School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

I am Director of Research. I am also Director of water@leeds.

My main interests involve the study of hillslope hydrology, wetland environments and catchment management. Current work focuses on upland management, peatland hydrology and carbon cycling, water colour, land drainage, soil piping, climate change and flooding. I currently have £6 million of active grants on which I am a named investigator. My personal components to these live projects are worth c. £800,000.

I am a Chartered Geographer, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Trustee of the British Society for Geomorphology.

CURRENT PROJECTS

I am currently actively involved with ten funded research grants with funding souces including EU, NERC, Royal Society, RELU, DEFRA, English Nature, Yorkshire Water, and other consultancies, agencies and environment organisations.

The Role of Pipes in Carbon Export from Peatlands

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Sustainable Uplands – Communicating and Learning to Live with Change

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RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• water@leeds
• River Basin Processes and Management
• Earth and Biosphere Institute

PUBLICATIONS

• Holden J, Gell KF (2009) Morphological characterization of solute flow in a brown earth grassland soil with cranefly larvae burrows (leatherjackets). Geoderma, 152, 181-186.
• Armstrong A, Holden J, et al.,. (2009) Drain blocking techniques on blanket peat: a framework for best practice. J. Environmental Management, 90, 3512-2519.
• Reed MS, Arblaster K, Bullock C, Burton R, Davies AL, Holden J et al., (2009) Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures, 41, 619-630.
• Holden J et al. (2009) A critical review of hydrological data collection schemes for assessing preservation risk for urban waterlogged archaeology: a case study from the City of York, UK. J. Environmental Management, 90, 3197-3204.
• Ramchunder S, Brown LE, Holden J. (2009) Environmental effects of drainage, drain-blocking and prescribed vegetation burning in UK upland peatlands. Progress in Physical Geography, 33, 49-79.

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