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Alan MacDonald’s Biography

•  2018 : Individual Merit Scientist (IMP3)
•  2012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee
•  2006 : Principal Hydrogeologist ���ճԹ� Edinburgh
•  2001 : PhD, University College London, Community Water Supplies from Mudstones
•  1999 – 2006 : Senior Hydrogeologist ���ճԹ� Edinburgh
•  1996 – 1999 : Hydrogeologist, WaterAid Oju Community Water Supply project Nigeria
•  1992 – 1996 : Hydrogeologist, ���ճԹ� Wallingford
•  1992 : MSc (dist.) Hydrogeology, University College London
•  1991 : BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Geophysics, Edinburgh University

Research interests

• International groundwater development and management — particularly in  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

•  2016 –2018 : Monitoring the impact of the 2015/16 El Nino event on water supplies in the Ethiopian Highlands
•  2015 – ongoing : : Groundwater futures for Sub-Saharan Africa
•  2015 – ongoing : : understanding the reasons for poor functionality in groundwater hand pumps in rural Africa
•  2012 – ongoing : IGB Groundwater Resilience: A research programme aimed at strengthening the evidence base linking groundwater resources, climate variability and abstraction in the Indo-Gangetic basin
•  2011 – ongoing : Glacier monitoring: monitoring and characterising glacier hydrology in the ���ճԹ� observatory at Virkisjökull, Iceland with a particular emphasis on groundwater
•  2011 – ongoing : Characterising groundwater surface water interactions in the Eddleston catchment : with Dundee University
• Baseline Scotland: a joint ���ճԹ�/SEPA project to characterise the baseline chemistry and residence time of groundwater in Scotland

Published outputs

Professional associations

• Chair of the
•  2012 : Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee
•  1997 : Chartered Geologist, Fellow of the Geological Society and Ordinary Fellow of the Edinburgh Geological Society