Jonathan Smith
Jonathan is a Visiting Professor of Contaminant Hydrogeology, while employed at Shell Global Solutions. At Shell Jonathan is involved with a wide variety of soil and groundwater research, portfolio and site-specific risk assessment and management, and in Shell´s global advocacy programme.
His research interests at Sheffield are focused on contaminant attenuation processes in aquifers and at the groundwater - surface water interface, including the significance of degradation and retardation processes for a range of contaminants in hyporheic zone sediments, and the relationships between geomorphological properties and natural attenuation capacity.
Prior to joining Shell in 2008, Jonathan spent 15 years at the Environment Agency developing regulatory policy and guidance for contaminated land/groundwater, including risk assessment (Remedial Targets method; ConSim; LandSim), and remediation [e.g. guidance on monitored natural attenuation (MNA) and permeable reactive barriers (PRBs)]. Jonathan represented the UK on European Commission fora on the 2006 Groundwater Directive, and co-authored European Commission Guidance on the characterisation of water bodies for the purposes of the Water Framework Directive.
Jonathan is a member of the editorial board of the Geological Society´s Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology (http://qjegh.lyellcollection.org/), the CL:AIRE Technical & Research Group (www.claire.co.uk) and the CONCAWE soil and groundwater taskforce (www.concawe.org).
BSc Geology, Durham University
MSc Hydrogeology & Groundwater Chemistry, Reading University
PhD `Pollutant retardation at the GW – SW interface´, Sheffield University
Recent Publications
2009
Smith JWN, Surridge BWJ, Haxton TH, Lerner, DN. 2009. Pollutant attenuation at the groundwater - surface water interface: A classification scheme and statistical analysis using national-scale nitrate data. Journal of Hydrology, 369, 392-402.
Smith JWN et al (as SuRF-UK). 2009. A framework for assessing the sustainability of soil and groundwater remediation. CL:AIRE report, available at: www.claire.co.uk/surfuk
Robertson AL, Smith JWN, Johns T, Proudlove GS. 2009. The distribution and diversity of British stygobites: an analysis to inform groundwater management. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 42, 359-368.
2008
Smith JWN. 2008. Pollutant retardation at the groundwater – surface water interface. PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.
Smith JWN, Lerner DN 2008. Geomorphologic controls on pollutant retardation at the groundwater – surface water interface. Hydrological Processes, 22, 4679-4694
Rivett MO, Buss SR, Morgan P, Bemment CD, Smith JWN. 2008. Nitrate attenuation in groundwater: Review of biogeochemical controlling processes. Water Research, 42, 4215-4232
Smith JWN, Bonell M, Gibert J, McDowell WH, Sudicky EA, Turner JV, Harris RC. 2008. Groundwater-surface water interactions, nutrient fluxes and ecological response in river corridors: Translating science into effective environmental management. Hydrological Processes, 22, 151-157
2007
Rivett MO, Smith JWN, Buss SR, Morgan P. 2007. Nitrate occurrence and attenuation in the major aquifers of England and Wales. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 40, 335-352.
Hodgson SM, Smith JWN. 2007. Building a research agenda on water policy: An exploration of the Water Framework Directive as an interdisciplinary problem. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 32, 187-202.
Smith JWN & Lerner DN, 2007. A framework for rapidly assessing the pollutant retardation capacity of aquifers and sediments. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 40, 137-146.
Keery, JS, Binley A, Crook N, Smith JWN, 2007. Temporal and spatial variability of groundwater - surface water fluxes: Development and application of an analytical method using temperature time series. Journal of Hydrology, 336, 1-16. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.12.003
Gandy CJ, Smith JWN & Jarvis AP, 2007. Attenuation of mining-derived pollutants in the hyporheic zone: A review. Science of the Total Environment, 373, 435-446.
2006
Buss, S.R., Thrasher, J., Morgan, P. and Smith, J.W.N., 2006. A review of mecoprop attenuation in the subsurface. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 39, 283-292.
Needham, A.D., Smith, J.W.N. and Gallagher, E.M.G., 2006. The service life of polyethylene geomembrane liners. Engineering Geology, 85, 82-90.
Smith, J.W.N., 2006. Assessing the risks to groundwater from contaminated soils. Soil Use and Management, 21, 518-526.
2005
Smith, JWN, 2005. Groundwater – surface water interactions in the hyporheic zone. Environment Agency Science report SC030155/1. EA, Bristol
Bone BD, Harris RC, Smith JWN, Boshoff GA, Kalin RM, Thurgood R, Morgan P. 2005. The development and use of permeable reactive barrier technologies and potential future applications in the UK. In: Permeable Reactive Barriers (Ed: Bone BD & Boshoff GA), IAHS Publication 298, IAHS Press, Wallingford, UK.
2004
Tait NG, Lerner DN, Smith JWN & Leharne SA, 2004. Prioritisation of abstraction boreholes at risk from chlorinated solvent contamination on the UK Permo-Triassic Sandstone aquifer using a GIS. Science of the Total Environment, 319, 77-98.
Buss SR, Morgan, P, Herbert A, Thornton, SF and Smith, JWN. 2004. A review of ammonium attenuation in soil and groundwater. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 37, 347-359.
2003
Smith JWN, Boshoff G, Bone BD. 2003. Good practice guidance on permeable reactive barriers for remediating polluted groundwater, and a review of their use in the UK. Land Contamination & Reclamation, 11(4), 411-418.
Westcott FJ, Smith JWN, Lean CMB. 2003. Piling in contaminated ground: environmental impacts, regulatory concerns and effective solutions. Engineering Geology, 70, 259-268.
Professional Affiliations
- Member of the Editorial Board of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology (2007 - 2010)
- Chartered Geologist and Fellow of the Geological Society
- Member, International Association of Hydrogeologists
- Member, European Geoscience Union
- Member, CLAIRE Technical & Research Group (WWW.claire.co.uk)
- Member, UK Government Groundwater Directive Advisory Group
Research within the CSC
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Contact Details
email : Jonathan Smith