Professor Andrew Wade is a hydrologist specialising in water pollution at ecosystem, catchment and continental scales. His current research focuses on finding solutions to water resource and water pollution problems in mountain regions (Andes, Tien Shan) where glacial melt is an issue, and in UK, European and world-wide river-systems where eutrophication is the main problem.
Andrew has led and co-led major projects to help find solutions to improve water quality set in the context of sustainable production and broader ecosystem services. A recent example includes the NERC Macronutrients project, Turf2Surf (2013-18) which focused on an integrated assessment of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in relation to carbon sequestration, water quality, food production and biodiversity (with B Emmett, CEH and C Jago, Bangor) and co-development of the SimplyP model with Leah Jackson-Blake and James Sample, a new catchment-scale, parsimonious phosphorus model.