PROF ANDY BAIRD

CONTACT DETAILS
Room MB17b
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Email: a.j.baird@leeds.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0 in UK) 113 34 36834



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PUBLICATIONS

Papers

  • Waddington, J.M., Ketcheson, S.J., Kellner, E., Strack, M., and Baird, A.J. 2009. Piezometers vent gas from peat soils: Do we need to re-think our approach to pore-water pressure and hydraulic conductivity measurements? Hydrological Processes, published online, doi: 101022/hyp.7244
  • Kettridge, N., Comas, X., Baird, A.J., Slater, L., Strack, M., Thompson, D., Jol, H., and Binley, A. 2008. Ecohydrologically-important subsurface structures in peatlands are revealed by ground-penetrating radar and complex conductivity surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 113, G04030, doi: 10.1029/2008JG000787.
  • Baird, A.J., Eades, P.A., and Surridge, B.W.J. 2008. The hydraulic structure of a raised bog and its implications for ecohydrological modelling of bog development. Ecohydrology 1, 289-298, doi: 10.1002/eco.33.
  • Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J.J., Uhlenbrook, S., McGuire, K.J., Bogaart, P.W., Naef, F., Baird, A.J., Dunn, S.M., and Soulsby, C. 2008. Conceptualizing catchment processes: simply too complex? Hydrological Processes (invited commentary) 22, 1727-1730, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7069.
  • Kettridge, N., and Baird, A.J. 2008. Modelling soil temperatures in northern peatlands. European Journal of Soil Science 59, 327-338, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2007.010000.x.
  • Surridge, B.W.J., Heathwaite, A.L., and Baird, A.J. 2007. The release of phosphorus to porewater and surface water from river riparian sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality 36, 1534-1544, doi: 10.2134/jeq2006.0490.
  • Kettridge, N. and Baird, A.J. 2007. In situ measurements of the thermal properties of a northern peatland: Implications for peatland temperature models. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, F2, F02019, doi:10.1029/2006JF000655.
  • Li, L., Horn, D.P. and Baird, A.J. 2006. Tide-induced dynamics of surface temperature in the intertidal zone of a sandy beach. Journal of Coastal Research 22(6), 1370-1381.
  • Kellner, E., Baird, A.J., Oosterwoud, M., Harrison, K., and Waddington, J.M. 2006. The effect of atmospheric pressure and temperature on methane (CH4) ebullition from near-surface peats. Geophysical Research Letters 33 (18), L18405, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027509.
  • Kettridge, N. and Baird, A.J. 2006. A new approach to measuring the aerodynamic resistance to evaporation within a northern peatland using a modified Bellani plate atmometer. Hydrological Processes 20, 4249-4258, doi: 10.1002/hyp.6594.
  • Belyea, L.R., and Baird, A.J. 2006. Beyond the “limits to peat bog growth”: cross-scale feedback in peatland development. Ecological Monographs 76(3), 299-322.
  • Harris, A., Bryant, R.G., and Baird, A.J. 2006. Mapping the effects of water stress on Sphagnum: preliminary observations using airborne remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment 100(3), 363-378.
  • Harris, A., Bryant, R.G., and Baird, A.J. 2005. Detecting moisture stress in Sphagnum spp. Remote Sensing of Environment 97(3), 371-381.
  • Surridge, B.W.J., Baird, A.J., and Heathwaite, A.L. 2005. Evaluating the quality of hydraulic conductivity estimates from piezometer slug tests in peat. Hydrological Processes 19, 1227-1244, doi: 10.1002/hyp.5653.
  • Baird, A.J., Beckwith, C.W., Waldron, S., and Waddington, J.M. 2004. Ebullition of methane-containing gas bubbles from near-surface Sphagnum peat. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L21505, doi: 10.1029/2004GL021157.
  • Wiggs, G.F.S., Baird, A.J., and Atherton, R.A. 2004. Thresholds of aeolian sand transport: establishing suitable values. Sedimentology 51, 95-108.
  • Wiggs, G.F.S., Atherton, R.A., and Baird, A.J. 2004. The dynamic effects of moisture on the entrainment and transport of sand by wind. Geomorphology 59, 13-30.
  • Baird, A.J., Price, J.S., Roulet, N.T., and Heathwaite, A.L. (editors) 2004. Special Issue: Hydrological Processes 18, 211-401: Wetland Hydrology and Ecohydrology. Includes editorial on 211-212.
  • Baird, A.J., Surridge, B.W.J., and Money, R.P. 2004. An assessment of the piezometer method for measuring the hydraulic conductivity of a Cladium mariscus – Phragmites australis root mat in a Norfolk (UK) fen. Hydrological Processes 18, 275-291, doi: 10.1002/hyp.1375.
  • Verhoeven, J.T.A., and Baird, A.J. (editors) 2003. Special Issue: Wetlands Ecology and Management 11(6), 365-467: Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes in Wetland Ecosystems in Relation to Biodiversity Restoration.
  • Baird, A.J. and Waldron, S. 2003. Shallow horizontal groundwater flow in peatlands is reduced by bacteriogenic gas production. Geophysical Research Letters 30, 2043, doi: 1029/2003GL018233
  • Price, J.S., Heathwaite, A.L., and Baird, A.J. 2003. Hydrological processes in abandoned and restored peatlands: An overview of management approaches. Wetlands Ecology and Management 11, 65-83.
  • Bryant, R.G. and Baird, A.J. 2003. The spectral behaviour of Sphagnum canopies under varying hydrological conditions. Geophysical Research Letters 30, 1134, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016053.
  • Beckwith, C.W., Baird, A.J. and Heathwaite, A.L. 2003. Anisotropy and depth-related heterogeneity of hydraulic conductivity in a bog peat. I: Laboratory measurements. Hydrological Processes 17, 89-101.
  • Beckwith, C.W., Baird, A.J. and Heathwaite, A.L. 2003. Anisotropy and depth-related heterogeneity of hydraulic conductivity in a bog peat. II: Modelling the effects on ground-water flow. Hydrological Processes 17, 103-113.
  • Hanschke, T. and Baird, A.J. 2001. Time-lag errors associated with the use of simple standpipe piezometers in wetland soils. Wetlands 21(3), 412-421.
  • Atherton, R.J., Baird, A.J., and Wiggs, G.F.S. 2001. Inter-tidal dynamics of surface moisture content on a macro-tidal beach. Journal of Coastal Research 17(2), 482-489.
  • Beckwith, C.W. and Baird, A.J. 2001. Effect of biogenic gas bubbles on water flow through poorly decomposed blanket peat. Water Resources Research 37(3), 551-558.
  • Baldock, T.E., Baird, A.J., Horn, D.P., and Mason, T. 2001. Measurements and modelling of swash-induced pressure gradients in the surface layers of a sand beach. Journal of Geophysical Research 106(C2), 2653-2666.
  • Baird, A.J., and Gaffney, S.W. 2000. Solute movement in drained fen peat: a field tracer study in a Somerset (UK) wetland. Hydrological Processes 14, 2489-2503.
  • Baird, A.J., Mason, T., and Horn, D.P. 1998. Validation of a Boussinesq model of beach ground water behaviour. Marine Geology 148, 55-69.
  • Rawlins, B.G., Baird, A.J., Trudgill, S.T., and Hornung, M. 1997. Absence of preferential flow in the percolating waters of a coniferous forest soil. Hydrological Processes 11, 575-585.
  • Baird, A.J. 1997. Field estimation of macropore functioning and surface hydraulic conductivity in a fen peat. Hydrological Processes 11, 287-295.
  • Baird, A.J. and Horn, D.P. 1996. Measuring and modelling ground water behaviour in sandy beaches. Journal of Coastal Research 12, 630-640.
  • Baird, A.J. and Gaffney, S.W. 1996. Comment on ‘Hydrological Model of Peat-Mound Form with Vertically Varying Hydraulic Conductivity’ by Adrian C. Armstrong. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 21, 765-767.
  • Baird, A.J. and Gaffney, S.W. 1995. A partial explanation of the dependency of hydraulic conductivity on positive pore water pressure in peat soils. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 20, 561-566.
  • Baird, A.J. and Gaffney, S.W. 1994. Cylindrical piezometer responses in a humified fen peat. Nordic Hydrology 25, 167-182.

Books

  • Baird, A.J., Belyea, L.R., Comas, X., Reeve, A., and Slater, L. (eds) 2009 in press. Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands, Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C, USA.
  • Baird, A.J. and Wilby, R.L. (editors) 2002. Eco-hydrology: Plants and Water in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments, Routledge, London, 261 pp. Chinese edition published in association with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
  • Baird, A.J. and Wilby, R.L. (editors) 1999. Eco-hydrology: Plants and Water in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments, Routledge, London, 402 pp.

Book Chapters

  • Baird, A.J., Belyea, L., and Morris, P.J. 2009 in press. Upscaling peatland-atmosphere fluxes of carbon gases: small-scale heterogeneity in process rates and the pitfalls of ‘bucket-and-slab’ models. In Baird, A.J., Belyea, L.R., Comas, X., Reeve, A., and Slater, L. (eds) 2009 in press. Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands, Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C, USA.
  • Coulthard, T., Baird, A.J., Ramirez, J., and Waddington, J.M. 2009 in press. Modeling methane dynamics in peat: importance of shallow peats and a novel reduced-complexity approach for modelling ebullition. In Baird, A.J., Belyea, L.R., Comas, X., Reeve, A., and Slater, L. (eds) 2009 in press. Carbon Cycling in Northern Peatlands, Geophysical Monograph Series, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C, USA.
  • Baird, A.J. 2003. Soil and hillslope hydrology. In Wainwright, J. and Mulligan, M. (editors), Environmental Modelling: Finding Simplicity in Complexity, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 93-106.
  • Baird, A.J. 1999. Modelling. In Baird, A.J. and Wilby, R.L. (editors) Eco-hydrology: Plants and Water in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments, Routledge, London, pp. 300-345.
  • Baird, A.J. 1999. Introduction. In Baird, A.J. and Wilby, R.L. (editors) Eco-hydrology: Plants and Water in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments, Routledge, London, pp. 1-10.
  • Baird, A.J. 1997. Continuity in hydrological systems. In Wilby, R.L. (editor) Contemporary Hydrology, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 25-58.
  • Baird, A.J. 1997. Overland flow generation and sediment mobilisation by water. In Thomas, D.S.G. (editor), Arid Zone Geomorphology, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 165-184.
  • Baird, A.J., Beckwith, C.W., and Heathwaite, A.L. 1997. Water movement in blanket mires. In Tallis, J.H., Meade, R., and Hulme, P.D. (editors) Blanket Mire Degradation: Causes, Consequences and Challenges, Macaulay Land-Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, pp. 128-139.
  • Kirkby, M., Baird, A.J., Diamond, S.M., Lockwood, J.G., MacMahon, M.D., Mitchell, P.L., Shao, J., Sheehy, J.E., Thornes, J.B., and Woodward, F.I. 1996. The MEDALUS slope catena model: a physically-based process model for hydrology, ecology and land degradation interactions. In Thornes, J.B. and Brandt, C.J. (editors), Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 303-354.
  • Baird, A.J. 1995. Hydrological investigations of soil water and ground water processes in wetlands. In Hughes, J.M. and Heathwaite, A.L. (editors), Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of British Wetlands, Wiley, Chichester, pp. 111-129.
  • Baird, A.J., Thornes, J.B., and Watts, G.P. 1992. Extending overland flow models to problems of slope evolution and the representation of complex slope surface topographies. In Parsons, A.J. and Abrahams, A.D. (editors), Overland Flow: Hydraulics and Erosion Mechanics, UCL Press, London, pp. 199-223.

Conference Proceedings

  • Surridge, B.W.J., Heathwaite, A.L. and Baird, A.J. 2005. The exchange of phosphorus between riparian wetland sediments, pore water and surface water. In Heathwaite, A.L., Webb, B., Rosenberry, D., Weaver, D., and Hayashi, M. (eds), Dynamics and Biogeochemistry of River Corridors and Wetlands, IAHS Publication, 294: 37-45.
  • Harris, A., Baird, A.J., and Bryant, R. 2003. The spectral properties of Sphagnum canopies under varying hydrological conditions. In Jarvet, A. and Lode, E. (eds) Ecohydrological Processes in Northern Wetlands, Tartu University Press, pp. 53-58.
  • Kettridge, N., and Baird, A.J. 2003. The development of improved models of the thermal behaviour of peat soils. In Jarvet, A. and Lode, E. (eds) Ecohydrological Processes in Northern Wetlands, Tartu University Press, Tartu, pp. 221-226.
  • Li, L., Baird, A.J. and Horn, D.P. 2002. Spring-neap tidal water table fluctuations in a coastal aquifer: beach slope vs seepage face effects. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, World Scientific, New York, pp. 1037-1049.
  • Horn, D.P., Baldock, T.E., Baird, A.J., and Mason, T.E. 1998. Field measurements of swash induced pressure gradients within a sandy beach. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp. 2812-2825.
  • Baird, A.J., Mason, T.E., Horn, D.P., and Baldock, T.E. 1998. Monitoring and modelling ground water behaviour in sandy beaches as a basis for improved models of swash zone sediment transport. In Thornton, E.B. (editor), Coastal Dynamics ‘97, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia, pp. 774-783.
  • Baird, A.J., Mason, T.E., and Horn, D.P. 1996. Mechanisms of beach groundwater and swash interaction. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York, pp. 4120-4133.
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