RCUK Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

2007 - 2012 Department of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom

I held an RCUK postdoctoral research fellowship in the Institute of Hazard and Risk and Resilience and the Department of Geography at Durham University. The main theme of my research was hazards and risks related to water and I focused on the hazard that has the greatest capability to cause widespread impacts – climate change. These potential impacts were approached through better understanding of catchment hydrological processes and the use of simulation modelling techniques to determine how the system may change under projected futures. I investigated how projected climate change may alter the hydrological functioning of catchments and how these changes may affect flooding, drought and diffuse pollution delivery to water courses.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

2005-2007 Department of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom.

I worked on a NERC funded project to develop the SCIMAP diffuse pollution risk mapping toolset. This work involved terrain analysis development within open source GIS systems and the engagement with stakeholders, both within the catchments and Defra.

Environmental Scientist and Visiting Researcher at the University of Leeds

2002 - 2005 Cascade Consulting, Manchester, UK.

I worked on a UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) funded project on the potential impact of projected climate change on water quality for UK Rivers. This work involved the development of water quality models for nitrogen (NH4 and NO3) and dissolved oxygen.

Research Assistant, King’s College London, UK.

1998-1999

I worked on an EU funded research project, MODULUS, to develop a hydrological simulation model for semi-arid environments. This model was applied to southern Spain and Greece.

Education

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Research Grants

  1. 2022-22 CoI, NERC,Synthesising evidence in economics of biodiversity
  2. 2018-22 CoI, NERC, Java Flood One. £464k
  3. 2018-19, CoI, Royal Academy of Medicine, GCRF Networking Grant for Managed Aquifer Recharge with Check Dams in Botswana. £25k
  4. 2018-19 CoI, Defra, Demonstration Test Catchments for the River Eden, Phase three. £166k total. PI Prof. Phil Haygarth at Lancaster.
  5. 2018 PI Durham HEFCE GCRF, Flood hazards in Java, Indonesia. £60k
  6. 2017 – 2018: PI Durham IHRR, Nepal flood impacts assessment following the 2017 monsoon. £10k
  7. 2017 – 2018 CoI NERC, Visualising Pathogen & Environmental Risk: transition to a user-ready toolkit (ViPER II) £101k. PI Dr David Oliver, CoIs Professor AL Heathwaite, Dr PJ Bartie, Dr RS Quilliam
  8. 2014 – 2018. CoI, Defra, Demonstration Test Catchments for the River Eden, phase two. £350k in total, £90k to DU. PI Prof. Phil Haygarth, CoIs Dr. Paul Quinn, Prof. Philip Barker
  9. 2015 – 2015 CoI, NERC, Pathogen Risks in Agricultural Catchments: Towards International Collaboration and Learning in Modelling (PRACTICAL Modelling) NE/M005860/1 £37k. PI Dr David Oliver, CoI Dr RS Quilliam
  10. 2014 – 2015 PI, Eden Rivers Trust, Roe Beck: Simulation modelling of natural flood risk management £8k
  11. 2014 - 2015: PI, Development of Effective Approaches to Flood Risk Reduction using Natural Techniques on Tutta Beck, County Durham (£10000 from Tees Rivers Trust) CoI Dr Richard Hardy
  12. 2014 – 2014: PI: SCIMAP Web Application Updates; £10k from the Environment Agency / Defra.
  13. 2011 – 2015 CoI, ESRC, Spatially Targeted and Coordinated Regulation of Agricultural Externalities: An Economic Perspective £285k PI Dr. Ashar Aftab, CoIs Prof. Stuart Lane, Prof Nick Hanley
  14. 2009 – 2014 CoI, Defra, Demonstration Test Catchments for the River Eden. £2m, PI Prof. Phil Haygarth, CoIs Dr. Paul Quinn, Prof. Philip Barker, Prof. Stuart Lane, Prof. John Quinton
  15. 2010 – 2013 CoI, NERC Virtual Observatory. NE/I002200/1 £1.2m PI Emmett, B.A., CoIs: Gurney, R.J., McDonald, A.T., Blair, G., Buytaert, W., Freer, J., Haygarth, P., Johnes, P.J., Rees, G.H., Tetzlaff, D., Beven, K., Bloomfield, J. B., Macklin, M.V., Macleod, K., Quinn, P.F., Reaney, S., Stutter, M.
  16. 2009 – 2012 CoI, EPSRC Built Infrastructure for Older People’s Care in Conditions of Climate Change
  17. 2009 - 2012 CoI, NERC, Catchment change network (CCN): A professional development platform for decision-making for adaptation and uncertain environmental change £357k

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