Dr Tim Hess
Reader in Water Management
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: t.hess@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2763
Environmental Science and Technology
Current activities
Dr Tim Hess is the Course Director for Water Management PgCert within the Cranfield Water Science Institute and a Reader in Water Management.
Tim's current research interests are centred on the multi-functional use of floodplains for flood storage, agriculture and biodiversity.
Clients
- Coca Cola Systems
- Department for International Development (DFID)
- Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
- East of England Regional Development Authority
- English Nature
- European Union.
Background
Dr Tim Hess is an agro-hydrologist with a BSc in Geography and an MSc in Land Resource Management. His PhD was on the impact of climatic variability over the period 1961-1990 on the soil water balance of upland soils in the North East Arid Zone of Nigeria.
His research has focused on the measurement and quantification of water balances as applied to wetlands, rainfed- and irrigated agriculture in both temperate and semi-arid environments. This has also been applied to flood risk management and irrigation management. He has a particular interest in evapotranspiration estimation and modelling.
He was an Executive Council member of the UK Irrigation Association for over 10 years and is presently a member of the S.E. Region Committee of the British Hydrological Society. From 1999 to 2003 he was a member of the British Standards Committee CPI/113/1 on Hydrometry (velocity area methods). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
