{"id":20715,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/macdonald-alan\/"},"modified":"2023-03-21T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:55:12","slug":"macdonald-alan","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/macdonald-alan\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Alan MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Alan MacDonald&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\u00a02018 : Individual Merit Scientist (IMP3)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02006 : Principal Hydrogeologist BGS Edinburgh<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02001 : PhD, University College London, Community Water Supplies from Mudstones<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01999 \u2013 2006 : Senior Hydrogeologist BGS Edinburgh<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01996 \u2013 1999 : Hydrogeologist, WaterAid Oju Community Water Supply project Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01992 \u2013 1996 : Hydrogeologist, BGS Wallingford<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01992 : MSc (dist.) Hydrogeology, University College London<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01991 : BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Geophysics, Edinburgh University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>International groundwater development and management \u2014 particularly in\u00a0 developing countries in the context of poverty reduction and water security<\/li>\n<li>The resilience of groundwater systems to climate change and abstraction<\/li>\n<li>African groundwater and water security<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater and catchment science: floodplain hydrogeology, groundwater &amp; flooding, upland and glaciated catchments<\/li>\n<li>Providing science and data to underpin groundwater management in the UK (aquifer properties, groundwater vulnerability mapping, nitrate contamination, groundwater monitoring networks, groundwater chemistry baseline)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\u00a02016 \u20132018 : Monitoring the impact of the 2015\/16 El Nino event on water supplies in the Ethiopian Highlands<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a02015 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/grofutures.org\/\">Grofutures<\/a>: Groundwater futures for Sub-Saharan Africa<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a02015 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upgro-hidden-crisis.org\/\">UPGro Hidden Crisis<\/a>: understanding the reasons for poor functionality in groundwater hand pumps in rural Africa<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a02012 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0IGB Groundwater Resilience: A research programme aimed at strengthening the evidence base linking groundwater resources, climate variability and abstraction in the Indo-Gangetic basin<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a02011 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0Glacier monitoring: monitoring and characterising glacier hydrology in the BGS observatory at Virkisj\u00f6kull, Iceland with a particular emphasis on groundwater<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a02011 \u2013 ongoing : Characterising groundwater surface water interactions in the\u00a0Eddleston catchment\u00a0: with Dundee University<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Baseline Scotland: a joint BGS\/SEPA project to characterise the baseline chemistry and residence time of groundwater in Scotland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Published outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/3172.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Dr Alan MacDonald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Professional associations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Chair of the<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/burdon.iah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Chair International Association of Hydrogeologists Burdon Groundwater Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u00a02012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01997 : Chartered Geologist, Fellow of the Geological Society and Ordinary Fellow of the Edinburgh Geological Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":22360,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"63981,17424,67767,17592,8486,96988","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[1436],"level":[],"location":[5],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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