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Overview

Daren Gooddy is affiliated with the British Geological Survey in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing significantly to these fields through numerous publications.

The scientist's work covers a variety of subfields including:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Oceanography

Key research topics addressed in Gooddy's publications include:

  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Groundwater flow and contamination studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Groundwater and Watershed Analysis

Gooddy has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrogeology Journal
  • Water Research
  • Environmental Pollution

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Daren Gooddy include:

  • Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater under a rapidly developing city (Patna) in northern India dominated by high concentrations of lifestyle chemicals, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • The need to integrate legacy nitrogen storage dynamics and time lags into policy and practice, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Seasonal variability of sediment controls of nitrogen cycling in an agricultural stream, 2020, Biogeochemistry

Frequent co-authors of Gooddy's include:

  • Laura A. Richards
  • David A. Polya
  • Dan Lapworth
  • Stefan Krause
  • George J.L. Wilson

Best Publications

  • Impacts of climate change on the fate and behaviour of pesticides in surface and groundwater : a UK perspective

    J.P. Bloomfield;R.J. Williams;D.C. Gooddy;J.N. Cape

  • Emerging contaminants in urban groundwater sources in Africa

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

  • Global patterns of nitrate storage in the vadose zone.

    Matthew J Ascott;Daren C Gooddy;L Wang;Marianne E Stuart

  • Metal ion binding by natural organic matter: from the model to the field

    M.F. Benedetti;W.H. van Riemsdijk;L.K. Koopal;David Kinniburgh

  • 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

  • A review of the impact of climate change on future nitrate concentrations in groundwater of the UK

    M.E. Stuart;D.C. Gooddy;J.P. Bloomfield;A.T. Williams

  • Field‐based partition coefficients for trace elements in soil solutions

    D.C. Gooddy;P. Shand;D.G. Kinniburgh;W.H. Van Riemsdijk

  • 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

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

    D.J. Lapworth;D.C. Gooddy

  • A field study to assess the degradation and transport of diuron and its metabolites in a calcareous soil.

    Daren C. Gooddy;P.John Chilton;Ian Harrison

  • 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

  • The practicalities of using CFCs and SF6 for groundwater dating and tracing

    W.G. Darling;D.C. Gooddy;A.M. MacDonald;B.L. Morris

  • 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

  • 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

  • Global patterns of nitrate isotope composition in rivers and adjacent aquifers reveal reactive nitrogen cascading

    Ioannis Matiatos;Leonard I. Wassenaar;Lucilena R. Monteiro;Jason J. Venkiteswaran

  • 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

  • The nitrate time bomb : a numerical way to investigate nitrate storage and lag time in the unsaturated zone

    L. Wang;A. S. Butcher;M. E. Stuart;D. C. Gooddy

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

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

  • Prediction of the arrival of peak nitrate concentrations at the water table at the regional scale in Great Britain

    L. Wang;M. E. Stuart;J. P. Bloomfield;A. S. Butcher

  • Penetration of herbicides to groundwater in an unconfined chalk aquifer following normal soil applications.

    Andrew C Johnson;Tim J Besien;C.Lal Bhardwaj;Andy Dixon

  • Online fluorescence spectroscopy for the real-time evaluation of the microbial quality of drinking water

    J.P.R. Sorensen;A. Vivanco;M.J. Ascott;D.C. Gooddy

  • Groundwater evolution beneath Hat Yai, a rapidly developing city in Thailand

    A. Lawrence;Daren Gooddy;P. Kanatharana;W. Meesilp

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Lapworth
Dan Lapworth British Geological Survey
Alan MacDonald
Alan MacDonald British Geological Survey
W.G. Darling
W.G. Darling British Geological Survey
Andrew Binley
Andrew Binley Lancaster University
John P. Bloomfield
John P. Bloomfield British Geological Survey
Stefan Krause
Stefan Krause University of Birmingham
Tim H.E. Heaton
Tim H.E. Heaton British Geological Survey
Penny J Johnes
Penny J Johnes University of Bristol
Jonathan E. Chambers
Jonathan E. Chambers British Geological Survey
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham

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