Prof. Mike Edmunds

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Summary of Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Mike Edmunds: Expertise in groundwater quality, hydrogeochemical processes, trace element studies, isotope hydrology, palaeohydrology, arid and semi-arid zone studies including groundwater recharge assessment, groundwater acidification, salinity issues and mineral and thermal waters.

Full Name	Prof. Wyndham Michael Edmunds
Year of Birth	1941
Nationality	British
Profession	Geochemistry [Hydrogeochemistry] and Hydrogeology
Range of Experience	Prof. Mike Edmunds' expertise lies in groundwater quality, hydrogeochemical processes, trace element studies, isotope hydrology, palaeohydrology, arid and semi-arid zone studies including groundwater recharge assessment, groundwater acidification, salinity issues and mineral and thermal waters. He retired from the British Geological Survey in Wallingford, but retains an Honorary Research Associateship. He has been involved in the supervision of 12 PhD theses in UK and overseas and has evaluated theses in several European countries as well as UK. He teaches on the MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management course at the University of Oxford. He has over 230 scientific publications, including 140 externally reviewed in these fields. Most recently his interests centre on baseline groundwater quality in Europe and water problems in arid and semi-arid regions of the Middle East, the Sahel countries, China and Mexico. He has organised courses on water quality in and elsewhere. He has carried out international consultancy work in the water quality sector for various UN organisations, notably the IAEA, and supported ODA [DfID] and projects funded by the European Commission. He retains the post of Honorary Research Associate in Hydrogeology at the British Geological Survey at Wallingford. As well as maintaining his broad interests in hydrogeochemical research, he retains interests in the relationships between science, society and policy especially in water-scarce arid and semi-arid regions.
Career Summary	1961-2001 British Geological Survey, 1986 IMP [Individual Merit Promotion], Wallingford 1992-2001 Chairman IAGC Working Group on Water-Rock Interaction 1986-date Associate Editor of Applied Geochemistry 1993-date Visiting Professor in Geochemistry, Kingston University 1999-2002 Teaching Masters course units in hydrogeochemistry at Bangor University 2003 Visiting Professor School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University 2003-date Senior Research Associate, School of Geography & Environment, Oxford University
Education and Awards	1963 BSc Liverpool University [Chemistry and Geology] 1968 PhD [Geochemistry, Liverpool University] 1999 Receipt of Whitaker medal, Geological Society of London 2009 OE Meinzer Award of the Geological Society of America 2010 Vernadsky Medal of the International Association of Geochemistry
Professional Affiliation	Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Member of the Geochemical Society Fellow of the Geological Society of America , Member AGU [American Geophysical Union] Member of IAGC [International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry] Member of IAH [International Association of Hydrogeologists]
Recent Work	Three NERC Special Topic Awards in collaboration with UK Universities [Pollutant transport in Porous Media] on 1] hydrogeochemistry of selenium [Royal Holloway New College]; 2] chemical denitrification [Lancaster University] and 3] hydrogeochemistry of the marine-groundwater interface [Bristol University]. Co-principal investigator [ECU Oxford] on NERC [TIGGER] Special Topic SAHEL programme: intercomparison of groundwater/lake sediment records of Holocene environmental/climate change. CEC Brite-Euram Raw Materials programme [1991-1994]. Hydrogeochemical prospecting for gold. Coordination of nine-country EC Framework 4 PALAEAUX– Management of Coastal Aquifers in Europe. INTAS projects in Russia: Mineral Waters of Primorye, protection of hydrothermal phenomena in Kamchatka CEC Avicenne Programme. Recharge characteristics and groundwater quality of the Grand Erg Orientale. BaSeLiNe. Natural Baseline Quality in European Aquifers: 9-country programme under the EC Framework 5.
Countries of Work	Europe, Greece, Honduras, Mexico, Ethiopia Sudan, Cyprus, Senegal, India, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Russia, Nigeria, China
Languages	Fluent in English. Good French and German
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