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Dr. David M OliverLecturer in Catchment Management and Water QualityPhD University of Sheffield (in collaboration with Institute of Grassland & Environmental Research) 2005 BSc University of Sheffield 2001
Room 4B148, Cottrell Building Biological & Environmental Sciences
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Research Interests
There are two critical strands of my research portfolio. The first is to further understanding of behavioural traits of pollutants in the soil-water continuum and advance process understanding in environmental and agricultural systems. The second is to use this knowledge to solve real world issues through applied research and knowledge exchange. To maximise the potential of these two research strands I operate within interdisciplinary research teams, with both social and natural scientists and the research and policy communities. My research interests can be defined within the following three key research themes:
Environment, Pollution and Human Health
Understanding the fate and transfer of microbial pollutants and emerging pathogens warrants significant attention and is highly topical both within research council agendas and policy arenas.
Integrated Catchment Management
Interdisciplinary frameworks that recognise the importance of integrating science and social science, multiple-pollutants and multiple-stakeholders represent an important shift for more rewarding catchment scale studies.
Diffuse pollution risk assessment and modelling
The development of decision support tools and models for different stakeholder and end-users is paramount and offers potential to overlap and complement the previous two research themes.
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Current Projects
Re-shaping models to forecast faecal pathogen risk to humans. [NERC funded Spring 2012 - Summer 2014, PI David Oliver, University of Stirling]
Centre of expertise for water (CREW): Diffuse pollution management. [Scottish Government funded october 2011 - March 2012, PIs Andy Vinten (James Hutton Institute) & David Oliver, University of Stirling)]
Delivering healthy water: building the science-policy interface to protect bathing water quality. [NERC funded Autumn 2011 - Spring 2013, PI David Oliver, University of Stirling]
Catchment modelling strategies for faecal indicator organisms: options review and recommendations. [Defra funded September 2010-March 2011, PI Dave Kay, Aberystwyth University]
Delivery of phosphorus and faecal indicator organisms from agricultural sources to watercourses (PEDAL2). [Defra funded July 2008-June 2013, PI Louise Heathwaite/Phil Haygarth, Lancaster University]
Postgraduate Teaching
- RBMP03: River Basin Processes (contributor)
- ENMP08: Catchment Management & Water Quality (contributor)
- ENMP21: Environmental Systems & Assessment (contributor)
- ENMP17: Field Techniques for Environmental Managers; Donana Fieldcourse (contributor)
Undergraduate Teaching
- ENV7WM: Sustainable Water Management (Co-ordinator)
- GEO2EI: Global Environmental Issues (Co-ordinator)
- ENV9PR: Honours Project (Supervisor)
Publications
Under review
Zhang, T., Page, T., Heathwaite, A. L., Beven, K., Oliver, D. M., and Haygarth, P. M. (under review). Estimating phosphorus delivery with its mitigation measures from soil to stream using fuzzy rules. Soil Use & Management.
Oliver, D. M., Page, T., Zhang, T., Heathwaite, A. L., Beven, K., Carter, H., McShane, G., Keenan, P. O. and Haygarth, P. M. (under review). Determining E. coli burden on pasture in a headwater catchment: combined field and modelling approach. Environment International.
Fish R. D., Winter M., Chadwick D. R., Hodgson C. J., Oliver D. M., Heathwaite A. L. (under review) Employing the citizens jury technique to elicit reasoned public assessments of environmental risk: insights from a recent inquiry into microbial watercourse pollution. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
Refereed Journal Articles
Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Winter, M., Hodgson, C. J., Heathwaite, A. L., and Chadwick, D. R. (2012). Valuing local knowledge as a source of expert data: farmer engagement and the design of decision support systems. Environmental Modelling & Software. in press
Austin, Z., Alcock, R. E., Christley, R. M., Haygarth, P. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Latham, S., Mort, M., Oliver, D. M., Pickup, R., Wastling, J., and Wynne, B. (2012). Policy, practice and decision making for zoonotic disease management: Water and Cryptosporidium. Environment International 40, 70-78.
Fish, R., Austin, Z., Christley, R., Haygarth, P. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Latham, S., Medd, W., Mort, M., Oliver, D. M., Pickup, R., Wastling, J., and Wynne, B. (2011). Uncertainties in the governance of animal disease: an interdisciplinary framework for analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366, 2023-2034.
Winter, M., Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Heathwaite, A. L., Chadwick, D. R and Hodgson, C. J. (2011). Catchments, subcatchments and private spaces: scale and process in managing microbial pollution from source to sea. Environmental Science and Policy, 14, 315-326.
Bridge, J. W., Oliver, D. M., Chadwick, D, Godfray, C., Heathwaite, A. L., Kay, D., Maheswaran, R., McGonigle, D., Nichols, G., Pickup, R., Porter, J., Wastling, J., and Banwart, S. A. (2010). Engaging with the water sector for public health benefits: waterborne pathogens and diseases in developed countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 88, 873-875.
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., and Haygarth, P. M. (2010). A ‘culture’ change in catchment microbiology? Hydrological Processes, 24, 2973-2976.
Oliver, D. M., Page, T., Heathwaite, A. L., Hodgson, C. J., Chadwick, D. R., Fish, R. D., Winter, M. (2010). Development and testing of a risk indexing framework to determine field-scale critical source areas of faecal bacteria on grassland. Environmental Modelling and Software, 25, 503-512.
Oliver, D. M., Page, T., Heathwaite, A. L., and Haygarth, P. M. (2010). Re-shaping models of E. coli population dynamics in livestock faeces: increased bacterial risk to humans? Environment International, 36, 1-7.
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Fish, R. D., Chadwick, D. R., Hodgson, C. J., Winter, M., and Butler A. (2009). Scale appropriate modelling of diffuse microbial pollution from agriculture. Progress in Physical Geography, 33, 358-377.
Hodgson, C. J., Bulmer, N., Chadwick, D. R., Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Fish, R. D. and Winter, M. (2009). Establishing relative release kinetics of faecal indicator organisms from different faecal matrices. Letters in Applied Microbiology 49, 124-130.
Fish R. D., Winter M., Oliver D. M., Chadwick D. R., Selfa T., Heathwaite A. L. and Hodgson C. J. (2009) Unruly pathogens: eliciting values for environmental risk in the context of heterogeneous expert knowledge. Environmental Science and Policy, 12, 281-296.
Oliver, D. M., Fish, R. D., Hodgson, C. J., Heathwaite, A. L., Chadwick, D. R. and Winter, M. (2009). A cross-disciplinary toolkit to assess the risk of faecal indicator loss from grassland farm systems to surface waters. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 129, 401-412.
Chadwick, D. R., Fish, R. D., Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Hodgson, C. J. and Winter, M. (2008). Management of livestock and their manure to reduce the risk of microbial transfers to water – the case for an interdisciplinary approach. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 19, 240-247.
Oliver, D. M., Clegg, C. D., Heathwaite, A. L. and Haygarth, P. M. (2007). Preferential attachment of Escherichia coli to different particle size fractions of an agricultural grassland soil. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 185, 369-375.
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Hodgson, C. J. and Chadwick, D. R. (2007). Mitigation and current management attempts to limit pathogen survival and movement within farmed grasslands. Advances in Agronomy 93, 95-152.
Oliver, D. M., Haygarth, P. M., Clegg, C. D. and Heathwaite, A. L. (2006). Differential E. coli die-off patterns associated with agricultural matrices. Environmental Science and Technology 40, 5710-5716.
Oliver, D. M., Heathwaite, A. L., Haygarth, P. M. and Clegg, C. D. (2005). Transfer of Escherichia coli to water from drained and undrained grassland after grazing. Journal of Environmental Quality 34, 918-924.
Oliver, D. M., Clegg, C. D., Haygarth, P. M. and Heathwaite, A. L. (2005). Assessing the potential for pathogen transfer from grassland soils to surface waters. Advances in Agronomy 85, 125-180.
Authored Book Chapters
Oliver, D. M. and Heathwaite, A. L. (Commissioned by Springer: due for publication 2011). Invisible threats: Movement of pathogens and nutrients through and across agricultural soils, Chapter 15 in Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (Eds. R. A. Meyers). Springer
External activities
Editorial Board Member of the Journal: Environment International
Member of the British Soil Science Society and British Hydrological Society
