The John Day bursary
BACKGROUND TO THE JOHN DAY BURSARY
The British Chapter of the IAH awards a bursary to support students in undertaking hydrogeology-related fieldwork outside Great Britain as part of their postgraduate studies.
The bursary is named in honour of John Day, former Chief Hydrogeologist of the BGS and dedicated member of IAH, being a member of the organising committee of the first UK Congress in 1977; chair of the UK national committee when the Cambridge Congress was held in 1985, and Vice President of IAH from 1984 to 1993.
Open to postgraduate students studying at any university in Great Britain, the bursary reflects John Day’s commitment to the need for the science of hydrogeology to serve society at home and internationally.
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The bursary currently has a value of £750, and the successful applicant also receives a 1 year free membership of IAH. The bursary winner is also invited to submit a poster for presentation at the annual Ineson Lecture, usually held in the autumn at the Geological Society, London.
PAST AWARDS
The winner of the 2022 award was Orchella Vofo Teyimgue from Cranfield University, for her project ‘Evaluating implementation methods for a community-scale groundwater treatment technology in Guanajuato, Mexico’
The 2022 runner up was Jonny Mells from Newcastle University, for his project ‘The viability of an autocalibration solution to poor SHETRAN-GB model performance in groundwater dominated catchments’.
Three awards were made in 2021:
- Georgia Williams of Imperial College for a project on ‘Application of numerical models to investigate the vertical heterogeneity in the Chalk aquifer’.
- Juan Fernando Rivera-Velásquez of Newcastle University for a project on ‘Estimating Agricultural Groundwater Use from Remote Sensing’.
- Sonia Singh of the University of Birmingham for a project on ‘Surface Complexation Model of Fluoride Sorption on English Triassic Sandstone’.
In 2020 two awards were made; to Joe Shipperbottom of Newcastle University for his project ‘Estimating Reliable outputs from groundwater sources in the private water supply sector.’ and Thomas Edward Randriamahavorisoa at Birmingham University, for his project ‘Numerical modelling of a phytoremediation scheme implemented into a dissolved-phase plume and assessment of the establishment of hydraulic control’.
The 2019 award went to Angelique Buisson for her project ‘Conceptual and numerical model of the hydrogeological system underlying the Rohingya refugee camp and it’s surroundings in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh’
The 2018 award went to Sean Watson, a PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow, for his project: Developing Optimised Borehole Heat Exchanger Designs for Deep Geothermal Single Well Systems.
The 2017 award went to Rachael Fletcher, MSc Hydrogeology Course, University of Birmingham for her project: Determining the Hydraulic Behaviour of a Greenschist Metasediment Aquifer, Malaysia.
The 2016 award went to David Walker to support his project: The vulnerability of the shallow groundwater resource in Molototsi catchment, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
The 2015 award went to Helen Robinson to support her fieldwork investigating geothermal resources at the Menengai Caldera in the East African Rift Valley, Kenya.
The 2014 award went to Richard Cheal for his project: An evaluation of basic geophysical and borehole logging approaches for improving borehole placement and wellbore construction: A case study examining a saline-contaminated fluvial aquifer in southern Malawi.
The 2013 award went to Amando Borge Izquierdo for his research project: Study of the capability of artificial recharge to reduce seasonal differences in groundwater accessibility and improve the development of permaculture through a better understanding of groundwater in the Shire Valley Alluvial Aquifer in Malawi.
The 2011 award went to Tahir Nagji for his work on: Groundwater – surface water interactions and biogeochemical conditions in coastal forest ecosystem subject to be harvested in coastal British Columbia, Canada.