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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Tim Burt is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses various subfields including Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work mainly addresses topics such as Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, and Water Quality and Pollution Assessment.

Prominent recent papers by Tim Burt include:

  • Is water quality in British rivers "better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution"? (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • River water temperature demonstrates resistance to long-term air temperature change (2022, Hydrological Processes)
  • Local climate impacts from ongoing restoration of a peatland (2022, Hydrological Processes)
  • Monitoring soil erosion on agricultural land: results and implications for the Rother valley, West Sussex, UK (2020, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
  • The probability of breaching water quality standards - A probabilistic model of river water nitrate concentrations (2020, Journal of Hydrology)

Tim Burt has published books with Cambridge University Press, including the 2020 publication Curious about Nature.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Fred Worrall
  • Nicholas Howden
  • D. B. A. Thompson
  • Helen P. Jarvie
  • Tim Kohler

Major venues where Tim Burt's research has appeared are:

  • Hydrological Processes
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Among the recognitions received, Tim Burt was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The role of topography in controlling throughflow generation

    M. G. Anderson;T. P. Burt

  • Topographic controls of soil moisture distributions

    T. P. Burt;D. P. Butcher

  • Long-term accumulation and transport of anthropogenic phosphorus in three river basins

    Stephen M. Powers;Thomas W. Bruulsema;Tim Burt;Neng long Chan

  • Hydraulic conductivity in frozen soils

    T. P. Burt;P. J. Williams

  • Environmental change in moorland landscapes.

    J. Holden;L. Shotbolt;A. Bonn;T. P. Burt

  • Nitrogen Removal by Riparian Buffers along a European Climatic Gradient: Patterns and Factors of Variation

    Sergi Sabater;Andrea Butturini;Jean-Christophe Clement;Tim Burt

  • Water table elevation controls on soil nitrogen cycling in riparian wetlands along a European climatic gradient

    Mariet Hefting;Jean-Christophe Clement;David Dowrick;Anne-Claude Cosandey

  • Runoff generation and water table fluctuations in blanket peat: evidence from UK data spanning the dry summer of 1995

    M.G. Evans;T.P. Burt;J. Holden;J.K. Adamson

  • Trends in Dissolved Organic Carbon in UK Rivers and Lakes

    Fred Worrall;Ron Harriman;Chris D. Evans;Carol D. Watts

  • Nitrate:processes, patterns and management

    T. P. Burt;A. L. Heathwaite;Stephen T. Trudgill

  • Accelerated soil erosion around a Mexican highland lake caused by prehispanic agriculture

    Sarah L. O'Hara;F. Alayne Street-Perrott;Timothy P. Burt

  • Impact of land drainage on peatland hydrology

    J. Holden;M. G. Evans;T. P. Burt;M. Horton

  • Participatory scenario development for environmental management: a methodological framework illustrated with experience from the UK uplands

    M.S. Reed;J. Kenter;A. Bonn;A. Bonn;K. Broad

  • Linking hydrology and biogeochemistry in complex landscapes

    T. P. Burt;G. Pinay

  • Denitrification in riparian buffer zones : the role of floodplain hydrology

    T. P. Burt;L. S. Matchett;K. W. T. Goulding;C. P. Webster

  • Cover Crops for Clean Water

    Tim Burt;W. L. Hargrove

  • Particle size characteristics of suspended sediment in hillslope runoff and stream flow

    Michael C. Slattery;Timothy P. Burt

  • Carbon budget for a British upland peat catchment

    Fred Worrall;Mark Reed;Jeff Warburton;Tim Burt

  • Runoff production in blanket peat covered catchments

    Joseph Holden;Tim P. Burt

  • Buffer zones: their processes and potential in water protection

    N. E. Haycock;T. P. Burt;K. W. T. Goulding

  • Process studies in hillslope hydrology.

    M. G. Anderson;T. P. Burt

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Worrall
Fred Worrall Durham University
Nicholas J K Howden
Nicholas J K Howden University of Bristol
Joseph Holden
Joseph Holden University of Leeds
Ann Louise Heathwaite
Ann Louise Heathwaite Lancaster University
Helen P. Jarvie
Helen P. Jarvie University of Waterloo
Penny J Johnes
Penny J Johnes University of Bristol
Gilles Pinay
Gilles Pinay Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Malcolm G. Anderson
Malcolm G. Anderson University of Bristol
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
John Boardman
John Boardman University of Oxford

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