Jim Griffiths

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  The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
  199 Taikang East Road
  Ningbo 315100
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Research Summary

My doctoral research work involved spatial modelling of pore-water pressure in shallow landslides (in SE England and SE Spain), with respect to climate and land-use change. I then spent five years as… read more

Recent Publications

• GRIFFITHS, J., 2014. Catchment Yield Estimation. In: S. ESLAMIAN, ed., Handbook of Engineering Hydrology 1. Taylor and Francis. (In Press.)
• GRIFFITHS J., CHAN, F. and TANG, Y-T, 2013. The Development of Water Management within Ningbo, Zhejiang, China In: Proceedings of IAHR World Congress, Chengdu..
• GRIFFITHS, J and REX, A. AND CARRUTH, D., 2010. Transport Corridor Hydrological Baseline Study, Congo SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.
• REX, A. GRIFFITHS, J, CARRUTH, D and AND BELIN, J, 2010. Mine-Site Water Management Pre-Feasibility Study, Congo SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.

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Current Research

My doctoral research work involved spatial modelling of pore-water pressure in shallow landslides (in SE England and SE Spain), with respect to climate and land-use change. I then spent five years as a hydrologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford (formerly the Institute of Hydrology), where my research areas included development of continuous simulation rainfall-runoff models and investigation of surface-groundwater interaction in permeable lowland catchments in the UK.

Most recently I worked for a UK-based mining consultancy for which I conducted hydrological site investigation work in Sierra Leone, Congo Republic, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Turkey, Sweden and the UK. I also contributed to Feasibility and Pre-Feasibility Studies, Environmental Impact Assessments, Competent Person Reports, and Due Diligence Reviews for at least 30 different mine developments in Northern Europe, Central Asia, Africa, Russia South America and India.

Past Research

The folowing is a list of the research areas that I have worked on in the past:

• Impacts of Climate and Land-use change on Shallow Landslide Hydrology (with specific reference to SE England and SE Spain).
• Modelling the spatial and temporal dynamics of river flows within the UK through generalisation of rainfall-runoff modelling scheme, using spatially varying hydrological response units.
• Characterisation of hyporheic zone pollutant attenuation-capacity in rivers within England and Wales.
• Assessment of surface-groundwater interaction in lowland Chalk catchments using hydro-geophysical characterisation of the riparian zone.
• Development of solute transport models for simulation of in-stream dissolved CO2.
• Surface-groundwater interaction in Chalk wetlands.
• Storm-water modelling using of FEH, HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS.
• Environmental baseline monitoring for Environmental Impact Assessment.
• Mine surface-water management plans.
• Water resource optimisation.

Future Research

I am currently working in the following areas and welcome enquires for collaboration and supervision of related PhD research:

• Catchment-scale hydrological modelling of Fenghua and YuYao rivers in Ningbo, using GIS.
• Assessing impact of climate and land-use change on flood frequency and land instability in Eastern China.
• Development of reliable monitoring and modelling proceedures for surface mine-water management.
• Development of water resource scenario and optimisation models (with reference to climate and land-use change).

• GRIFFITHS, J., 2014. Catchment Yield Estimation. In: S. ESLAMIAN, ed., Handbook of Engineering Hydrology 1. Taylor and Francis. (In Press.)
• GRIFFITHS J., CHAN, F. and TANG, Y-T, 2013. The Development of Water Management within Ningbo, Zhejiang, China In: Proceedings of IAHR World Congress, Chengdu..
• GRIFFITHS, J and REX, A. AND CARRUTH, D., 2010. Transport Corridor Hydrological Baseline Study, Congo SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.
• REX, A. GRIFFITHS, J, CARRUTH, D and AND BELIN, J, 2010. Mine-Site Water Management Pre-Feasibility Study, Congo SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.
• GRIFFITHS, J. WARRENDER, R. AND BLAND, 2010. Environmental Baseline Study (Soil), Congo SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.
• GRIFFITHS, J., 2010. reliminary Hydrological Assessment of Mine Site and Transport Corridor, Sierra Leone SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd.
• GRIFFITHS, J., 2009. Handling Uncertainty in Water Resource Optimisation In: International Mine Water Conference, Pretoria, S.Africa.
• GRIFFITHS, J, NUTTER, J, BINLEY, CROOK, N and YOUNG, A. AND PATES, J., 2007. Variability of dissolved CO2 in the Pang and Lambourn Chalk rivers Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11(2), 328-339
• GRIFFITHS, J and YOUNG, A.R. AND KELLER, V.K., 2006. Time Series Indicators of Operational Utility Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• GRIFFITHS, J and YOUNG, A.R. AND KELLER, V.K, 2006. Guidance for prediction method selection based on minimisation of uncertainty Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• GRIFFITHS, J, BINLEY, A, CROOK, N, NUTTER, J and YOUNG, A. AND FLETCHER, S., 2006. Streamflow generation in the Pang and Lambourn catchments, Berkshire, UK Journal of Hydrology. 330, 71-83
• GRIFFITHS, J, GOODWIN, T, YOUNG, A.R and OLD, G. AND BOOKER, D., 2006. Production of a Compendium of Hyporheic Zones Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• YOUNG, A.R and GRIFFITHS, J. AND KELLER, V.K., 2005. Model Scheme for Routing Effective Precipitation to Steam Flows Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• GRIFFITHS, J and YOUNG, A. AND KELLER, V, 2005. Reconciliation of data and model error in predicting ungauged runoff in the UK – a hydrological response unit approach In: Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly, Foz do Iguau, Brazil. (In Press.)
• COLLISON, A. AND GRIFFITHS, J., 2004. Modelling Slope Instability. In: J. WAINWRIGHT AND M. MULLIGAN, ed., Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity Wiley.
• GRIFFITHS, J and YOUNG, A.R. AND KELLER, V.K., 2004. Model Scheme for Representing Actual Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• GRIFFITHS, J. AND YOUNG, A.R., 2004. Model Scheme for Representing Interception and Evapotranspiration Processes Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
• COLLISON, A, WADE, S and GRIFFITHS, J. AND DEHN, M., 2000. Modelling the impact of predicted climate change on landslide frequency and magnitude in SE England Engineering Geology. 55(3), 205-218
• COLLISON, A and GRIFFITHS, J. AND WADE, S., 1998. New Technologies for Landslide Hazard Assessment and Management in Europe CEC Environment Programme.