Dr Katherine Royse
Team Leader Derived Products (geospatial hazards and risks); Project Manager: Cities Underground
Location: Keyworth
Tel: 0115 936 3456
E-mail Dr Katherine Royse
Biography
- 2010 –2014 : NERC KE Fellow: Probability Uncertainty and Risk in the Environment
- 2008 –current : Team Leader Derived Products
- 2006 –2008 : Team Leader Urban Development
- 2004 –current : Project Manager London and the Thames Gateway
- 2001 –2004 : Programme Manager UKODP/IODP
- 1997 : PhD Keele University
Current projects and collaboration
- 3D attributed geological modelling of the Lower Lea Valley and Olympic Park site
- 3D modelling and associated research on the structure of the Chalk under London, funded by the Environment Agency Thames Region
- Member of NERC PURE programme
- Member of the London Basin Forum
- Modelling of anthropocene deposits in London and the SE
- Part of ISSUES (Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services)
- Research into the origin (climatic and sedimentological) of drift hollows in the Thames Terraces in order to better predict their physical properties and distribution
Skills
- 3/4 D geological modelling
- Applied geology particularly urban geoscience
- Field geologist
- Project management of interdisciplinary projects
- Risk and uncertainty analysis
Professional association
- 2009 : Geological Society Chartered Scrutineer
- 2009 : Visiting Lecturer Brighton University
- 2004 : Science and Engineering Ambassador
- 2002 : European Geologist (EurGeol)
- 2001 : Chartered Geologist
- 2001 –2007 : Committee member of the East Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society of London
Research interests
- 3D/4D geological modelling and attribution
- Earth system science
- Ecosystem services
- Risk and vulnerability
- Urban geoscience
Key papers
Marchant, A.P., Banks, V.J., Royse, K.R., Quigley, S.P. & Wealthall, G.P., 2011. An Initial Screening Tool for water resource contamination due to development in the Olympic Park 2012 site, London Environmental Earth Sciences, 64, 483-495.
Price, S.J., Banks, V.J., Burke, H., Royse, K.R., Terrington, R. & Thorpe, S., 2010. Interpretation, description and representation of anthropogenic deposits. in Restoration and recovery : regenerating land and communities, pp. 158 -168, eds. Moore, H. & Fox, H. Whittles Publishing.
Royse, K. & Entwisle, D., 2010. Reply to discussion by J N Hutchinson on the paper ‘Property attribution of 3D geological models in the Thames Gateway, London: new ways of visualizing geoscientific information Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 69, 157–158.
Royse, K.R., 2010 Combining numerical and cognitive 3D modelling approaches in order to determine the structure of the Chalk in the London Basin, Computers and Geosciences 36, 500-511.
Royse, K.R., 2011. The Handling of Hazard Data on a National Scale: A Case Study from the British Geological Survey, Surveys in Geophysics, 32, 753-776.
Royse, K.R., Banks, V.J., Marchant, A.P. & Quigley, S.P., 2010. Development of a ranking tool to prioritise potential hazards to groundwater in urban environments. in Restoration and recovery : regenerating land and communities, pp. 150-158, eds. Moore, H. & Fox, H. Whittles Publishing.
Royse, K.R., De Freitas, M., Burgess, W., Cosgrove, J., Ghail, R., Gibbard, P., King, C., Lawrence, U., Mortimore, R., Owen, H. & Skipper, J. 2011. Geology of London, UK. Proceedings of the Geologist Association, doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.07.005
Royse, K.R., Kessler, H., Robins, N.S., Hughes, A.G. & Mathers, S., 2010. The use of 3D geological models in the development of the conceptual groundwater model, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 161, 237-249.
Royse, K.R., Rutter, H.K. & Entwisle, D.C., 2009. Property attribution of 3D geological models in the Thames Gateway: New ways of visualising geoscientific information, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 68, 1-16
