Background

James joined CLUWRR to work on modelling projects concerning water resource availability in arid and semi-arid environments. In particular, his research has looked at the effect of land use and management on water resources. Test cases have been investigated in India and South Africa. He has also worked on similar test cases in humid and temperate environments (Panama, Costa Rica, Spain). James maintains the hydrological model HYLUC model and is part of the development team for HYLUC and the output viewer tool EXCLAIM.  He currently works as a volunteer in CLUWRR with the project ForestClim, which is investigating possible forestry management options in light of predicted climate change.

Roles and responsibilities 

He is responsible for the Newcastle element of the modelling for ForestClim.

He provides support for other ForestClim partners who wish to use the HYLUC model.

Qualifications

BSc 1st class in "Natural Resources" 1996 from Newcastle University
PhD in "Development, application and evaluation of models of pesticide fate in greenhouses and fields" 2001 from Newcastle University
Chartered Scientist in 2004

Memberships

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
British Society of Soil Scientists (BSSS)
Institute of Professional Soil Scientists (IPSS)

Industrial experience

In 2001 he founded and now runs an independent company, Enviresearch, which offers advice and support to the chemical industry in the registration of chemicals.

Teaching

none

Research

Research interests: sustainable water management, forest hydrology, agricultural and forest meteorology, chemical fate in the environment, management of environmental risk of pesticides.

Postgraduate supervision: occasional supervision of MSc projects in my research interests

Esteem indicators: Chartered Scientist

Funding: none 

Research Interests

Hydrology, hydrological modelling, water resources, land use change, land management

Other Expertise

Pesticide fate, modelling pesticide transport in the environment, environmental risk assessment of chemicals

Current Work

Maintaining the HYLUC model
Helping to develop the HYLUC model
Using HYLUC to investigate the effect of land use change on water resources
Helping to develop the EXCLAIM output viewer tool

Research Roles

Conducting modelling studies, writing reports, writing papers

Postgraduate Supervision

Occasional supervision of postgraduate students

Postgraduate Teaching

Occasional seminars / lectures

• Garratt J, Wilkins RM. A fugacity modelling approach to understand pesticide delivery and fate in greenhouses. In: International Advances in Pesticide Application. 2004, Royal Holloway, University of London: Association of Applied Biologists.
• Calder IR, Batchelor C, Quibell G, Gosain A, Jewitt GPW, Bosch J, Large ARG, Amezaga JM, Hope RA, James PM, Simpson E, Garratt J, Bailey RA, Kirby C. Global Governance of Water and the Blue Revolution - Can we achieve better outcomes from land and water policies?. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium: Global Governance of Water: Water and Human Security. 2004, UN House, Tokyo, Japan.
• Jewitt GPW, Garratt J, Calder IR, Fuller L. Water resources planning and modelling tools for the assessment of land use change in the Luvuvhu Catchment, South Africa. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 2004, 29(15-18), 1233-1241.
• Garratt J, Capri E, Trevisan M, Errera G, Wilkins RM. Parameterisation, evaluation and comparison of pesticide leaching models to data from a Bologna field site, Italy. Pest Management Science 2003, 59(1), 3-20.
• González-Pradas E, Ureña-Amate MD, Flores-Céspedes F, Fernández-Pérez M, Garratt JA, Wilkins RM. Leaching of imidacloprid and procymidone in a greenhouse of southeast of Spain. Soil Science Society of America Journal 2002, 66(6), 1821-1828.
• Wilkins RM, Garratt J, Laister AJ. PRICE: a decision support tool for the control of weeds in tropical irrigated rice. International Rice Research Notes 2001, 26(2), 15-16.
• González-Pradas E, Flores-Céspedes F, Ureña-Amate MD, Fernández-Pérez M, Garratt J, Wilkins RM. Leaching and persistence of imidacloprid and diuron in a citrus crop in Valencia. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 2000, 9(9-10), 638-645.