{"id":20718,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mackay-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T09:03:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:03:11","slug":"mackay-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mackay-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Jonathan Mackay"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Jon is a senior hydrologist with expertise in modelling hydrological and groundwater flow processes. His work is improving understanding of water supply vulnerabilities due to environmental pressures and providing advanced warning of hydrological extremes: floods and droughts, in a world with an increasingly variable climate. His research spans a range of geographical settings in countries including the UK, Taiwan, India, Africa, Iceland and Peru. In the UK, Jon\u2019s research is primarily focussed on groundwater resources and hazards. He developed the UK\u2019s first operational groundwater forecasting system, outputs from which have been used to brief the UK Government\u2019s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies during flood and drought event. He also leads the daily Groundwater Flood Forecasting Service: the principal groundwater flooding early warning system for England and Wales. Internationally, Jon has a particular interest in the world\u2019s so called \u2018water towers\u2019 (mountains) where water cycling and resource availability are influenced by interactions between surface hydrology, groundwater and melt from snow and glaciers. His research spans a broad range of collaborators and stakeholders including universities, water companies, water regulators, governmental and non-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\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>\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>Jonathan Mackay&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2021 \u2013 ongoing: Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>2011 \u2013 ongoing : Hydrologist, BGS Keyworth.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02015 \u20132019 : PhD. Twenty-first century glacial and hydrological change in the Virkisj\u00f6kull Glacier Observatory, Iceland. University of Birmingham.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02009 \u20132010 : MSc with Distinction, Hydrology and Water Resource Management, Imperial College London.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a02006 \u20132009 : BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Environmental Science, Lancaster University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research focus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Groundwater extremes and risk under climate change<\/li>\n<li>Development of operational groundwater forecasting systems for early warning of groundwater flooding and drought<\/li>\n<li>Glacial water resources and security under climate change<\/li>\n<li>Glacier dynamics and hydrology modelling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected ongoing projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Groundwater Resources in a Changing Climate (<a href=\"http:\/\/gotw.nerc.ac.uk\/list_full.asp?pcode=NE%2FX002470%2F1\">GRCC<\/a>), Co-I: A Taiwan &amp; UK partnership to share and develop groundwater knowledge and expertise (National Cheng Kung University)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/geology-projects\/groundwater-level-forecasting\/#:~:text=Groundwater%20Flood%20Forecasting%20Service&amp;text=The%20forecasts%20are%20updated%20on,30%20days%20into%20the%20future.\">Groundwater Flood Forecasting Service<\/a>, project lead: Operational forecasting for the Flood Forecasting Centre.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ukesm.ac.uk\/terrafirma\/\">TerraFIRMA<\/a>, Co-I: Future Impacts, Risks and Mitigation Actions in a changing Earth system (NCAS, UKCEH, NOC, PML, BAS, NCEO, CPOM).<\/li>\n<li>BGS-IGRD Andean Mountain Groundwater Project, task lead: Part of the BGS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/geological-research\/bgs-international\/international-geoscience-research-and-development\/\">international geoscience research and development programme<\/a> (CONDESAN, INGEMMET)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceh.ac.uk\/our-science\/projects\/eflag-enhanced-future-flows-and-groundwater\">eFLaG<\/a>, Co-I: Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (UKCEH, HRWallingford)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PhD supervision:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Water cycling in high-altitude wetlands \u2013 implications for water security in the Peruvian Andes, lead supervisor (University of Birmingham, Imperial College London, CONDESAN)<\/li>\n<li>Nature-based solutions for Andean Water Security, co-supervisor (Imperial College London)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/6294.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Jon Mackay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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":106337,"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":"17361,16565,16673,60729,17181,59827","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[180],"level":[],"location":[154],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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