Prof Jonathan Chambers

Jonathan Chambers’s Biography

• 2021 – ongoing: Head of Shallow Geohazards & Earth Observation, BGS
• 2018 – ongoing: Individual Merit Promotion (IMP3) Scientist
• 2017 – ongoing: Honorary Professor of Geophysics, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
• 2015 – 2019: NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow for Infrastructure
• 2015 – 2016: Co-Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Applied Geophysics
• 2012 – 2021: Geophysical Tomography Team Leader, BGS
• 2000 – ongoing: Research Geophysicist, BGS
• 1997 – 2001: PhD Environmental & Engineering Geophysics, University of Sheffield
• 1996 – 1997: MSc Industrial Rocks and Mineral (Distinction), University of Leicester
• 1993 – 1996: BSc (Hons) Geology (1^st Class), University of Bristol

Research interests

• Development and application of electrical geophysical methods
• Hydrogeophysics: vadose and hyporheic zone studies, and contaminant transport monitoring
• Mining and waste: mineral exploration, waste characterisation and monitoring
• Soil-vegetation interactions: agriculture, sustainable urban drainage and slope stability
• Engineering geophysics: geothermal energy, geohazards and geotechnical asset monitoring

Selected projects

• 2021 – ongoing: PhD Supervision. Currently supervising students with University College Dublin, Nottingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Lancaster and Liege Universities
• 2020 – 2023: Principal-Investigator. Proactive Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation (PRIME) System for Railway Earthwork Assets. Network Rail R&D ecm_19105
• 2020 – 2023: Co-Investigator. Sensors UNder snow Seasonal Processes in the Evolution of ARctic Soils (SUN SPEARS). NERC Grant NE/T010568/1
• 2018 – 2022: Co-Investigator. Assessment, Costing and enHancement of long Long Linear assEtS (ACHILLES). EPSRC Grant EP/R034575/1
• 2017 – 2021: Co-Investigator. RAWFILL: supporting a new circular economy for raw materials recovered from landfills. EU Interreg Grant NWE377
• 2017 – 2021: Co-Investigator. Strengthening Capacity in Environmental Physics, Hydrology and Statistics for Conservation Agriculture Research (CEPHaS). RCUK Global Challenges Research Fund Grant NE/P02095X/1
• 2016 – 2019: Principal Investigator. PRIME: Enabling Intelligent Earthworks Management. NERC Grant NE/P00914X/1
• 2015 – 2019: Principal Investigator. Infrastructure KE Fellowship (Enhancing the resilience of infrastructure to climate change & extreme weather using automated monitoring technologies). NERC Grant NE/M020622/1.

Grants on the Web

List of awards – Prof Jonathan Chambers

ORCHID:

0000-0002-8135-776X

Key papers

• Boyle, A, Wilkinson, P B, Chambers, J E, Meldrum, P I, Uhlemann, S, and Adler, A, 2018. Jointly reconstructing ground motion and resistivity for ERT-based slope stability monitoring. Geophysical Journal International, 212 (2), 1167-1182. doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx453
• Carrière, S R, Jongmans, D, Chambon, G, Bièvre, G, Lanson, B, Bertello, L, Berti M, Jaboyedoff, M, Malet J.-P, Chambers, J E, 2018. Rheological properties of clayey soils originating from flow-like landslides. Landslides. doi.org/10.1007/s10346-018-0972-6.
  Merritt, A J, Chambers, J E, Murphy, W, Wilkinson, P B, West, L J, Uhlemann, S, Meldrum, P I, and Gunn, D, 2018. Landslide Activation Behaviour Illuminated by Electrical Resistance Monitoring. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, DOI: 10.1002/esp.4316.
• Uhlemann, S, Wilkinson, P, Maurer, H, Wagner, F M, Johnson, T C, Chambers, J E, 2018. Optimized survey design for Electrical Resistivity Tomography: combined optimization of measurement configuration and electrode placement. Geophysical Journal International (in press).
• Watlet, A, Kaufmann, O, Triantafyllou, A, Poulain, A, Chambers, J E, Meldrum, P I, Wilkinson, P B, Hallet, V, Quinif, Y, Van Ruymbeke, M, and Van Camp, M, 2018. Imaging groundwater infiltration dynamics in the karst vadose zone with long-term ERT monitoring, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 1563-1592. doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1563-2018.

Published outputs

NERC Open Research Archive — Prof Jonathan Chambers

Research Gate –  Prof Jonathan Chambers

Skills

• Field instrumentation & sensor network development for near-real-time remote environmental monitoring
• Laboratory-scale imaging of geophysical properties and processes
• Near surface geoelectrical methods

Professional associations

• 2019: Highways England Intelligent Infrastructure Challenge – Asset Monitoring Winner
• 2017 – ongoing: Honorary Professor of Geophysics, University of Bristol, Earth Sciences
• 2017 – ongoing: NERC Peer Review College Member
• 2016: Ground Engineering Awards, Innovation Category Winner
• 2016 – ongoing: American Geophysical Union, Member
• 2015 – ongoing: Geophysics teaching lead, BSc Environmental Geosciences, Nottingham
• 1996 – ongoing: Geological Society of London, Fellow (and Charted Geologist, 2005 – present)