Dr Mark Robinson

Catchment dynamics and water budgets

Background

I graduated from Leeds University with a degree in Geography and went on to take an MSc in Engineering Hydrology at the University of Newcastle. Following this I worked on a three-year research project at Leeds University into land erosion and sediment supply before joining the then Institute of Hydrology. Initially I worked on developments to the FSR methodology, before concentrating on land use and management impacts on river flows and was awarded a PhD from the University of Hull into the impacts of agricultural land management on streamflow. More recently I have taken responsibility for the CEH upland research catchments, including the long-term Plynlimon study.

Current research

Hydrological fluxes and budgets in research catchments.

Selected publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Neal C, Robinson M, Reynolds B, Neal M, Rowland P, Grant S, Norris D, Williams B, Sleep D, Lawlor L, (2010). Hydrology and water quality of the headwaters of the River Severn: stream acidity recovery and interactions with plantation forestry under an improving pollution climate. Science Total Environment 408(21): 5035-5051

Rodgers, M., O’Connor, M., Robinson, M., Muller, M. Poole, R. and L. Xiao (2011). Suspended solid yield from forest harvesting on upland blanket peak. Hydrological Processes 25: 207–216.

Robinson, M. and Cosandey, C. (2011). Water resources depend on vegetation cover and land use. Chap 2.2 In Birot, Y., Gracia, C. and M. Palahi (eds.) Water for Forest and People in the Mediterranean – A challenging balance. European Forest Institute. Finland. pp. 59-63.

Marc, V. and Robinson, M. (2007). The long-term water balance (1972-2004) of upland forestry and grassland at Plynlimon, Mid-Wales. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11: 26-43.

Robinson, M. and Dupeyrat, A. (2005). Effects of commercial forest felling on streamflow regimes at Plynlimon. Hydrological Processes 19:1213-1226.

Van Der Tol, Gash, J., Grant, S., McNeil, D., and Robinson, M. (2003). Average wet canopy evaporation for a Sitka spruce forest derived using the eddy correlation-energy balance technique. J Hydrology 276: 12-19.

Robinson and 15 others. (2003). Studies of the impact of forestry on extreme flows: A European perspective. Forest Ecology and Management 186: 85-97.

Robinson, M. & Rycroft, D.W. (1999). The impact of drainage on streamflow. Chap 23 In: Skaggs R.W. and J. van Schilfgaarde (eds.) Agricultural Drainage. Agronomy Monograph No 38. American Society of Agronomy / Crop science Society of America / Soil Science Society of America. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. pp 767-800. Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99-073092.

Ward, R.C. and Robinson, M. (2000). Principles of Hydrology. 4th edition. McGraw-Hill, London and New York. ISBN 0 07 709502 2,  450pp