Dr Christopher Jackson

Dr Christopher Jackson Groundwater Modeller

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3196

E-mail Dr Christopher Jackson

Biography

  •  2005 –2012 :  External Lecturer, MSc Environmental Hydrogeology, Cardiff University
  •  2005 –Present :  Groundwater modeller/hydrogeologist, British Geological Survey
  •  2000 :  PhD University of Birmingham, Groundwater Modelling
  •  1997 – 2001 :  Research Associate, School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham
  •  1996 :  MSc(Eng) University of Birmingham, Water Resources Technology & Management
  •  1993 :  BSc University of East Anglia, Geophysical Science

Current projects and collaboration

  •  Hydrometeorological feedbacks and changes in water storage and fluxes in northern India. Principal Investigator, NERC Changing Water Cycle funded project.
  •  Integrated surface water-groundwater modelling of the Oxford floodplain
  •  Future Flows and Groundwater Levels: a collaboration with the Environment Agency, DEFRA, UKWIR, CEH and Wallingford Hydrosolutions to assess changes in UK water resources using the UKCP09 climate projections
  •  Hydrological extremes and feedbacks in the changing water cycle: NERC funded research project in collaboration with Imperial College, UCL and Reading University
  •  Current PhD student: Kirsty Upton (Imperial College) Continuous simulation methodology to evaluate long-term risk to surface and groundwater resources in the Chalk

Research interests

  •  ZOOMQ3D groundwater model development
  •  OpenMI and FluidEarth technology for integrated hydrological modelling
  •  Groundwater flooding
  •  Groundwater, climate change and extreme events
  •  Impacts of climate change on groundwater deployable output
  •  Numerical methods for groundwater flow simulation
  •  Pumping test analysis and flow to boreholes

Professional association

Published outputs

Key papers

Prudhomme C, Haxton T, Crooks S, Jackson C R, Barkwith A, Williamson J, Kelvin J, Mackay J, Wang L, Young A and Watts G. 2013. Future Flows Hydrology: an ensemble of daily river flow and monthly groundwater levels for use for climate change impact assessment across Great Britain. Earth Syts. Sci. Data, www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/5/101/2013/ doi:10.5194/essd-5-101-2013.

Sorensen J, Finch J, Ireson A and Jackson C R. 2013. Comparison of varied complexity models simulating recharge at the field scale. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.9752.

Jackson C R. 2012. Simple automatic time-stepping for improved simulation of groundwater hydrographs. Ground Water, 50 (5), 736-745.

Butler A P, Hughes A G, Jackson C R, Ireson A M, Parker S J, Wheater H S, and Peach D W. 2012. Advances in modelling groundwater behaviour in Chalk catchments. Geological Society Special Publication 364, 113-127.

Hulme P J, Jackson C R, Atkins J K, Hughes A G, Mansour M M, Seymour K J, and Wilson K J. 2012. A rapid model for estimating the depletion in river flows due to groundwater abstraction. Geological Society Special Publication 364, 289-302.

Jones M A, Hughes A G, Jackson C R, and Van Wonderen J J. 2012. Groundwater resource modelling for public water supply management in London. Geological Society Special Publication 364, 99-111.

Jackson C R, Meister R and Prudhomme C. 2011. Modelling the effects of climate change and its uncertainty on UK Chalk groundwater resources from an ensemble of global climate model projections. Journal of Hydrology, 399, 12–28.

Guardiola-Albert, C and Jackson C R. 2011. Potential impacts of climate change on groundwater supplies to the Doñana wetland, Spain. Wetlands, 31 (5), 907-920.

Hughes A G, Vounaki T, Peach D W, Ireson A M, Jackson C R, Butler A P, Bloomfield J P, Finch J and Wheater H S. 2011. Flood risk from groundwater: examples from a Chalk catchment in southern England. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 4 (3), 143-155.

Upton K A and Jackson C R. 2011. Simulation of the spatio-temporal extent of groundwater flooding using statistical methods of hydrograph classification and lumped parameter models. Hydrological Processes, 25 (12), 1949–1963

Adams B A, Bloomfield J P, Gallagher A, Jackson C R, 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.

Butcher A, Lawrence A, Jackson C R, Cullis E, Cunningham J, Hasan, K and Ingram J A. 2006. Investigating rising nitrate concentrations in groundwater in the Permo-Triassic sandstone aquifer in the UK. In: Fluid flow and solute movement in sandstones: The onshore UK Permo-Triassic red bed sequence (Edited by Barker R D and Tellam J H). Geological Society Special Publication 263, Geological Society, London, UK. 285-296.

Stuart M E, Gooddy D C, Hughes A G, and Jackson C R. 2006. A field and modelling study to determine pesticide occurrence in a public water supply in northern England, UK. Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 26 (4), 128–136.

Jackson C R, Hughes A G, O'Dochartaigh B E, Robins N S and Peach D W. 2005. Numerical testing of conceptual models of groundwater flow: a case study using the Dumfries Basin aquifer. Scottish Journal of Geology, 2005, 41(1), 51–60.