{"id":20854,"date":"2020-03-05T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/upton-kirsty\/"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T09:32:56","slug":"upton-kirsty","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/upton-kirsty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Kirsty Upton"},"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; software<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-5\">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>Kirsty Upton&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2014 \u2013 ongoing : Hydrogeologist, British Geological Survey<\/li>\n<li>2010 \u20132014 : PhD, Imperial College London, Water Resources Engineering<\/li>\n<li>2008 \u20132009 : MSc, Cardiff University, Environmental Hydrogeology<\/li>\n<li>2003 \u20132007 : BSc, University of St. Andrews, Geoscience<\/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 &amp; management<\/li>\n<li>African hydrogeology<\/li>\n<li>Numerical modelling for groundwater resource assessment<\/li>\n<li>Groundwater response to climate change and extreme events<\/li>\n<li>Water resources and food security<\/li>\n<li>Methods for interdisciplinary research, knowledge exchange and research into practice, particularly developing links between the research and NGO sector to increase uptake of research in a development context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Current projects and collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">2016 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/upgro.org\/\">Unlocking the Potential of Groundwater for the Poor (UPGro)<\/a>: Programme coordination, science integration and knowledge exchange<\/li>\n<li class=\"blueBullet\">2014 \u2013 ongoing :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/africagroundwateratlas\/index.cfm\">Africa Groundwater Atlas and Africa Groundwater Literature Archive<\/a>:Development of an online resource providing hydrogeology profiles for every country in Africa (in collaboration with over 50 African partners), background information on groundwater in Africa, and a searchable database of thousands of references related to groundwater in Africa<\/li>\n<li>2016 \u2013 ongoing : Numerical modelling of the impacts of climate change and vertical heterogeneity on borehole yields and Deployable Output<\/li>\n<li>2010 \u2013 ongoing : Development and application of numerical methods for groundwater resource assessment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Publications<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"bodyLink\" href=\"http:\/\/nora.nerc.ac.uk\/view\/author\/4904.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NERC Open Research Archive \u2014 Kirsty Upton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><h2 class=\"clearLeft\">Software<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li class=\"blueBullet\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/research\/environmentalModelling\/Modellingflowtoboreholes.html\">SPIDERR Flow Model<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-5\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Professional associations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2014 &#8211; ongoing:Member of the International Association of Hydrogeologists<\/li>\n<li>2007 &#8211; ongoing:Fellow of the Geological Society, London<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Boards and commitees<\/strong><br \/>\n2012 &#8211; ongoing: Trustee, <a href=\"http:\/\/groundwater-relief.org\/\">Groundwater Relief<\/a>: NGO providing relief, support, income and livelihood opportunities to people, anywhere in the world, who live in poverty, or lack access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water, by developing their and their water providers\u2019 capacity to sustainably develop groundwater 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