Major areas of study include:
- hydrology
- hydrogeology
- river restoration and rehabilitation
- drinking water treatment
- waste water treatment
- water resources planning and management
Current research activities include:
- river restoration/rehabilitation and aquatic habitat improvement
- remediation of soil and groundwater
- identification, quantification and treatment options for pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting substances
- reactions of aquatic natural organic matter with chemical disinfectants
- regional flood frequency analysis
- land surfaces schemes for numerical weather prediction and atmospheric general circulation models
- numerical modelling of contaminants in subsurface systems
- pathogen removal during water and wastewater treatment
- field and numerical modelling studies on urban river mechanics
- odour formation and control in waste management
- basin scale isotope hydrology and sediment transport of non-point source contaminants
- numerical and field studies of groundwater surface water interaction
- physico-chemical water and wastewater treatment processes
- analysis of drought characteristics
- mass transport processes in porous media
- formation, removal and avoidance of organic by-products of water treatment processes
- modelling the impact of urbanization and agricultural practices on wetland ecosystems
- advanced sludge digestion processes
- identification of known and emerging pathogens in watersheds
- characterization of aquatic natural organic matter
- impacts of climate change on hydrologic variables and water resource systems
- fate of substances in wastewater collection and treatment
- integrated atmospheric/hydrological models
- the development of deterministic event-based and continuous wetland models
- distributed hydrological models
- treatment process design and optimization