A career overview and selected classified archive to published work from 1972 to 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

• Fractured Aquifer
  Dynamics

• Groundwater
  Pollution Protection

• Strategic Role of Groundwater

• Groundwater
  Governance
  & Management

• Urban Groundwater

• Agriculture &
  Groundwater
  

Most publications listed are available as pdf downloads  – for access to others use reference libraries.

• developed concept of a World Bank- Groundwater Management Advisory Team (jointly with Dr John Briscoe) at the 2^nd World Water Forum (Den Haag–March 2000) and subsequently put into operation under Dutch, British, Danish & Swedish trust funding (jointly with Dr Karin Kemper), developing a global reputation for authoritative advice on groundwater management and protection
• the GW-MATE initiative generated an extensive Briefing Note Series and Case Profile Collection in the public domain (www.worldbank.org/gwmate)  on this neglected aspect of water resources management

Focusing IAH on Development Agenda

• as IAH–Burdon Commission Chair during 1987-1997, and later as IAH President during 2004-08, made a major effort to address groundwater concerns of developing nations (www.iah.org)
• one of the first professional societies to develop sponsored membership, to facilitate developing-nation authors to publish geographically-referenced work and to celebrate congresses in developing world

Groundwater Advocacy in Global Dialogue

• canvassed for an ‘international reference centre for groundwater resources’ (IGRAC www.un-igrac.org) at the WMO/UNESCO Joint Inter-Governmental Council Meeting 1999, and subsequently advised Dutch government on its formation
• proposed to GEF during 2006-08 the promotion of an ‘international agency initiative’ to formulate an action framework and investment priorities for strengthening groundwater governance

Work on Applied Groundwater science

• including amongst the first publications on pollutant transport in dual-porosity aquifers, diffuse groundwater pollution by agricultural land-use, aquifer pollution vulnerability mapping and groundwater governance – together with an extensive output on the groundwater interactions with urbanisation processes and agricultural practices
• spokesman at numerous global and European water fora on the importance of the resource and its intimate linkages with land-use practices