Staff Profile

Tess has worked in hydrogeology and related functions for over 20 years. She started her career with the regulator for groundwater and contaminated land in England (the Environment Agency) before moving to Australia to work for environmental consultancy and the government. After completing an MSc in Environmental Engineering at Newcastle University Tess went in a new direction as a technical lead for the provision of water and sanitation post-disaster. Her work took her around the world, with international NGOs and the UN, responding to everything from drought, to displacement and disease.



Tess completed a PhD focused on the use of citizen science for delineating variations in rainfall, particularly from convective events that can result in pluvial flooding. She enjoyed the challenge and is now one of two UK representatives for the EU COST action; OpenSense (https://opensenseaction.eu/) – facilitating international collaboration between researchers looking at opportunistic precipitation sensing networks. 

Tess is module lead for groundwater related modules from School of Engineering, comprising;

Groundwater Assessment - https://www.ncl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/module.php?code=CEG8511

Groundwater Modelling - https://www.ncl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/module.php?code=CEG8516

Borehole Design, Construction and Operation - https://www.ncl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/module.php?code=CEG8507

She is supervising MSc projects on nitrates in groundwater from the Fell Sandstone, the value of multi-level monitoring of groundwater, the development of Source Protection Zones on the East Yorkshire Chalk Aquifer and the use of field methods at the Newcastle University Borehole Array facility at Cockle Park Farm near Morpeth.