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Overview

Dan Lapworth is a researcher affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research covers multiple main topics, including Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, Water Treatment and Disinfection, Groundwater and Watershed Analysis, Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, and Child Nutrition and Water Access.

Dan Lapworth has contributed to a range of scientific publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Hydrology, Hydrogeology Journal, Environmental Pollution, and Resources.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Groundwater quality: Global threats, opportunities and realising the potential of groundwater (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Emerging organic contaminants in karst groundwater: A global level assessment (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Emerging organic compounds in European groundwater (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Landscape controls on riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from Great Britain (2021, Biogeochemistry)

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Alan MacDonald, Daren C. Gooddy, James Sorensen, Michael Bowes, and Katherine Pond.

Best Publications

  • Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence

    Dan Lapworth;N. Baran;Marianne E. Stuart;Robert S. Ward

  • Review of risk from potential emerging contaminants in UK groundwater.

    Marianne E. Stuart;Dan Lapworth;Emily J. Crane;Alwyn Hart

  • Groundwater quality and depletion in the Indo-Gangetic Basin mapped from in situ observations

    A. M. MacDonald;H. C. Bonsor;K. M. Ahmed;W. G. Burgess

  • Emerging contaminants in urban groundwater sources in Africa

    J.P.R. Sorensen;D.J. Lapworth;D.C.W. Nkhuwa;M.E. Stuart

  • Urban groundwater quality in sub-Saharan Africa: current status and implications for water security and public health

    D. J. Lapworth;D. C. W. Nkhuwa;J. Okotto-Okotto;S. Pedley

  • Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization

    Liza K McDonough;Isaac R Santos;Isaac R Santos;Martin S Andersen;Denis M O'Carroll

  • Groundwater quality in the alluvial aquifer system of northwest India: New evidence of the extent of anthropogenic and geogenic contamination.

    D.J. Lapworth;G. Krishan;A.M. MacDonald;M.S. Rao

  • Hydrogeological typologies of the Indo-Gangetic basin alluvial aquifer, South Asia.

    H. C. Bonsor;A. M. MacDonald;K. M. Ahmed;W. G. Burgess

  • Using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) to characterise groundwater movement and residence time in a lowland Chalk catchment

    Daren Gooddy;George Darling;Corinna Abesser;Daniel Joseph Lapworth

  • Groundwater quality: Global threats, opportunities and Realising the potential of groundwater.

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  • Source and persistence of pesticides in a semi-confined chalk aquifer of southeast England.

    D.J. Lapworth;D.C. Gooddy

  • Deep urban groundwater vulnerability in India revealed through the use of emerging organic contaminants and residence time tracers.

    D.J. Lapworth;P. Das;A. Shaw;A. Mukherjee

  • In-situ tryptophan-like fluorescence: A real-time indicator of faecal contamination in drinking water supplies.

    J.P.R. Sorensen;D.J. Lapworth;B.P. Marchant;D.C.W. Nkhuwa

  • Residence times of shallow groundwater in West Africa: implications for hydrogeology and resilience to future changes in climate

    D. J. Lapworth;A. M. MacDonald;M. N. Tijani;W. G. Darling

  • Terrestrial dissolved organic matter distribution in the North Sea

    Stuart C. Painter;Dan J. Lapworth;E. Malcolm S. Woodward;Silke Kroeger

  • Tracing groundwater flow and sources of organic carbon in sandstone aquifers using fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM)

    Daniel Joseph Lapworth;Daren Gooddy;Andrew Butcher;Brian Morris

  • Groundwater recharge and age-depth profiles of intensively exploited groundwater resources in northwest India

    D. J. Lapworth;A. M. MacDonald;G. Krishan;M. S. Rao

  • Emerging organic contaminants in karst groundwater: A global level assessment

    Jasmina Lukač Reberski;Josip Terzić;Louise D Maurice;Dan J Lapworth

  • Tracking changes in the occurrence and source of pharmaceuticals within the River Thames, UK; from source to sea

    Debbie White;Dan J. Lapworth;Wayne Civil;Peter Williams

  • A multi-stable isotope framework to understand eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems

    Daren C. Gooddy;Dan J. Lapworth;Sarah A. Bennett;Tim H. E. Heaton

  • Persistent and emerging micro-organic contaminants in Chalk groundwater of England and France.

    D.J. Lapworth;N. Baran;M.E. Stuart;K. Manamsa

  • In situ tryptophan-like fluorometers: assessing turbidity and temperature effects for freshwater applications

    K. Khamis;James P.R. Sorensen;C. Bradley;D.M. Hannah

Frequent Co-Authors

Daren Gooddy
Daren Gooddy British Geological Survey
Alan MacDonald
Alan MacDonald British Geological Survey
Richard G. Taylor
Richard G. Taylor University College London
Daniel S. Read
Daniel S. Read UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Abhijit Mukherjee
Abhijit Mukherjee Curtin University
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Richard Sanders
Richard Sanders National Oceanography Centre
Mohammad Shamsudduha
Mohammad Shamsudduha University College London
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Tim H.E. Heaton
Tim H.E. Heaton British Geological Survey

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