Dr Tim Hess
Reader in Water Management
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: t.hess@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2763
Natural Resources
Current activities
Dr Tim Hess is a Reader in Water Management. His 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.
Selected publications
- Morris, J., Hess, T.M., Gowing, D.G., Leeds-Harrison, P.B., Bannister, N., Vivash, R.M.N. and Wade, M. (2005) A Framework for Integrating Flood Defence and Biodiversity in Washlands in England. The International Journal of River Basin Management 3:1-11.
- Peacock, C.E. and Hess, T.M., (2004) Estimating evapotranspiration from a reedbed using the Bowen ratio energy balance method. Hydrological Processes 18:247-260.
- Matthews, R., Stephens, W., Hess, T.M., Mason, T. & Graves, A., (2002) Applications of crop/soil simulation models in tropical agricultural systems. Advances in Agronomy 76:31-124.
- Quinton, J.N., Catt, J., Todd, A. and Hess T.M., (2001) The selective removal of phosphorus from soil: Is event size important? Journal of Environmental Quality, 30:538-545.
