Professor David N. Lerner
Catchment science, urban groundwater, natural attenuation of organic pollutants, DNAPLs in groundwater, multilevel sampling technologies.
Professor of Environmental Engineering
Head of Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group
Address:
GPRG
Kroto Research Institute
North Campus, University of Sheffield
Broad Lane
Sheffield
S3 7HQ
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0)114 22 25743
Fax: +44 (0)114 222 5701
Room: G03
email : d.n.lerner@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
- MA, Engineering Sciences, University of Cambridge.
- MSc, Engineering Hydrology, Imperial College, London.
- PhD, School of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham.
- DSc, 'Urban and industrial impacts on groundwater', University of Birmingham.
David has a mixed career background, including time with Anglian Water Authority and international consultants Black and Veatch (as they are now called). He became an academic in 1984. Early work experience included water resources modelling, irrigation hydrology, flood hydrology and erosion control, as well as his specialism of groundwater. David has worked in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Peru and Algeria as well as throughout the UK.
Current research interests
- Catchment Science - understanding and predicting how landuse influences ecological quality of surface waters, under the influence of hydrology and reactive transport processes.
- Urban groundwater - including recharge, pollutant loads, risk analysis, groundwater valuation and protection.
- Natural attenuation of organic pollution - especially at field research sites. I have an particular interest in performance models for assessing the potential for NA, and the issues of mixing into reactive plumes.
- DNAPL movement - the risks to groundwater and downstream users arising from residuals.
- Multilevel sampling technologies - including the development of the Multiport sock sampler, and a bundled piezometer design for sandstone aquifers.
Publications
A full list of David's publications (1986-2004) is available to download - please use the link on the right of this page.
If you wish to obtain a copy of one of David's books, follow the directions below:
- Urban Groundwater pollution (David N Lerner), 2003, 299 pages, please follow the link on the right to go to Balkema's catalogue.
- Groundwater recharge - A guide to understanding and estimating natural recharge (David N Lerner, Arie S.Issar & Ian Simmers, 1990, 346 pp.), please contact the publishers Balkema using the link to the right.
- An illustrated handbook of DNAPL fate and transport in the subsurface, follow the link to the right to download (PDF, 790kb).
Professional affiliations
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, elected 2001.
- Chartered Civil Engineer, Chartered Geologist, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
- Director of the SUBRI:IM brownfields research consortium
- Founding Chair of the Commission on Groundwater in Urban Areas for the International Association of Hydrogeologists.
- Editorial Board of Hydrological Processes.
- Member of the CL:AIRE Technology and Research Group (TRG).
- Editor-in-chief, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (1996-2004).
- Chairman, GQ2001: International conference on natural and enhanced attenuation of groundwater pollution.
- David provides occasional consultancy services to industry and government agencies, ranging from peer review to interpretations of complex sites and data sets.