WRA

Dr. John Bromley

1948

British

Hydrogeologist

Dr. Bromley began his career in 1969 working as a geologist with the Geological Survey of Malawi before specializing in Hydrogeology through a PhD at the University of Bristol in 1975. He then worked as a consultant hydrogeologist in South Africa with Loxton – Hunting Associates until 1977, working mainly on water resource evaluation projects. Then followed a long period of employment with the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford from 1978 until 2006. During this period Dr. Bromley spent the first 12 years engaged mainly on long term water resource evaluation projects overseas in Somalia, Qatar and Botswana. Experience gathered during this period included geophysical logging and exploration, airborne geophysical interpretation, groundwater monitoring and modelling, project management and report writing.

From 1990 onward the emphasis of work switched from consulting to research. Since this time Dr. Bromley was involved with a number of EU funded projects (EFEDA, EFEDA II, GRAPES, MEDIS, NEWATER), and has been the co-ordinator of another (MERIT). The emphasis of research in these projects has been on water resource management and the development of tools and techniques to deliver integrated and sustainable strategies for water resource development. Dr. Bromley has also led projects carried out in NIGER (funded by NERC) and Zimbabwe (funded by DFID) which concentrated on the problem of groundwater recharge in semi arid regions. He has also led research projects in the UK investigating the hydrogeology of lowland mire peat deposits and the potential impacts of adjacent extraction on long term sustainability of these ecosystems.

In 2007 Dr. Bromley moved to the Water Management section of Oxford University’s Centre for the Environment, where he is continuing his research into water resource management and in particular the application of Bayesian Networks as a participatory tool for integrated water resource management.

2007-date Senior Fellow, Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

1978-2006 Principal Scientist (Hydrogeologist), Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

1975-1978 Consultant Hydrogeologist, South Africa, Loxton Hunting Associates.

1969-1972 Geologist, Geological Survey of Malawi

1969 Geology degree, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

1975 PhD in Hydrogeology, Bristol University, UK. Thesis title 'Hydrogeology of Jurassic Limestone Aquifers in the Southern Cotswolds'

Chartered & Fellow of Geological Society of London, since 1985
Member of Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management, since 1991
Member of British Hydrological Society since 1988
Member of Australian Hydrographers Association since 1995

England, Malawi, South Africa, Qatar, Botswana, Somalia, Niger, Zimbabwe, Spain, Namibia.

Fluent in English