Dr David Robinson

 

Dr David Robinson

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Environment Centre Wales
Deiniol Road
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 2UW
T: +44 (0)1248 374500
F: +44 (0)1248 362133
E-mail: Dr David Robinson
 

Current work

I am a soil scientist with a research focus on soil moisture and soil properties and processes within ecosystems, their spatial and temporal description, and their linkage to hydrology and ecology. I use sensor technology and geophysics to explore and quantify soil properties from the grain scale to watershed scale.

My main areas of research are:

  • Environmental soil physics
  • Soil geophysical imaging
  • Ecohydrology
  • Environmental sensor technology development
  • Agricultural and environmental soil and water management

Skills

  • Soil water content sensing
  • Electromagentic induction soil imaging at field and small watershed scales
  • Pore scale modelling of soil dielectric properties and electrical conductivity
  • Geostatistics for interpreting geophysical and soils data

 

Brief CV

2009 to present Research Scientist, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
2005 to present Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University
2008 - 2009   Snr Lecturer, Dept. Food Production, University of the West Indies
2005 - 2008 Staff Scientist, Dept. of Geophysics, Stanford University
2003 - 2005 Associate Research Professor, Dept. Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University
2001 - 2003 Research Soil Scientist, Soil Chemistry and Assessment Unit, USDA Salinity Laboratory
1998 - 2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Soil Water and Environmental Science, Volcani Center ARO
1995 - 1999 PhD Student, Institute of Hydrology / University of Ulster
   

 

Selected publications

See also the NERC Open Research Archive.

Robinson, D.A., I. Lebron, R.J. Ryel, and S.B.Jones. 2010. Soil Water Repellency, a Method of Soil Moisture Sequestration in Pinyon – Juniper Woodland. Soil Sci. Soc. Am J. (Accepted).

Robinson, D.A., I. Lebron, and J.I. Querejeta. 2010. Determining Soil-Tree-Grass Relationships in a California Oak Savanna Using Eco-Geophysics. Vadose Zone Journal. 9 (1): 1-8.

Doyle, T.E., A.T. Tew, R. Jain, D.A. Robinson. 2009. Effects of aggregation on the permittivity of random media containing monodisperse spheres. Journal of Applied Physics 106: 114104.

Robinson, D.A., L. Lebron, H. Vereecken. 2009. On the definition of the natural capital of soils: A framework for description, evaluation and monitoring. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 73: 1904-1911.

Robinson, D.A., Jones S.B., Blonquist J.M. Jr., Heinse R., Lebron I., and Doyle T.E., 2009. The dielectric response of the tropical Hawaiian Mars soil simulant JSC Mars-1. Soil Sci. Soc. Am J.,  73: 1113–1118.

Robinson, D.A., I. Lebron, B. Kocar, K. Phan, M. Sampson, N. Crook, and S. Fendorf, 2009. Time-lapse geophysical imaging of soil moisture dynamics in tropical deltaic soils: An aid to interpreting hydrological and geochemical processes, Water Resour. Res., 45, W00D32, doi:10.1029/2008WR006984.

Abdu H., Robinson, D.A., Seyfried, M. and Jones, S.B., 2009. Geophysical  Imaging of Watershed Subsurface Patterns and Prediction of Soil Texture and Water Holding Capacity. Water Resour. Res., 44, W00D18, doi:10.1029/2008WR007043.

Crook, N., A. Binley, R. Knight, D.A. Robinson, J. Zarnetske, and R. Haggerty, 2008. Electrical Resistivity Imaging of the Architecture of Sub-Stream Sediments. Water Resour. Res., 44, W00D13, doi:10.1029/2008WR006968.

Lebron, I., Herrero J., Robinson D.A., 2009. Determination of Gypsum Content in Soils Exploiting the Gypsum-Bassanite Phase Change. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 73: 403-411.

Robinson, D.A., Abdu H., Jones S.B., Seyfried M. Lebron I., and Knight R., 2008. Eco-Geophysical Imaging of Watershed-Scale Soil Patterns Links with Plant Community Spatial Patterns. Vadose Zone Journal, 7 (4): 1132-1138.

 

More information

Please go to my personal webpage at:http://sites.google.com/site/davidrobinsonsoils/