Cranfield University

Dr Jenny Mant

Project’s Adviser
Location: Building 53, Cranfield campus
E: j.m.mant@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2979
Environmental Science and Technology

Current activities

• advising on a range of small to medium scale river restoration projects, from scoping studies to strategic planning
• co-opted session chair for the 2008 ECRR conference in Venice and workshop coordinator
• lecturing on Masters programmes, supervision of MSc academic thesis
• river and sediment and habitats and the impact of maintenance operations and capital works research and development project – advice on maintenance issues with the context of best practice
• flood risk management research consortium project (part 8) work related to sediment and habitats in rivers
• providing advice to the various projects (e.g. EA funded Managing hydromoprhological pressures in river project and London wide river restoration strategy).  

Clients

• Defra
• Environment Agency
• Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
• Rivers Agency Northern Ireland
• Natural England
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• Environment and Heritage Service
• Councils
• Greater London Authority
• Rivers Trusts
• private landowners, developers, research councils
• Utility companies
• Internal Drainage Boards
• British Waterways
• consultancies and contractors.

Background

Dr Jenny Mant graduated in Geography from the University of Portsmouth and then completed a PhD at the same institution where she looked at the impact of vegetation and the response to morphological change in the ephemeral channels of southeast Spain.  Prior to joining the River Restoration Centre in 2002 she was part of the  RACER (River and Coastal Environment Research) group at Portsmouth University and a researcher in the  EU funded MEDALUS (Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use) team.  Her work at the River Restoration Centre now includes managing the technical and research project and providing advice on a range of river restoration and management initiatives. She is a member of the British Geomorphological Research Group and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Selected publications

• Mant, J.M. and Janes, M.D (In press) Constructing restoration schemes.  In: Darby, S and Sear, D (eds) Managing the uncertainty in restoring physical habitat.  John Wiley and Sons Ltd, London.
• Mant, J.M and Janes, M.D. (2006) River and floodplains.  In: Van Andel, J. and Harris, J. (eds)  Restoration Ecology  SER.
• Janes, M., Fisher, K., Mant, J. and deSmith, L. (2005) River Rehabilitation Guidance for Eastern England Rivers, River Restoration Centre, Bedford.
• Hooke, J.M., Brooks, C.J., Duane, W. and Mant, J.M. ( 2005) A simulation model of morphological, vegetation and sediment changes in ephemeral streams ESP&L.
• Janes, M, Mant, J. and De-Smith L (2004) Scoping study for an Environmental River Engineering Design Manual R&D Technical Report WA5-060 Defra/Environment Agency.
• Mant, J. (2004) Bother on the River Rother   The ada gazette Autumn p.22-23.
• Hooke, J.M. and Mant, J.M. (2002)  Morpho-dynamics of ephemeral streams.  In: L.J. Bull and M.J. Kirkby (eds) Dryland Rivers:  Processes and Management in Mediterranean Climates 173- 204.
• Hooke, J.M. and Mant, J.M. (2002)  Floodwater use and management strategies in valleys of south-east Spain.  Land Degradation and Development 13, 165-175.