Joseph Holden

@geojho

Professor of physical geography, Director of @wateratleeds, Director of @YorkshireiCASP, NERC UK Freshwater Quality Champion

Leeds environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staf… Joined June 2009

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Joseph Holden @geojho Sep 11

New paper just published from Pei Xue’s PhD project examining sensitivity of 547 British Rivers to changing rainfall and how different factors influence the sensitivity. Free access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hy… @DomSpracklen @EnvLeeds

onlinelibrary.wiley.com Drivers of Runoff Sensitivity in the Rivers of Great Britain This graphical abstract summarises the spatial structure of runoff sensitivity across Great Britain. We find that runoff sensitivity varies greatly across regions and seasons. Vegetation cover and...

Joseph Holden @geojho Aug 24

Our new open access paper from Hong Wang’s PhD showing how climate warming causes more barriers for fish along rivers due to water temperatures exceeding thresholds for species: nature.com/articles/s4155… @NatureClimate @wateratleeds

www.nature.com Climate warming drives thermal shocks and accelerated freshwater habitat fragmentation Nature Climate Change - Assessing 9,809 freshwater fish species globally, this study shows risk to a high proportion of species in the tropics, and severe extremes in non-tropical regions. Under...

Joseph Holden @geojho Nov 10, 2025

New funded PhD opportunity with us on large-scale export of aquatic carbon from peatlands: yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/large…

Deadline 7 January 2026

Joseph Holden @geojho Oct 3, 2025

Free access paper from Josiah Judson's PhD on how agroforestry tree spacing and hillslope location influence temperate soil functioning sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @chapmanpippa

Joseph Holden @geojho Sep 29, 2025

New paper from PhD by @Qiuyu0825 which describes joining of Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL to a hydrodynamic model to investigate how different natural flood management techniques interact to influence flooding at large catchment scales. Free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com A Coupled Hydrological‐Hydrodynamic Modelling Approach for Assessing the Impacts of Multiple... While natural flood management (NFM) as a flood mitigation strategy is becoming widely used, there remains a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of different NFM scenarios under high flow...