Andy is an experienced researcher with expertise in geoscience and operations. As Associate Director of Operations at BGS, he works collaboratively with senior science and operational leaders to design, implement, and lead a broad programme of improvement activities that enhance operational support and scientific impact. With a strong background in research leadership, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning, he ensures operational improvements align with the BGS Strategy and Business Plan objectives. He is committed to fostering an inclusive and high-performance environment that drives the delivery of science and operations.
As a Principal Scientist, Andy鉴黄师檚 research focuses on enhancing our understanding of water security, environmental resilience, and social vulnerability through collaboration with governments and stakeholders worldwide. He specialises in simulating changes in landscape and coastal morphology to better understand physical processes and how these may change in the future, including assessing the impacts of climate, policy, and land use changes. Additionally, Andy focusses on how Digital Twins and model coupling can improve Earth system models and improve predictions. Over the last decade, Andy has gained a wealth of expertise around the translation of research into policy and social benefit.
Andrew Barkwith’s Biography
- 2023 – ongoing: BGS Associate Director of Operations
- 2019 – ongoing: BGS Principal Numerical Modeller
- 2014 – 2019: BGS Senior Numerical Modeller
- 2009 鉴黄师 2014: BGS Numerical Modeller
- 2004 鉴黄师2009 : Salford University, PhD, Atmospheric Dynamics
- 2000 鉴黄师2004 : University of Manchester, MEarthSci
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Research interests
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Climate change
- Groundwater resources
- Urban water security
- Landscape and coastal evolution
Current projects and collaborations
- Enhancing urban water security in Mexico 鉴黄师 Water security is defined as the capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water. Growing populations and the increasing trend of human migration from rural to urban environments is leading to an expansion of the metropolitan landscape, which threatens water security. In semi-arid regions, water availability can be highly variable and a lack of sustainable water resource planning in metropolitan design has further exacerbated the problem. This of 26 UK and Mexican researchers is driven by a single goal; to enhance regional water security in semi-arid regions through improved metropolitan design. Our research base is informed by comprehensive empirical studies and high-quality data evaluation. We strive to build productive relationships with stakeholders and make a positive impact on society. This consortium feeds advice and expertise into the .
- Philippines Groundwater Outlook (PhiGO) 鉴黄师 Water security is of particular concern for Filipino cities, which have been designated amongst the worst in Asia for urban water security. Changing climate and increasing urban population density will put more stress on their water resources, having an acute impact on valuable groundwater resources. Through a programme of data gathering, knowledge exchange, fieldwork, numerical modelling and stakeholder engagement the PhiGO project seeks to undertake assessments of population and climate change impacts on regional groundwater resources and translate these into usable forecasts of flood and drought risk. To better understand the potential socio-economic impacts of groundwater level extremes and potential water management strategies, PhiGO is also focussed on quantifying the cascading impacts of flood and drought through key infrastructure and analysing the cost-benefit of differing water management and urban planning scenarios.
- Coastal evolution 鉴黄师 Investigating the influences of oceanic and climatic variables on shaping soft sediment coastlines using the shoreline evolution models. These models simulates shoreline development in response to changes in deep-water wave climates, geological settings and beach properties. They are well suited to simulating decadal to centennial scale responses to change at the regional scale, for example from the addition or removal of coastal defenses. They are also well suited to improving our conceptual understanding of mesoscale coastline dynamics. These models are currently being further developed under the and are strengthening our ability to understand the resilience and recovery of UK and global coastlines to change.
- Decadal scale landscape evolution 鉴黄师 The CLiDE environmental modelling platform is a geomorphological simulator that allows a variety of Earth systems, and their interactions, to be explored. The platform includes a variety of modules, representing key terrestrial Earth system components, which may be switched on/off as required. This versatility allows CLiDE to explore a variety of scenarios at a range of timescales. CLiDE may be used to further our understanding of a particular system or to simulate the impacts of changing driving conditions on terrestrial systems. The latter is particularly relevant to the current, unprecedented, rapidly changing environment we are now experiencing. This year the project is focussed on the representation of physical anthropogenic processes on groundwater, surface water and sediment fluxes in landscape evolution models.
Past and current students (co-supervised)
PhD
- Current 鉴黄师 Ankita Bhattacharya 鉴黄师 Bangor University: The influence of groundwater and soil conditions on future flood risk of UK estuaries.
- Current 鉴黄师 Abhishek Samrat 鉴黄师 University of Central Lancashire: Combining physical coastal change indicators with socio-economic projections to estimate the impacts and risks of climate change along UK coastlines.
- 2019 鉴黄师 Chloe Morris 鉴黄师 University of Hull: Modelling the morphodynamics of sandy coastal systems under a changing climate.
- 2014 鉴黄师 Lisa Orme 鉴黄师 University of Exeter: Reconstructions of Late Holocene storminess in Europe and the role of the North Atlantic Oscillation.
MSc
- 2025 鉴黄师 Priyanka Awatramani and Emily Bowerman – AA school of Architecture: Cultivating Commons.
- 2023 鉴黄师 Camila Arretche 鉴黄师 Oxford University: Micro-catchment prioritisation for scaling Blue-Green Infrastructures (BGI) strategies in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca.
- 2023 鉴黄师 Iain Geddis 鉴黄师 University of Strathclyde. Enhancing Flood Predictions in Kingston upon Hull: Evaluating the effect of Evaporation and Manning鉴黄师檚 Coefficient on Flood Modelling
- 2022 鉴黄师 Erika Rose Alejar 鉴黄师 Ateneo de Manila University: Groundwater flood modelling and forecasting in Brgy. Balabago, Alimodian, Iloilo.
- 2021 鉴黄师 Shekinah Noa Shelomi Wenceslao 鉴黄师 Ateneo de Manila University: The role of Facebook in disaster risk reduction and management. Case study of the Municipality of Cainta.
- 2019 鉴黄师 Niels Klaver 鉴黄师 Utrecht University: Mass Movement Hazard in a Changing Climate: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Hydrological Triggering at the Rest and Be Thankful Pass, Scotland.
- 2019 鉴黄师 Eilidh Stott 鉴黄师 Glasgow University: Rainfall-to-reach, modelling of braided morphodynamics.
- 2016 鉴黄师 Dagmar Ewolds 鉴黄师 University of Gent:Dynamics of gully erosion in Northern France.
- 2015 鉴黄师 Laim Mouritz, Chan Ting Fu and Xiabin Hu 鉴黄师 AA school of Architecture: Littoral Negotiations.
- 2015 鉴黄师 Wouter Lannoeye 鉴黄师 University of Gent: Dynamics of gully erosion in Ethiopia.
- 2014 鉴黄师 Hashim Alhawsawy 鉴黄师 Cranfield University: Role of sediment distribution in the initialisation of landscape evolution models.
Published outputs
Key papers
- Lyddon, C., Chien, N., Vasilopoulos, G., Ridgill, M., Moradian, S., Olbert, A., Coulthard, T., Barkwith, A., and Robins, P. 2024. . Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 973鉴黄师997, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-973-2024.
- Lyddon, C., Robins, P., Lewis, M., Barkwith, A., Vasilopoulos, G., Haigh, I., and Coulthard, T. 2023. . Estuaries and Coasts, 46, 30-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01115-4
- Lonsdale, J.-A., Leach, C., Parsons, D., Barkwith, A., Manson, S., and Elliott, M. 2022. Environmental Science & Policy, 134, 75-84.
- Barkwith, A., Beaubien, S. E., Barlow, T., Kirk, K., Lister, T. R., Tartarello, M. C., and Taylor-Curran, H. 2020. 听Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 9(2), 483-490. https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-483-2020.
- Goddard, M. A., Davies, Z. G., Guenat, S., Ferguson, M. J., Fisher, J. C., Akanni, A., Ahjokoski, T., Anderson, P. M. L., Angeoletto, F., Antoniou, C., Bates, A. J., Barkwith, A., Berland, A., Bouch, C. J., Rega-Brodsky, C. C., Byrne, L. B., Cameron, D., Canavan, R., Chapman, T., Connop, S., Crossland, S., Dade, M. C., Dawson, D. A., Dobbs, C., Downs, C. T., Ellis, E. C., Escobedo, F. J., Gobster, P., Gulsrud, N. M., Guneralp, B., Hahs, A. K., Hale, J. D., Hassall, C., Hedblom, M., Hochuli, D. F., Inkinen, T., Ioja, I.-C., Kendal, D., Knowland, T., Kowarik, I., Langdale, S. J., Lerman, S. B., MacGregor-Fors, I., Manning, P., Massini, P., McLean, S., Mkwambisi, D. D., Ossola, A., P茅rez Luque, G., P茅rez-Urrestarazu, L., Perini, K., Perry, G., Pett, T. J., Plummer, K. E., Radji, R. A., U. R., Potts. 2021. . Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5, 219-230. DOI: 1038/s41559-020-01358-z
- Payo, A, Jigena Antelo, B, Hurst, M, Palaseanu-Lovejoy, M, Williams, C, Jenkins, G, Lee, K, Favis-Mortlock, D, Barkwith, A, and Ellis, M A. 2018. (CliffMetrics v1.0). Model Dev., 11, 4317-4337. DOI:听10.5194/gmd-11-4317-2018
- Orme, L C, Charman, D J, Reinhardt, L, Jones, R T, Mitchell, F J G, Stefanini, B S, Barkwith, A, Ellis, M A, and Grosvenor, M. 2017. Past changes in the North Atlantic storm track driven by insolation and sea-ice forcing. Geology. DOI:听
- Brown, J M, Phelps, J C C, Barkwith, A, Hurst, M D, Ellis, M A, and Plater, A J. 2016. The effectiveness of beach mega-nourishment, assessed over three management epochs.Journal of environmental management, 184, 400-408.
Barkwith, A, Hurst, M D, Jackson, C R, Wang, L, Ellis, M A, and Coulthard, T J. 2015. Simulating the influences of groundwater on regional geomorphology using a distributed, dynamic, landscape evolution modelling platform.Environmental Modelling & Software, 74, 1-20. - Hurst, M D, Barkwith, A, Ellis, M A, Thomas, C W, and Murray, A B. 2015. Exploring the sensitivities of crenulate bay shorelines to wave climates using a new vector鉴黄师恇ased one鉴黄师恖ine model. Journal of Geophysical Research, 120(12), 2586-2608.
- Van Maanen, B, Nicholls, R J, French, J R, Barkwith, A, Bonaldo, D, Burningham, H, Murray, A B, Payo, A, Sutherland, J, Thornhill, G, Townend, IH, van der Wegen, M, and Walkden, M J A. 2015. Simulating mesoscale coastal evolution for decadal coastal management: A new framework integrating multiple, complementary modelling approaches. Geomorphology, 256, 68鉴黄师80.
- Barkwith, A, Thomas, C W, Limber, P W, Ellis, M A, and Murray, A B. 2014. Coastal vulnerability of a pinned, soft-cliff coastline 鉴黄师 Part I: Assessing the natural sensitivity to wave climate. Earth Surface Dynamics 2, 295-308.
- Beaubien, S E, Jones, D G, Gal, F, Barkwith, A, Braibant, G, Baubron, J-C, Ciotoli, G, Graziani, S, Lister, T R, Lombardi, S, Michel, K, Quattrocchi, F, and Strutt, M H. 2013. Monitoring of near-surface gas geochemistry at the Weyburn, Canada, CO2-EOR site, 2001鉴黄师2011. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. DOI:听
- Prudhomme, C, Haxton, T, Crooks, S, Jackson, C, Barkwith, A, Williamson, J, Kelvin, J, Mackay, J, Wang, L, Young, A, and Watts, G. 2012. Future Flows Hydrology: an ensemble of daily river flow and monthly groundwater levels for use for climate change impact assessment across Great Britain.Earth System Science Data, 5, 101-107. DOI:听
Skills
- Operations management
- Socio-hydrology
- Numerical analysis
- Water security
- Landscape and coastal evolution
- Climate change impacts
- Numerical modelling
- Digital twins and model integration
Professional associations
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- Fellow of the (FGS)
- Member of the (MInstP)