“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Contact:
j.s.rowan@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384024
Fax:+44 (0)1382 388588
Postal Address:
Geography
School of the Environment
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Most current research is linked to the theme of catchment-scale sediment delivery processes, though a recent and important development has been in working in the area of hydromorphology related to the implementation requirements of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Specific projects generally fall within the following key areas: Sediment provenance studies using quantitative multivariate mixing models; application of environmental radionuclides i.e. 137Cs and 210Pb to erosion/sedimentation studies; geomorphology of sediment sinks (floodplains, alluvial fans, lakes and reservoirs); environmental reconstruction, resource management and environmental impact assessment and the hydromorphology of rivers and lakes.
| Year | Amount/Description |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Development of a technique for Lake Habitat Survey (LHS): Phase II. Funded by the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (SNIFFER). With O.M. Bragg, R.W. Duck, M.E.J. Cutler and A.R. Black. Development of decision-making frameworks for managing alterations to the morphology of lakes. Funded by SNIFFER. |
| 2004 | Development of environmental standards (water resources) for rivers and lakes. Funded by SNIFFER. Joint award between CEH Wallingford and Dundee. With A.R. Black and O.M. Bragg. |
| 2004 | Overseas Visitors Scholarship to visit National University of Singapore, travel and subsistence costs. Funded by National University of Singapore. |
| 2004 | Development of a technique for Lake Habitat Survey (LHS): Phase 1. Funded by SNIFFER. With R.W. Duck, M.E.J. Cutler O.M. Bragg, and A.R. Black. |
| 2003 | Academic Research Visitor Award, University of Newcastle Research, NSW. Uncertainty-inclusive sediment fingerprinting models and a pilot study seeking to integrate hydrological and geomorphological approaches to flood risk estimation. Pilot study investigation into the use of floodplain sediment archives to characterise multi-decadal variability in flood risk, Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. Funded by the Royal Society of London. |
| 2003 | Integrating hydrological and geomorphological approaches to the assessment of multi-decadal flood risk estimation. Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. |
| 2003 | Development of a technique for Lake Habitat Survey (LHS): scoping study. Funded by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). With O.M. Bragg, R.W. Duck and A.R. Black. |
| 2002 | Hydromorphology of lake systems in the UK. Funded by SNIFFER. With R.W. Duck, O.M. Bragg and A.R. Black. |
| 2002 | The use of mathematical models in the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Funded by the Irish Environment Protection Agency. With A.R. Black, Bragg, O.M. and R.W. Duck. |
| 2001 | Case study project on Heavily Modified Waters in Scotland. Funded by SNIFFER. With A.R. Black and O.M. Bragg. |
| 2000 | The Holocene flood record of the Three Gorges, China. Royal Geographical Society Ralph Brown Expedition Grant. With D.L. Higgitt (Durham). |
| Year | Degree/University |
|---|---|
| 1987-90 | PhD University of Exeter, Devon, EX4 4RJ, UK |
| 1986-87 | MA Geography, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 45056, USA. |
| 1981-85 | BSc (Hons.) Geography, Glasgow University, G12 8QQ, UK. |
| Year | Title/University |
|---|---|
| 2006 - | Reader in Physical Geography, School of the Environment - Geography, University of Dundee |
| 2001-06 | Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography, Geography, University of Dundee |
| 1998-01 | Lecturer in Physical Geography, Geography, University of Dundee |
| 1990-98 | Lecturer in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, IENS, Lancaster University, LA1 4YQ, UK |
Rowan, J.S., Carwardine, J., Duck, R.W., Bragg, O.M., Black, A.R., Cutler, M.E.J., Soutar, I. and Boon, P.J. (2006) Development of a technique for Lake Habitat Survey (LHS) with applications for the European Union Water Framework Directive. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems, 16, 637-657.
Black, A.R., Rowan, J.S., Duck, R.W., Bragg, O.M. and Clelland, B.E. 2005. DHRAM: a method for classifying river flow regime alterations for the EU Water Framework Directive. Aquatic Conservation - Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 15, 427-466.
Bragg, O.M., Black, A.R., Duck, R.W. and Rowan, J.S. 2005. Appraising the linkages between hydrological regime alteration and ecology in freshwater systems: an international review. Progress in Physical Geography, 29, 506-531.
Gunawardena, M. and Rowan, J.S. 2005. Economic valuation of a mangrove ecosystem threatened by shrimp aquaculture in Sri Lanka. Environmental Management, 34, 5, 1-16.
Jenkins, P.A., Duck, R.W. and Rowan, J.S. 2005. Fluvial contribution to the sediment budget of the Tay Estuary, Scotland, revealed using mineral magnetic fingerprinting. In: Walling, D.E. and Horowitz, AJ. (eds). Sediment Budgets I, IAHS Publ. 291, pp. 134-142.
Small, I.F., Rowan, J.S., Duck, R.W., Dyer, T.D., Franks, S.W. Wyatt, A. 2005. Can reservoir bottom sediments be used in the estimation of long-term catchment sediment budgets? In: Horowitz, A.J. and Walling, D.E. (eds). Sediment Budgets II, IAHS Publ. 292, pp. 231-238.
Werritty, A., Paine, J.L., Macdonald, N., Rowan, J.S. and McEwen, L.J. 2005. Use of proxy flood records to improve estimates of flood risk: Lower Tay, Scotland. Catena, 66, 107-119.
Small, I.F., Rowan, J.S., Franks, S.W., Wyatt, A. and Duck, R.W. 2004. Sediment fingerprinting using a Bayesian approach yields a robust tool for environmental forensic applications. In: Croft, D.A. and Pye, K. (eds.), Environmental Forensics, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ., London, pp. 235-248.
Candy, I., Black, S. Sellwood, B.W. and Rowan, J.S. 2003. Calcrete profile development in Quaternary alluvial sequences, southeast Spain: implications for using calcretes as a basis for landform chronologies. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 28, 169-185.
Krause, A.K., Franks, S.W., Kalma, J.D., Loughran, R.J. and Rowan, J.S. 2003. Multi-parameter fingerprinting of sediment deposition in a small gullied catchment in SE Australia. Catena, 53, 4, 327-348.
Small, I.F., Rowan, J.S. and Duck, R.W. 2003. Long term sediment yield in the Crombie Reservoir catchment, Angus, and its regional significance within the Midland Valley of Scotland. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 48, 4, 619-635.
Werritty, A., Paine, J. and Rowan, J.S. 2003. Developing proxy flood records from sediment stacks in palaeochannels: the 'Bloody Inches' on the River Tay, Scotland. In: Thorndycraft, V.R. Benito, G., Barriendos, M. and Llasat, M.C. (eds.), Palaeofloods, Historical Data and Climatic Variability. CSIC, Madrid. pp. 45-52.
Black. A.R, Bragg, O.M., Duck, R.W. and Rowan, J.S. 2002. Development of a method to assess ecological impact due to hydrological regime alteration of Scottish rivers. In: Dyer, F.J., Thoms, M.C. and Olley, J.M. (eds.), The Structure Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, IAHS Publication No 276. pp. 45-52.
Jenkins, P.A. Duck, R.W., Rowan, J.S. and Walden, J. 2002. Fingerprinting of bed sediment in the Tay Estuary, Scotland: an environmental magnetism approach. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 6,1007-1016.
Macklin, M.G. Fuller, I.C., Lewin, J., Maas, G.S., Passmore, D.G., Rose, J., Woodward, J.C. Black, S., Hamlin, R.H.B. and Rowan, J.S. 2002. Correlation of fluvial sequences in the Mediterranean basin over the last 200 ka and their relationship to climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 21, 1633-1641.
Paine, J.L., Rowan, J.S. and Werritty, A. 2002. Reconstructing historic floods from floodplain sediments: Evidence from the River Tay, Scotland. In: Dyer, F.J., Thoms, M.C. and Olley, J.M. (eds.), The Structure Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, IAHS Publication No 276. pp. 211-218.
Rowan, J.S. and Franks, S.W. 2002. Floodplains and heavy metal mining: short-term impact mitigation but long-term pollution problems, the Clyde basin, Scotland. In: Dyer, F.J., Thoms, M.C. and Olley, J.M. (eds.), The Structure Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, IAHS Publication No 276. pp. 143-150.
Small, I.F., Rowan, J.S. and Franks, S.W. 2002. Quantitative sediment fingerprinting using a Bayesian uncertainty estimation framework. In: Dyer, F.J., Thoms, M.C. and Olley, J.M. (eds.), The Structure Function and Management Implications of Fluvial Sedimentary Systems, IAHS Publication No 276. pp. 443-450.
Brazier, R.E., Beven, K.J., Anthony, S.G. and Rowan, J.S. 2001. Implications of complex model uncertainty assessed with the GLUE methodology for the mapping of hillslope scale soil erosion predictions using the MIRSED approach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 26, 1333-1352.
Brazier, R., Rowan, J.S., Anthony, S. and Quin, P. 2001. MIRSED, towards a MIR (Minimum Information Requirement) approach to modelling hillslope soil erosion at the national scale. Catena, 42, 59-79.
Duck, R.W., Rowan, J.S., Jenkins, P.A. and Youngs, I. 2001. A multi-method study of bedload provenance and transport pathways in an estuarine channel. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 26, 747-752.
Molino, B., Greco. M. and Rowan, J.S. 2001. Sediment routing into reservoirs: a numerical simulation of the sedimentation history of Abbeystead Reservoir, UK. Water Resources Management, 15, 109-122.
Rowan, J.S., Duck, R.W. and Black, S. 2001. Calcareous concretions yield the first U/Th date for the Late Devensian raised marine strata of eastern Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, 37, 73-78.
Rowan, J.S., Price, L.E., Fawcett, C.P. and Young, P.C. 2001. Reconstructing sedimentation trends in reservoirs using a data-based mechanistic modelling approach. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 26, 77-82.
Brazier, R., Beven K.J., Freer, J. and Rowan, J.S. 2000. A Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) analysis of the parameter related uncertainties in the WEPP soil erosion model. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 25, 825-845.
Franks, S.W. and Rowan, J.S. 2000. Multi-parameter fingerprinting of sediment sources: uncertainty estimation and tracer selection. In: Bentley, L.R., Brebbia, C.A., Gray, W.G., Pinder, G.F. and Sykes, J.F. (eds): Computational Methods in Water Resources. Balkema, Rotterdam. pp. 1067-1074.
Kelly, M.R., Black, S. and Rowan, J.S. 2000. A U/Th chronology for landform evolution in the Sorbas basin, South East Spain. Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 995-1010.
Price, L.E, Goodwill, P., Young, P.C. and Rowan, J.S. 2000. Data based mechanistic (DBM) modelling of reservoir sediment transmission, Wyresdale Park, UK. Hydrological Processes, 14, 63-78.
Price, L.E., Fawcett, C.P., Young, P.C. and Rowan, J.S. 2000. Modelling reservoir sedimentation and estimating historical deposition rates using a data-based mechanistic (DBM) approach. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 45, 237-248.
Rowan, J.S., Black, S., Macklin, M.G., Tabner, B.J. and Dore, J. 2000. Quaternary environmental change in Cyrenaica evidenced by U-Th, ESR and OSL dating of coastal alluvial fan sequences. Libyan Studies, 31, 5-16.
Rowan, J.S., Goodwill, P. and Franks, S.W. 2000. Uncertainty estimation in fingerprinting suspended sediment sources. In: Foster, I.D.L. (ed.). Tracers in Geomorphology. Wiley, Chichester. pp. 279-290.
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