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| Associate Professor in hydrogeology and environmental engineering at Trinity College Dublin (Dean of Students 2003-2007). Currently engaged in research on topics such as water pollution pathways, sustainable groundwater development in Africa, recharge and groundwater vulnerability, health impacts of private water supplies, and background air quality. Previously worked for 18 years as a consultant hydrogeologist, becoming head of the Groundwater Department of Consulting Engineer Mott MacDonald and a Director of the firm's Environment and Water Resources Division. Professional experience includes water resources and environmental projects in Ireland, UK, Oman, Czechoslovakia, Bahrain, Sudan, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Nigeria. Author or co-author of over 100 publications, and more than 50 unpublished consultancy reports. In 2006, published an international textbook on 'Water Wells and boreholes' (J Wiley & Sons).
As Dean of Students, was involved in the strategic development of student services and accommodation services for the university's 15,000 student population.
Elected Vice President of the International Association of Hydrogeologists (2012). |
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Assessing, modelling and managing water and contaminant movement along pathways, from the land surface to aquatic receptors |
| Summary |
The research will improve our knowledge of over-ground and underground pathways from both diffuse and point pollution sources to receiving water bodies, by examining flow, transport and attenuation processes. Modelling of these pathways is a key objective, enabling the development of a catchment management tool. Project partners are Queen's University Belfast and UCD. |
| Funding Agency |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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STRIVE |
| Type of Project |
Research |
| Date from |
July 2008 |
| Date to |
December 2013 |
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| Project title |
Water is Life |
| Summary |
Project includes doctoral research concerned with sustainable groundwater development in Uganda. This aspect involves an assessment of the effectiveness of improved well sources in an area of southwest Uganda, together with preparation of a catchment water balance and modeling of potential impacts of changing climate on water sources. The wider project involves 7 Irish third level institutions (including TCD), plus Makerere University in Kampala, and is being led by Dundalk IT. |
| Funding Agency |
HEA / Irish Aid |
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| Date from |
2008 |
| Date to |
2014 |
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Groundwater monitoring in Ireland |
| Summary |
Co-supervisor of research fellowship analysing groundwater level and groundwater quality data in Ireland |
| Funding Agency |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| Programme |
STRIVE |
| Type of Project |
Research fellowship |
| Date from |
July 2008 |
| Date to |
June 2012 |
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| Project title |
Hydraulic performance of subsoils |
| Summary |
Hydrogeological researcher on 3 EPA projects to establish the hydraulic performance and efficiencies of different subsoils and the effectiveness of alternative secondary systems for treating effluent from single houses. The current project (2011-2014) is investigating treatment performance and options (including willow beds) in areas with poor soil drainage characteristics. |
| Funding Agency |
EPA |
| Programme |
STRIVE |
| Type of Project |
Research |
| Date from |
2001 (First project) |
| Date to |
2014 (Current project) |
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Background air quality |
| Summary |
Previous research indicated that the accuracy of air quality model predictions is strongly influenced by assumptions made about background air quality. This research included an assessment of diurnal and seasonal variations in the background concentrations of air pollutants such as PM10, NOx and CO, back trajectory modelling of air mass history and development of guidelines for estimating background concentrations of air pollutants for a range of Irish conditions. |
| Funding Agency |
EPA |
| Programme |
STRIVE |
| Type of Project |
PhD |
| Date from |
Oct 2007 |
| Date to |
March 2011 |
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| More Research Projects>>> |
| K.M. Tedd, B.D.R. Misstear, C. Coxon, D. Daly and N. Hunter Williams, Hydrogeological insights from groundwater level hydrographs in southeast Ireland, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, 45, 2012, p19 - 30 |
| BDR Misstear, Some key issues in the design of water wells in unconsolidated and fractured rock aquifers, Acque Sotterranee, Italian Journal of Groundwater, AS02006, 2012, p9 - 17 |
P. Hynds, B.D.R. Misstear and L.W. Gill, Investigation of water consumption patterns among Irish adults as part of waterborne quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA), Journal of Water and Health, 10, (3), 2012, p453 - 464
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P. Hynds, B.D.R. Misstear and L.W. Gill, Development of a microbial contamination susceptibility model for private domestic groundwater sources, Water Resources Research, 48, (W12504), 2012, p1-10
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BDR Misstear, L Brown and D Daly, A methodology for making initial estimates of groundwater recharge from groundwater vulnerability mapping, Hydrogeology Journal, 17, (2), 2009, p275 - 285
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| More Publications>>> |
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