Jonathan Paul
Linking mantle convection to geohazards and sustainable groundwater development
I am a geophysicist with particular interests in landscape development, hydrogeology, and geohazards. My current research focuses on (i) developing new ways of reducing risk and building resilience to landslides and flooding, by leveraging new technology and participatory monitoring (e.g. “citizen science”); (ii) understanding the ways in which sub-lithospheric mantle convection has an impact on the Earth’s surface (i.e. dynamic topography) and immediate sub-surface (such as the development and of naturally fractured aquifers).
I have focused on several field areas, including Nepal and Madagascar; current effort is devoted towards east Africa, at the intersection between spatiotemporal changes in mantle convection, groundwater resource management, and sustainable development.
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Community-level water resources management in central Tanzania. |
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Testing a low-cost, self-built lidar river level sensor (using the Arduino platform) on the River Thames |
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Dramatic incision of Ruvuma river catchment, east Africa, in response to surface uplift pulses that are governed by changes in sub-lithospheric mantle convection |
References
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Paul, J, Buytaert, W, Allen, S, Ballesteros-Canovas, J, Bhusal, J, Cieslik, K, Clark, J, Dugar, S, Hannah, DM, Stoffel, M, Dewulf, A, Dhital, MR, Liu, W, Nayaval, JL, Neupane, B, Schiller, A, Smith, PJ & Supper, R 2018, 'Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building', Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, vol. 5, no. 1, e1262, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1262
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Paul, J, Roberts, GG & White, N 2014, 'The African Landscape through Space and Time', Tectonics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 898-935. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013TC003479
