Dr Nikki Dodd

Research

CREW delivers evidence needed to implement regulations on protecting and improving the water environment.  Nikki and the CREW team coordinate expert advice for policy needs on ongoing and emerging opportunities and challenges in areas such as water quality & health, a net-zero circular economy & societal perceptions of water issues.  The CREW team engage with a wide range of information users and communities, to maximise the benefits of the research to society.

CREW aims to:

• Deliver timely and accurate advice
• Coordinate and fund research, analysis and interpretation
• Stimulate innovative and proactive thinking
• Develop an ethos of co-production and genuine knowledge exchange
• Develop the networks and skills of researchers, policy makers and practitioners to make best use of available science leading to improved environmental, social and economic outcomes.

Past research

Nikki completed a BSc in Physical Geography at the University of Sheffield in July 2009, followed by a PhD in Ecohydrology at the University of Leeds and the James Hutton Institute (completed in February 2014). Nikki’s PhD, titled ‘Modelling the ecohydrology of moorland hillslopes’, investigated the effect of muirburn (heather burning) on the ecohydrological functioning of upland temperate hillslopes and combined field-based monitoring with a laboratory experiment and numerical modelling.

Publications

Journals

• Stutter, M.I.; Wyness, A.; Watson, H.; Dodd, N. (2020) Coupled macronutrient cycling in stream biofilms: effects of stoichiometry, light and temperature., Science of the Total Environment, 703, Article Number 134880.
• Monteith, D.; Henrys, P.; Banin, L.; Smith, R.; Morecroft, M.; Scotts, T.; Andrews, C.; Beaumont, D.; Benham, S.; Bowmaker, V.; Corbett, S.; Dick, J.; Dodd, B.; Dodd, N.; McKenna, C.; McMillan, S.; Pallett, D.; Pereira, M.G.; Poskitt, J.; Rennie, S.; Rose, R.; Schafer, S.; Sherrin, L.; Tang, S.; Turner, A.; Watson, H. (2016) Trends and variability in weather and atmospheric deposition at UK Environmental Change Network sites (1993-2012)., Ecological Indicators, 68, 21-35.
• Rose, R.; Monteith, D.T.; Henrys, P.; Smart, S.; Wood, C.; Morecroft, M.; Andrews, C.; Beaumont, D.; Benham, S.; Bowmaker, V.; Corbett, S.; Dick, J.; Dodd, B.; Dodd, N.; Flexen, M.; McKenna, C.; McMillan, S.; Pallett, D.; Rennie, S.; Schafer, S.; Scott, T.; Sherrin, L.; Turner, A.; Watson, H. (2016) Evidence for increases in vegetation species richness across UK Environmental Change Network sites linked to changes in air pollution and weather patterns., Ecological Indicators, 68, 52-62.
• Dick, J.; Andrews, C.; Beaumont, D.A.; Benham, S.; Dodd, N.; Pallett, D.; Rose, R.; Scott, T.; Smith, R.; Schafer, S.M.; Turner, A.; Watson, H. (2016) Analysis of temporal change in delivery of ecosystem services over 20 years at long term monitoring sites of the UK Environmental Change Network., Ecological Indicators, 68, 115-125.

Reports

• Addy, S.; Cooksley, S.; Dodd, N.; Waylen, K.A.; Stockan, J.; Byg, A.; Holstead, K. (2016) River restoration and biodiversity. Nature-based solutions for restoring the rivers of the UK and Republic of Ireland., Report, The James Hutton Institute, 2016, 75pp.
• Avery, L.; Hough, R.L.; Potts, J.; Newman, G.; Lilly, A.; Lumsdon, D.; Abel, C.; Dodd, N.; Cook, Y.; McIntyre, S. (2016) Effect of maintenance and different raw water quality parameters on ultraviolet (UV) disinfection in private water supplies in Scotland., Report CR/2012/01, to Scottish Government, 31 January 2016.
• Allan, R.; Wilkinson, M.; Dodd, N. (2016) The North Glasgow integrated water management system: a review., Project Report for CREW, CD2015_05, 18pp.
• Addy, S.; Cooksley, S.; Dodd, N.; Waylen, K.A.; Byg, A.; Holstead, K. (2016) River restoration and biodiversity: nature-based solutions for restoring the rivers of the UK and Republic of Ireland., Published Jointly by IUCN, NCUK and CREW, 64pp. CRW2014/10. ISBN: 978-0-902701-16-8
• Akoumianaki, I.; Cooksley, S.; Dodd, N. (2016) A review of techniques for the monitoring of fine sediments: Discussion document to inform workshop., CREW Report, CRW2016-07, 9pp.
• Addy, S.; Cooksley, S.; Dodd, N. (2015) IUCN NCUK River restoration and biodiversity expert workshop report, 5-6 November 2014., Report for CREW Project Number CRW2014_10.

Conference papers

• Marshall, K.; Waylen, K.A.; Wilkinson, M.; Dodd, N.; Beier, S. (2019) Community attitudes to natural flood management (NFM). CRW2018-03, SCOTS Conference Event, Dean Castle Visitor Centre, Kilmarnock, 28 November 2019. Powerpoint presentation.
• Artz, R.R.E.; Lewandowska, D.; Dodd, N. (2012) Forest-to-bog restoration at RSPB Forsinard:Kite-based image analysis., Flow Country Scientific Conference, Environmental Research Institute, University of the Highlands and Islands, 23-25 October 2012.
• Dodd, N.; Dunn, S.M.; Baird, A.J.; Wainwright, J. (2012) Ecohydrological patterns and vegetation management practices: importance for whole-hillslope hydrological behaviour. Examples from northern temperate hillslopes., Proceedings of the 11th British Hydrological Society National Symposium, University of Dundee, Dundee, 9-11 July 2012.

Conference posters

• Helliwell, R.C.; Glendell, M.; Zhang, Z.; Dodd, N.; Beier, S.; Ferrier, R.C.; Stutter, M.I. (2019) Working at the science-policy interface: Lessons from CREW on emerging issues and innovative approaches to monitoring and management in Scotland., India UK Water Centre Workshop, Science and Innovation for Catchment Management, University of Warwick, Coventry, 8-10 May 2019.
• Dodd, N.H.; Dunn, S.M.; Baird, A.J.; Wainwright, J. (2010) Exploring ecohydrological functioning through characterisation of spatiotemporal patterns in vegetation and soil moisture., EGU Leonardo 2010 International Conference “Looking at Catchments in Colours: Debating New Ways of Generating and Filtering Information in Hydrology”, Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg 10-12 November 2010.