Dr John Bloomfield

Dr John Bloomfield Team Leader Groundwater Survey and Management

Location: Wallingford

Tel: 01491 69 2310

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Biography

  •  2008 :  Team Leader of Groundwater Survey and Management
  •  1998 –2000 :  Manager of the Aquifer Properties Laboratory, BGS Wallingford
  •  1993 :  PhD, Imperial College London, Experimental Rock Deformation
  •  1991 –Present :  Hydrogeologist, British Geological Survey
  •  1986 :  MSc, Imperial College London, Structural Geology
  •  1985 :  BSc (Hons) 1st class, Kingston Polytechnic, Geology

Research interests

  •  Groundwater ecology
  •  Groundwater flooding
  •  Aquifer physical properties characterisation
  •  Geological controls on catchment hydrology
  •  Groundwater drought
  •  Groundwater level prediction
  •  Groundwater, climate change and extreme events

Current projects and collaboration

  •  HYDRA consortium (Imperial College London, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Reading)
  •  CI on the NERC Virtual Observatories project (with partners from Aberdeen, Aberystwyth, Bristol, CEH, Durham, Imperial College, Lancaster, Leeds, Macaulay Institute, Newcastle, and Reading)
  •  Groundwater ecology (Roehampton University)
  •  Hindcasting of groundwater levels
  •  Hydrogeology of the Thames Basin
  •  Mapping groundwater flooding susceptibility
  •  Recently undertaken groundwater-related projects with and for amongst others: Defra, the Environment Agency, EPSRC, NERC, Thames Water plc, and UKWIR
  •  Systems analysis of the groundwater compartment (University of Oxford, Mathematical Institute)

Professional association

  •  Chartered Geologist
  •  Fellow of the Geological Society, London
  •  Member of the Chartership Panel of the Geological Society, London
  •  2011 :  Member of the NERC Peer Review College

Published outputs

Key papers

BLOOMFIELD J P, Bricker S H and NEWELL A J. 2011. Some relationships between lithology, basin form and hydrology: a case study from the Thames Basin, UK. Hydrological Processes, 25, 2518-2530

STUART M E, GOODY D C, WILLIAMS A T and BLOOMFIELD J P. 2011. The impact of climate change on future nitrate concentrations in groundwater: a case study from the UK. Science of the Total Environment, 409, 2859-2873.

ADAMS B A, BLOOMFILED J P, GALLAGHER A, JACKSON C J, RUTTER H and WILLIAMS A T. 2010. An Early Warning System for Groundwater Flooding in the Chalk. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 43, 185-193

LITTLE M A and BLOOMFIELD J P. 2010. Robust evidence for random fractal scaling of groundwater levels in unconfined aquifers. Journal of Hydrology, 393, 362-369

BLOOMFIELD J P, ALLEN D J AND GRIFFITHS K J. 2009. Examining geological controls on baseflow index (BFI) using regression analysis: An illustration from the Thames Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 373, 164-176.

HOLMAN I P, RIVAS-CASADO M, HOWDEN N J K, BLOOMFIELD J P AND WILLIAMS A T. 2009. Linking North Atlantic ocean-atmosphere teleconnection patterns and hydrogeological responses in temperate groundwater systems. Hydrological Processes, 23, 3123-3126.

BLOOMFIELD J P, WILLIAMS R J ,GOODDY D C, CAPE J N, AND GUHA P. 2006. Review of the impacts of climate change on the fate and behaviour of pesticides in surface and groundwater - A UK perspective. Science of the Total Environment Vol. 369, 163-177.

MAURICE L D, ATKINSON T C, BARKER J A, BLOOMFIELD J P, FARRANT A R AND WILLIAMS A T. 2006. Karstic behaviour of groundwater in the English Chalk. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 330, 63-70.

WILLIAMS A T, BLOOMFIELD J P, GRIFFITHS K J AND BUTLER A. 2006. Characterising vertical variations in hydraulic conductivity within the Chalk aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, Vol. 330, 53-62.

BLOOMFIELD J P, BARKER JA AND ROBISON N. 2005. Modelling fracture porosity development using simple growth laws. Ground Water, Vol. 43, 314-326.

BLOOMFIELD J P, GAUS I AND WADE S D. 2003. A method for investigating the potential impacts of climate change scenarios on annual minimum groundwater levels, Journal CIWEM, Vol.17, 86-91.

Please also see these papers in NORA.