Dan Lapworth
Hydrogeochemist
Location: Wallingford
Tel: 01491 69 2327
E-mail Dan Lapworth
Professional association
- 2012 : International Association of Hydrogeologist
- 2011 : Chartered Chemist, RSC
- 2003 : MRSC, Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2000 : Member of RSC Water Science Forum
Current projects and collaboration
- Aquifer responsivness to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (DFID)
- Characterising groundwater colloid-contaminant interactions in floodplain environments
- Emerging contaminants in groundwater, collaboration with BRGM
- Groundwater-surface water interaction in a lowland permeable catchment (with CEH Wallingford)
- Impact of abstaction on groundwater resources and water quality in the Indo-Gangetic Basin
- Source determination of phosphate in catchments (with the NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory)
- Tracing dissolved organic matter in the hyporheic zone
Skills
- Data analysis and visualisation using R
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Regional geochemical studies
- Training: hydrogeochemistry and geochemical mapping
Research interests
- Biogeochemical processes
- Groundwater nanoparticles
- Groundwater–surface water exchange processes
- Impact of emerging contaminants on groundwater quality
- International water resources - recharge, water quality, vulnerability and impact of climate variability
- Organic matter fluorescence in the environment
- Regional geochemistry: UK, Madagascar, Nigeria
Published outputs
Key papers
LAPWORTH D J, BARAN N, STUART M E and WARD R S. 2012. Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence, Environmental Pollution, 163, 287-303.
LAPWORTH D J, MACDONALD A M TIJANI M N, DARLING W G, GOODDY D C, BONSOR H C, ARAGUAS-ARAGUAS L J. 2012. Residence times of shallow groundwater in West Africa: implications for hydrogeology and resilience to future changes in climate. Hydrogeology Journal, (DOI) 10.1007/s10040-012-0925-4.
LARK M R and LAPWORTH D J. 2012. Quality measures for soil surveys by lognormal kriging. Geoderma, 173-174, 231-240.
LAPWORTH D J, GOODY D C, ALLEN D and OLD G H. 2009. Understanding groundwater, surface water and hyporheic zone biogeochemical processes in a Chalk catchment using fluorescence properties of dissolved and colloidal organic matter. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114,G00F02, doi:10.1029/2009JG000921.
TIPPING E, CORBISHLEY H T, KOPRIVNJAK J-F, LAPWORTH D J, MILLER M P, VINCENT C D and HAMILTON-TAYLOR J. 2009. Quantification of natural DOM from UV absorption at two wavelengths, Environmental Chemistry, 6, 472-476.
LAPWORTH D J, GOODDY D G, BUTCHER A and MORRIS B, 2008. Tracing groundwater flow and sources of organic carbon in sandstone aquifers using fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM), Applied Geochemistry, 23, 3384-3390.
