Ursula McKnight
Ph.D.
Ursula McKnight
Role in team
- Senior researcher
- Scientific leader in the area of nature-based solutions (NBS)
Expertise
- Application of systems thinking approaches to water resources management
- Aquatic ecohydrology, with focus on multiple stressors impacting freshwater ecosystems
- Contaminant hydrogeology, including micropollutant fate and transport across the groundwater-surface water interface
- Nature-based Solutions, with focus on holistic risk management strategies
- Decision support systems development, to improve science-policy interlinkages along the climate-hydrology-impact modelling chain.
Professional records
- Current projects: Copernicus Climate Change Service; Destination Earth On-demand Extremes Digital Twin
- H-index 15 (WoS); 17 (GS)
- i10-index 22
- 35 peer-reviewed publications
Interpretable machine learning for predicting the fate and transport of pentachlorophenol in groundwater
Mehran Rad, Azra Abtahi, Ronny Berndtsson, Ursula McKnight, Amir Aminifar
Coupling pathway prediction and fluorescence spectroscopy to assess the impact of auxiliary substrates on micropollutant biodegradation
Anna-Ricarda Schittich, Kathrin Fenner, Colin A. Stedmon, Jianxin Xu, Ursula McKnight, Barth F. Smets
Tracer concentration mapping in a stream with hyperspectral images from unoccupied aerial systems
Christian J. Koppl, Ursula McKnight, Gregory G. Lemaire, Agnete M. Norregaard, Thea C. Thiim, Poul L. Bjerg, Peter Bauer-Gottwein, Monica Garcia
