{"id":20717,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/macdonald-david\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T11:24:03","slug":"macdonald-david","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/macdonald-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr David 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\">Skills &amp; qualifications<\/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>David Macdonald&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\u00a02010 \u2013 ongoing : Head of Station, BGS Wallingford<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01989 \u2013 ongoing : Hydrogeologist, British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02012 \u2013 2019 : PhD University of Reading, Groundwater flows in an urbanised floodplain and implications for environmental management<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01989 : MSc University of Newcastle, Water Resource Systems Engineering<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01984 \u2013 1988 : BSc University of Edinburgh, Geophysics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>ORCID<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/000000033475636X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">000000033475636X<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Groundwater flooding<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater policy and management<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater resource assessment<\/li>\n<li>Raising awareness of groundwater issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><a href=\"https:\/\/landwise-nfm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LANDWISE: LAND Management in lowland catchments for Integrated flood riSk rEduction<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; NERC Grant NE\/R004668\/1<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upgro.org\/consortium\/brave2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BRAVE: Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; NERC\/ESRC\/DFID Grant NE\/M008827\/1<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/futureclimateafrica.org\/project\/hycristal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HYCRISTAL: Integrating hydro-climate science into policy decisions for climate-resilient infrastructure and livelihoods in East Africa<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; NERC\/DFID Grant NE\/M020452\/1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Key publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Badjana, H M, Cloke, H L, Verhoef, A, Julich, S, Camargos, C, Collins, S L, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, McGuire, P C, and Clark, J. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jfr3.12912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can hydrological models assess the impact of natural flood management in groundwater dominated catchments?<\/a> <em>Journal of Flood Risk Management<\/em> (accepted). p.e12912, doi.org\/10.1111\/jfr3.12912<\/li>\n<li>Collins, S L, Verhoef, A, Mansour, M, Jackson, C R, Short, C, and <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jfr3.12896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modelling the effectiveness of land\u2010based natural flood management in a large, permeable catchment<\/a>. <em>Journal of Flood Risk Management<\/em>, e12896, doi.org\/10.1111\/jfr3.12896<\/li>\n<li>Ascott, M J, Christelis, V, Lapworth, D J, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Tindimugaya, C, Iragena, A, Finney, D, Fitzpatrick, R, Marsham, J H, and Rowell, D P. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022169423000392?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On the application of rainfall projections from a convection-permitting climate model to lumped catchment models<\/a>. <em>Journal of Hydrology<\/em>, p.129097, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2023.129097<\/li>\n<li>Bianchi, M, Palamakumbura, R N, MacDonald, A M, and <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>. 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10040-023-02594-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assessing regional variation in yield from weathered basement aquifers in West Africa and modelling their future groundwater development and sustainability<\/a>. <em>Hydrogeology Journal<\/em>, doi.org\/10.1007\/s10040-023-02594-w<\/li>\n<li>Kreibich, H, Van Loon, A F, Schr\u00f6ter, K. et al., 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-022-04917-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management<\/a>. <em>Nature<\/em>:1-7, doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-022-04917-5<\/li>\n<li>Ascott, M J, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Sandwidi, W J P, Black, E, Verhoef, A, Zongo, G, Tirogo, J, and Cook, P A. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022169422006825?via%3Dihub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time of emergence of impacts of climate change on groundwater levels in sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>. <em>Journal of Hydrology<\/em>, p.128107, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2022.128107<\/li>\n<li>Nyenje, P M, Ocoromac, D, Tumwesige, S, Ascott, M J, Sorensen, J P R, Newell, A J, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Gooddy, D C, Tindimugaya, C, Kulabako, R, Lapworth, D J, and Foppen, J. 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10040-022-02474-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hydrogeology of an urban weathered basement aquifer in Kampala, Uganda<\/a>. <em>Hydrogeology Journal<\/em>, doi.org\/10.1007\/s10040-022-02474-9.<\/li>\n<li>Cook, P A, Black, E C, Verhoef, A, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, and Sorensen, J P R. 2022. Projected increases in potential groundwater recharge and reduced evapotranspiration under future climate conditions in West Africa. <em>Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies<\/em>, 41, 101076.<\/li>\n<li>Collins, S L, Christelis, V, Jackson, C R, Mansour, M M, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, and Barkwith, A K. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2020.125755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Towards integrated flood inundation modelling in groundwater-dominated catchments<\/a>. <em>Journal of Hydrology<\/em>, p.125755, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhydrol.2020.125755<\/li>\n<li>Ascott, M J, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Black, E, Verhoef, A, Nakohoun, P, Tirogo, J, Sandwidi, W J P, Bliefernicht, J, Sorensen, J P R, and Bossa, A Y. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2020WR028056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In\u2010situ observations and lumped parameter model reconstructions reveal intra\u2010annual to multi\u2010decadal variability in groundwater levels in sub\u2010Saharan Africa<\/a>. <em>Water Resources Research<\/em>, p.e2020WR028056, doi.org\/10.1029\/2020WR028056<\/li>\n<li>Bianchi, M, MacDonald, A M, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, and Asare, E B. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2020WR027746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigating the productivity and sustainability of weathered basement aquifers in tropical Africa using numerical simulation and global sensitivity analysis<\/a>. <em>Water Resources Research<\/em>, 56 (9), p.e2020WR027746, doi.org\/10.1029\/2020WR027746<\/li>\n<li>Larbi, I, Obuobie, E, Verhoef, A, Julich, S, Feger, K H, Bossa, A Y, and <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02626667.2020.1802467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water balance components estimation under scenarios of land cover change in the Vea catchment, West Africa<\/a>. <em>Hydrological Sciences Journal<\/em>, pp.1-14, doi.org\/10.1080\/02626667.2020.1802467<\/li>\n<li>Yapiyev, V, Skrzypek, G, Verhoef, A, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, and Sagintayev, Z. 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejrh.2019.100644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Between boreal Siberia and arid Central Asia\u2013stable isotope hydrology and water budget of Burabay National Nature Park ecotone (Northern Kazakhstan)<\/a>. <em>Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies<\/em>, 27, p.100644, doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ejrh.2019.100644<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Cuthbert, M O, Taylor, R G, Favreau, G, Todd, M C, Shamsudduha, M, Villholth, K G, MacDonald, A M, Scanlon, B R, Kotchoni, D O V, Vouillamoz, J M, Lawson, F M A, Adjomayi, P A, Kashaigili, J , Seddon, D , Sorensen, J P R, Ebrahim, G Y, Owor, M, Nyenje, P M, Nazoumou, Y, Goni, I, Ousmane, B I, Sibanda, T, Ascott, M J, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Agyekum, W, Koussoub\u00e9, Y, Wanke, H, Kim, H, Wada, Y, Lo, M-H, Oki, T, and Kukuric, N. 2019. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/pure.iiasa.ac.at\/id\/eprint\/16023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa<\/a>. Nature, 572(7768), 230-234.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Dixon, A J, and Gooddy, D C. 2018. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0925857418303276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Water and nitrate exchange between a managed river and peri-urban floodplain aquifer: Quantification and management implications.\u00a0<\/a><em>Ecological Engineering<\/em>, 123, 226-237.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Miller, J D, Winterbourn, J B, Warnaars, T A, Mwebembezi, L, Arwat, P, and Tanywa, S. 2018. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5285\/a2a8100c46794985b410ea436f24812a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High resolution meteorological data from a network of five stations in Kampala, Uganda.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.<\/em>, doi.org\/10.5285\/a2a8100c46794985b410ea436f24812a.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Ascott, M J, Marchant, B P, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, McKenzie, A A, and Bloomfield, J P. 2017. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/hyp.11380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improved understanding of spatio\u2010temporal controls on regional scale groundwater flooding using hydrograph analysis and impulse response functions\u00a0<\/a><em>Hydrological Processes<\/em>, 31(25), 4586-4599.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Punalekar, S, Verhoef, A, Tatarenko, I V, van der Tol, C, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Marchant, B, Gerard, F, White, K, and Gowing, D J. 2016. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2072-4292\/8\/2\/112\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Characterization of a highly biodiverse floodplain meadow using hyperspectral remote sensing within a plant functional trait framework.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Remote Sensing<\/em>, 8(2),112.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Gooddy, D C, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Lapworth, D J, Bennet, S, and Griffiths, K J. 2014. <a class=\"bodylink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/508109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitrogen sources, transport and processing in peri-urban floodplains.<\/a>\u00a0Science of The Total Environment, 494, 28-38.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, and Edmunds, W M. 2014. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/504974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Estimation of groundwater recharge in weathered basement aquifers, Southern Zimbabwe; a geochemical approach.<\/a>\u00a0Applied Geochemistry 42, 86\u2013100.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Macdonald, D M J, Dixon, A, Newell, A J, and Hallaways, A. 2012.<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/17491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Groundwater flooding within an urbanised flood plain<\/a>. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 5, 68\u201380.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Taylor, R, Tindimugaya, C, Barker, J A, Barrett, M, Macdonald, D M J, Kulabako, R, Nalubega, M, and Edwardmartin, R. 2010. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1745-6584.2008.00547.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convergent radial tracing of ground water flow and storage in gneiss saprolite of Uganda.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Ground Water<\/em>, 48(2), 284-294.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">Macdonald, A M, Calow, R C, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Darling, W G, and \u00d3 Docharteigh, B \u00c9. 2009. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/content~db=all~content=a917971128~frm=titlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What impact will climate change have on rural water supplies in Africa?<\/a>\u00a0<em>Hydrological Sciences Journal<\/em>, 54(4).<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Bloomfield, J P, Hughes, A G, Macdonald, A M, Adams, B, and McKenzie, A A. 2008. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/7760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improving the understanding of the risk from groundwater flooding in the UK.<\/a>\u00a0Proceedings of FLOODrisk 2008, European Conference on Flood Risk Management, Oxford, UK, 30 September to 2 October 2008.\u00a0<em>CRC Press<\/em>, The Netherlands.<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">\u00a0Smedley, P L, Kinniburgh, D G, <strong>Macdonald, D M J<\/strong>, Nicolli, H B, Barros, A J, Tullio, J O, Pearce, J M, and Alonso, M S. 2005. <a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0883292704002355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arsenic associations in sediments from the loess aquifer of La Pampa, Argentina.<\/a>\u00a0<em>Applied Geochemistry<\/em>, 20(5), 989-1016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Published outputs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li><a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/2533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 David Macdonald<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Skills<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Groundwater resource assessment and management in the UK and internationally<\/li>\n<li>Wide experience of project management in the UK and overseas<\/li>\n<li>Information Technology, including: GIS, R, databasing, HTML<\/li>\n<li>Communicating information on groundwater to non-specialists<\/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":24324,"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":"91674,72765,37440,97428,70166,85729","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[180],"level":[],"location":[162],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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