Dr Bob Ferrier

Bob Ferrier leads the Catchment Management Research Programme. This Programme focuses on the hydrological, hydrochemical and ecological consequences of environmental change; in particular land use and management, and climate change. His own research interests centre on the potential role of policy and land use change on water resources and the development of systems based models and frameworks for sustainable management. He has been a champion for research addressing the global challenge of diffuse pollution.

Research Interests

Bob is a current member of the CEH Programme Development Group which advises on the CEH Science Strategy and progress against NERC objectives. In 2006 he was the first International Flagship Fellow for CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Programme advising on national research capability in relation to the protection of the Great Barrier Reef. He is an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Physical Science, University of Aberdeen, and a member of the UK NERC-BBRSC Soils Research Advisory Committee, and acts as an Evaluator for National, North American and European funding programmes.

Bob's most recent publications

• Integrated water resources management: competing policy demands mean greater complexity., Jenkins, A.; Ferrier, R.C., (In press) Water and Wastewater International.

• The catchment management concept., Ferrier, R.C.; Jenkins, A., (2010) In: Handbook of Catchment Management (eds. R.C. Ferrier and A. Jenkins), Blackwell Publications, Oxford, pp1-17.

• The future for catchment management., Ferrier, R.C.; Jenkins, A.; Blackstock, K., (2010) In: Handbook of Catchment Management (eds. R.C. Ferrier and A. Jenkins), Blackwell Publications, Oxford, pp501-515.

• Effluent management., Jenkins, A.; Ferrier, R.C., (2010) In: Handbook of Catchment Management (eds. R.C. Ferrier and A. Jenkins), Blackwell Publications, Oxford, pp135-153.

• Soaring demand for allotments., Ferrier, R.C., (2009) BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Reporting Scotland (audio clip), 13th October 2009.

• Understanding water quality - past perspectives and future challenges., Ferrier, R.C., (2009) International Colloquium, Vision on Water Resources Monitoring in the 21st Century, University of Antwerp, 26th November 2009. Plenary Presentation.

• Phosphorus in Scottish surface waters., Futter, M.; Ferrier, R.C.; Baggaley, N.; Anderson, H.; Cooksley, S., (2009) Knowledge Scotland KTE Event, SEPA, Stirling, 29th May 2009.

• Input to Scottish Govenrment consultation on implementation of the WEWS Act., Blackstock, K.L.; Ferrier, R.C., (2008)

• Launch of Macaulay film., Ferrier, R.C.; Coull, M.C., (2008) State of Scotland's Water Conference, Edinburgh.

• SAC/SEPA Conference., Futter, M.; Ferrier, R.C.; Dunn, S.M.; Blackstock, K.L.; Vinten, A.J.A. , (2008) Edinburgh.