Dr Kerr Adams

Research

• Emerging Water Futures – Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2022-27 – Co-developing a catchment-scale model to investigate drought risks and their impacts to key sectors in Scotland.
• Climate Change Impacts on Natural Capital – Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme 2022-27 – fire danger and risk assessments for Natural Capital assets.
• MOT4Rivers – NERC UK freshwaters research programme 2022-25 – Co-developing a decision support tool to investigate multi-pollutant impacts on ecological safe spaces to inform management actions
• Creating healthy and resilient river systems across Scotland: prioritising research and development gap opportunities for river woodlands – Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) 2024-25 – literature review of evidence gaps related to the planting or river woodlands in Scotland
• Scotland’s Global Partnership for Knowledge and Expertise in Water and Climate (SPARKE) – Scottish Government 2023-26 – facilitating collaboration with Malawian partners to address global water and climate challenges

Past research

• Future Predictions of Water Scarcity in Scotland: Impacts to Distilleries and Agricultural Abstractors – Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) 2023-24 – reviewing evidence of water scarcity in Scotland and identifying impacts and adaptation options via stakeholder engagement with agricultural and distilling sectors
• Malawi-Scotland Regulatory Partnership – Scottish Government 2023-24 – reviewing Malawi’s water management information system to promote management and policy action and supporting with project management.
• What lies beneath? Emergent global issues associated with reservoir drinking water provision – Hydro Nation Chair Catalyst Fund 2023-24 – conducting a global literature review of contaminants of emerging concern in drinking water reservoirs to inform Scottish Water’s risk framework
• Scotland’s freshwater landscape and its resilience to change: an assessment to support future policy – Hydro Nation Scholars Programme 2018-22 – identifying stakeholder knowledge needs and co-developing a decision support tool to inform collaborative and innovative water management actions.
• Irrigation Practice Adoption: Causes and Consequences in the Arkansas Delta – University of Arkansas 2016-18 – investigation of potential returns on investment and groundwater recharge outcomes from the adoption of alternative irrigation practices