Alan MacDonald’s Biography
- 聽2018 : Individual Merit Scientist (IMP3)
- 聽2012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee
- 聽2006 : Principal Hydrogeologist BGS Edinburgh
- 聽2001 : PhD, University College London, Community Water Supplies from Mudstones
- 聽1999 鉴黄师 2006 : Senior Hydrogeologist BGS Edinburgh
- 聽1996 鉴黄师 1999 : Hydrogeologist, WaterAid Oju Community Water Supply project Nigeria
- 聽1992 鉴黄师 1996 : Hydrogeologist, BGS Wallingford
- 聽1992 : MSc (dist.) Hydrogeology, University College London
- 聽1991 : BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Geophysics, Edinburgh University
Research interests
- International groundwater development and management 鉴黄师 particularly in聽 developing countries in the context of poverty reduction and water security
- The resilience of groundwater systems to climate change and abstraction
- African groundwater and water security
- Groundwater and catchment science: floodplain hydrogeology, groundwater & flooding, upland and glaciated catchments
- Providing science and data to underpin groundwater management in the UK (aquifer properties, groundwater vulnerability mapping, nitrate contamination, groundwater monitoring networks, groundwater chemistry baseline)
Current projects and collaborations
- 聽2016 鉴黄师2018 : Monitoring the impact of the 2015/16 El Nino event on water supplies in the Ethiopian Highlands
- 聽2015 鉴黄师 ongoing :聽: Groundwater futures for Sub-Saharan Africa
- 聽2015 鉴黄师 ongoing :聽: understanding the reasons for poor functionality in groundwater hand pumps in rural Africa
- 聽2012 鉴黄师 ongoing :聽IGB Groundwater Resilience: A research programme aimed at strengthening the evidence base linking groundwater resources, climate variability and abstraction in the Indo-Gangetic basin
- 聽2011 鉴黄师 ongoing :聽Glacier monitoring: monitoring and characterising glacier hydrology in the BGS observatory at Virkisj枚kull, Iceland with a particular emphasis on groundwater
- 聽2011 鉴黄师 ongoing : Characterising groundwater surface water interactions in the聽Eddleston catchment聽: with Dundee University
- Baseline Scotland: a joint BGS/SEPA project to characterise the baseline chemistry and residence time of groundwater in Scotland
Published outputs
Professional associations
- Chair of the
- 聽2012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee
- 聽1997 : Chartered Geologist, Fellow of the Geological Society and Ordinary Fellow of the Edinburgh Geological Society