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Dr Jonathan Bridge FRGS, FHEA

Course Leader, MSc Environmental

Summary

I am an environmental geoscientist, researching the ways in which human activity affects the physical environment and try to find solutions to the ways in which the physical environment affects human activity. I joined the Department of the Natural and Built Environment in January 2017 and I am currently course leader for MSc Environmental Management.

Jonathan Bridge

About

I graduated from University College London with an MSci in Planetary Sciences, before completing an MSc in Environmental Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, and then a PhD in Environmental Engineering at The University of Sheffield.

After my PhD I worked in the Kroto Research Institute as a postdoctoral scientist and early-career research fellow, on projects related to risks to human health from environmental pathogens, weathering of minerals by plant-symbiont fungi, supraglacial weathering and environmental colloids and nanoparticles.

I joined the Centre for Engineering Sustainability at the University of Liverpool in 2012 as a Lecturer in Environmental Engineering, where much of my research was oriented around environmental radioactivity, further work on environmental nanoparticles, and catchment modelling.

Returning to Sheffield in 2017 as a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography here at Sheffield Hallam, I have become increasingly involved in catchment hydrology and natural flood management, conducting field, modelling and citizen science with local partners. I progressed to Reader/Associate Professor in January 2020.

Teaching

Department of the Natural and Built Environment

College of Social Sciences and Arts

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and have taught extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 2012. My main areas of teaching are in water resources and natural hazards and in the supervision of dissertation and thesis research projects. As well as subject-specific knowledge, my goal in teaching is to develop strong applied skills in critical thinking, creative problem-solving and communication of ideas.

Subject Area

Geography, Environment and Planning.

Course taught

MSc Environmental Management

Modules taught

International Water Management

Professional Practice

Research

My primary research expertise, originating in my PhD work, is in the transport and fate of contaminants and colloids in soils and porous media. Through my time at Liverpool (2012-17) this work focused on applications in the nuclear industry and in environmental radioactivity, in collaboration with National Nuclear Laboratories in the UK and with partners in the UK, Japan and Taiwan. Past collaborators in Liverpool include Dr Andrew Boston (Physics), Dr James Cooper and Prof Neil Macdonald (both Environmental Sciences).
 
At Sheffield Hallam, my interests have broadened to encompass field-based hydrology and increasingly hydro-sociology, working with Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust to monitor Natural Flood Management interventions in small catchments on the Eastern Pennines around Sheffield. This has led to a range of exciting new applied and interdisciplinary research avenues, including an AHRC-funded collaboration on art and co-design in landscape decision-making, with Dr Niamh Downing, Prof Harriet Tarlo (SHU) and a network of academics, community and professional partners.
 
I have a track-record of research activity across the environmental geosciences. My early postdoctoral work was in soil- and waterborne pathogens and human health (invited paper in Bulletin of the World Health Organization), numerical and agent-based simulation of soil biogeochemical processes, and colloid transport and fate in porous media (including collaboration with Dr Claire Corkhill, Immobilisation Science Lab, The University of Sheffield). I also have strong interests in catchment-scale water and contaminant dynamics, in particular in semi-arid catchments in the Middle East (Jordan) and in application to supraglacial and pro-glacial environments. I have a longstanding interest in glacier surface processes (collaboration with Dr Tris Irvine-Fynn, Aberystwyth), particularly in the dynamics of sediments, biocolloids and chemical fate and transport in the weathering crust of glaciers.
 
My most recent work has involved collaboration with a team of Syrian academics supported by the Council for At-Risk Academics (Cara), who have collected the first regional baseline soil survey in North-West Syria since before the start of the Civil War in 2011.

 

 

Publications

Journal articles

Alhasan, M., Lakmes, A., Alobaidy, M.G., Alhaeek, S., ASSAF, M., Dawson, L., ... Bridge, J.W. (2023). A baseline survey of potentially toxic elements in the soil of north-west Syria following a decade of conflict. Environmental Science: Advances. http://doi.org/10.1039/d2va00333c

Yuan, Z.-.F., Pu, T.-.Y., Jin, C.-.Y., Feng, W.-.J., Wang, J.-.Y., Gustave, W., ... Chen, Z. (2022). Sustainable removal of soil arsenic by naturally-formed iron oxides on plastic tubes. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 439. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129626

Yuan, Z.F., Gustave, W., Ata-Ul-Karim, S.T., Bridge, J., Sekar, R., Liu, F., & Chen, Z. (2022). Distinct and dynamic distributions of multiple elements and their species in the rice rhizosphere. Plant and Soil, 471, 47-60. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05100-x

Yuan, Z.F., Gustave, W., Sekar, R., Bridge, J., Wang, J.Y., Feng, W.J., ... Chen, Z. (2021). Simultaneous measurement of aqueous redox-sensitive elements and their species across the soil-water interface. Journal of Environmental Sciences (China), 102, 1-10. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jes.2020.09.017

Yuan, Z.-.F., Gustave, W., Boyle, J., Sekar, R., Bridge, J., Ren, Y., ... Chen, Z. (2020). Arsenic behavior across soil-water interfaces in paddy soils: coupling, decoupling and speciation. Chemosphere, 128713. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128713

Babakhani, P., Bridge, J., Phenrat, T., Fagerlund, F., Doong, R.-.A., & Whittle, K.R. (2019). Comparison of a new mass-concentration, chain-reaction model with the population-balance model for early- and late-stage aggregation of shattered graphene oxide nanoparticles. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 582, 123862. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.123862

Yuan, Z.-.F., Gustave, W., Bridge, J., Liang, Y., Sekar, R., Boyle, J., ... Chen, Z. (2019). Tracing the dynamic changes of element profiles by novel soil porewater samplers with ultralow disturbance to soil-water interface. Environmental science & technology. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b05390

Rajasekar, A., Wilkinson, S., Sekar, R., Bridge, J., Medina-Roldan, E., & Moy, C.K.S. (2018). Biomineralisation performance of bacteria isolated from a landfill in China. Canadian Journal of Microbiology (CJM), 64 (12), 945-953. http://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2018-0254

Rajasekar, A., Raju, S., Medina-Roldan, E., Bridge, J., Moy, C.K.S., & Wilkinson, S. (2018). Next-generation sequencing showing potential leachate influence on bacterial communities around a landfill in China. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 64 (8), 537-549. http://doi.org/10.1139/cjm-2017-0543

Babakhani, P., Bridge, J., Phenrat, T., Doong, R.-.A., & Whittle, K. (2018). Aggregation and sedimentation of shattered graphene oxide nanoparticles (SGO) in dynamic environments: a solid-body rotational approach. Environmental Science: Nano, 8 (2018), 1859-1872. http://doi.org/10.1039/C8EN00443A

Babakhani, P., Doong, R.-.A., & Bridge, J. (2018). The significance of early and late stages of coupled aggregation and sedimentation in the fate of nanoparticles: measurement and modelling. Environmental Science & Technology, 52 (15), 8419-8428. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05236

Irvine-Fynn, T.D.L., Porter, P.R., Rowan, A.V., Quincey, D.J., Gibson, M.J., Bridge, J., ... Glasser, N.F. (2017). Supraglacial ponds regulate runoff from Himalayan debris-covered glaciers. Geophysical Research Letters, 44 (23), 11,894-11,904. http://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075398

Babakhani, P., Bridge, J., Doong, R.-.A., & Phenrat, T. (2017). Continuum-based models and concepts for the transport of nanoparticles in saturated porous media: A state-of-the-science review. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 246, 75-104. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2017.06.002

Babakhani, P., Bridge, J., Doong, R.-.A., & Phenrat, T. (2017). Parameterization and prediction of nanoparticle transport in porous media : a reanalysis using artificial neural network. Water Resources Research, 53 (6), 4564-4585. http://doi.org/10.1002/2016wr020358

Pourbakhtiar, A., Poulsen, T.G., Wilkinson, S., & Bridge, J. (2017). Effect of wind turbulence on gas transport in porous media: experimental method and preliminary results. European Journal of Soil Science, 68 (1), 48-56. http://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.12403

Tarawneh, E., Bridge, J., & Macdonald, N. (2016). A pre-calibration approach to select optimum inputs for hydrological models in data-scarce regions. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 20 (10), 4391-4407. http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4391-2016

Schmalenberger, A., Duran, A.L., Bray, A.W., Bridge, J., Bonneville, S., Benning, L.G., ... Banwart, S.A. (2015). Oxalate secretion by ectomycorrhizal Paxillus involutus is mineral-specific and controls calcium weathering from minerals. Scientific Reports, 5, 12187. http://doi.org/10.1038/srep12187

Corkhill, C.L., Bridge, J.W., Hillel, P., Gardner, L.J., Banwart, S.A., & Hyatt, N.C. (2013). Technetium-99m Transport and Immobilisation in Porous Media: Development of a Novel Nuclear Imaging Technique. MRS Proceedings, 1518, 123-129. http://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2013.111

Corkhill, C.L., Bridge, J.W., Chen, X.C., Hillel, P., Thornton, S.F., Romero-Gonzalez, M.E., ... Hyatt, N.C. (2013). Real-time gamma imaging of technetium transport through natural and engineered porous materials for radioactive waste disposal. Environmental science & technology, 47 (23), 13857-13864. http://doi.org/10.1021/es402718j

Irvine-Fynn, T.D.L., Bridge, J.W., & Hodson, A.J. (2011). In situ quantification of supraglacial cryoconite morphodynamics using time-lapse imaging: an example from Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology, 57 (204), 651-657. http://doi.org/10.3189/002214311797409695

Irvine-Fynn, T.D.L., Bridge, J.W., & Hodson, A.J. (2010). Rapid quantification of cryoconite: granule geometry and in situ supraglacial extents, using examples from Svalbard and Greenland. Journal of Glaciology, 56 (196), 297-308. http://doi.org/10.3189/002214310791968421

Bridge, J.W., Oliver, D.M., Chadwick, D., Godfray, H.C.J., Heathwaite, A.L., Kay, D., ... Banwart, S.A. (2010). Engaging with the water sector for public health benefits: waterborne pathogens and diseases in developed countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 88 (11), 873-875. http://doi.org/10.2471/blt.09.072512

Bridge, J.W., Heathwaite, A.L., & Banwart, S.A. (2009). Measurement of colloid mobilization and redeposition during drainage in quartz sand. Environmental science & technology, 43 (15), 5769-5775. http://doi.org/10.1021/es900616j

Bridge, J.W., Banwart, S.A., & Heathwaite, A.L. (2007). High-resolution measurement of pore saturation and colloid removal efficiency in quartz sand using fluorescence imaging. Environmental science & technology, 41 (24), 8288-8294. http://doi.org/10.1021/es071155a

Bridge, J.W., Banwart, S.A., & Heathwaite, A.L. (2006). Noninvasive quantitative measurement of colloid transport in mesoscale porous media using time lapse fluorescence imaging. Environmental science & technology, 40 (19), 5930-5936. http://doi.org/10.1021/es060373l

Conference papers

Bridge, J.W., Bonneville, S., Saccone, L., Schmalenberger, A., Duran, A., Andrews, M., ... Banwart, S.A. (2010). Constraining global-scale weathering models through nano-scale ectomycorrhiza-mineral interactions. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 74 (12), A123.

Bridge, J.W., & Banwart, S.A. (2009). Monitoring cell transport, biofilm evolution and movement of genetic material in porous media: potential of cm-scale fluorescence imaging. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 73 (13), A160.

Baker, K., Bridge, J., Brown, D., Rolfe, S., Scholes, J., Edyvean, R., & Banwart, S. (2009). Mineral-specific attachment of sulphate-reducing bacterial consortia: combined experimental and xDLVO modelling approach. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 73 (13), A76.

Book chapters

Phenrat, T., Babakhani, P., Bridge, J., Doong, R.-.A., & Lowry, G.V. (2019). Mechanistic, Mechanistic-Based Empirical, and Continuum-Based Concepts and Models for the Transport of Polyelectrolyte-Modified Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron (NZVI) in Saturated Porous Media. In Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron Particles for Environmental Restoration. (pp. 235-291). Springer International Publishing: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95340-3_6

Bridge, J., Spence, K., McLuckie, D., & Kandasamy, J. (2019). Urban Stormwater and Flood Management. In Urban Stormwater and Flood Management Enhancing the Liveability of Cities. Springer

Presentations

Irvine-Fynn, T., Bridge, J., Griffiths, H., & Holmes, N. (2021). Immersive fieldwork learning through self-directed exploration of virtual landscape spheres. Presented at: 11th Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase, Online

Posters

Walton, S., Holmes, N., Storrar, R., Bridge, J., Ewertowski, M., Tomczyk, A., & Jones, A. (2022). Upland deglaciation since the Little Ice Age at Skálafellsjökull, southeast Iceland. Presented at: Quaternary Research Association Annual Discussion Meeting, Online, Sheffield

Walton, S., Holmes, N., Storrar, R., & Bridge, J. (2021). Climate and Environmental Change in Southeast Iceland. Presented at: BSG Annual Meeting, Online

Other activities

Secretary, Yorkshire & North-East regional committee, Royal Geographical Society

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD students (Sheffield Hallam University):

Karuna Pimprasan (2020-2023): Optimisation of strategies using spatial approaches to manage flood risk in Thailand, co-supervision (director of studies) with Dr Rebecca Sharpe.

Krystle Morley (2021-2024): Radical water futures in the Don catchment, co-supervision (director of studies) with Prof Harriet Tarlo (Humanities) and Dr Kev Spence.

Sarah Walton (2020-2023): Holocene climate and environmental change in south east Iceland, co-supervision (third advisor) with Dr Naomi Holmes and Dr Rob Storrar.

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