Publications:
1974 Cooper B.S.; Harris R.C. and Thompson S.; Land-derived pollutant hydrocarbons; Mar.
Poll. Bull.; 5; p.15-16
1974 Cooper B.S. and Harris R.C., Heavy metals in organic phases of river and estuarine
sediment; Mar.Poll. Bull.; 5; p 24-26
1979 Harris R.C., Research into groundwater quality; Int. Env.& Safety; p9-1 1; (Oct)
1980 Harris R.C., An Investigation into Differences in Nitrate Concentrations of
Groundwater Abstractions in the Smestow Valley, Staffordshire; Report RP 85-069; SevernTrent Water Authority;
1981 Harris R.C. and Sayers, M.A.; The lining and capping of landfill sites; Municipal
Engineer; 158; p.376-379
1982 Harris R.C. and Parry E.L.; Investigations into domestic refuse leachate attenuation in
the unsaturated zone of the Triassic sandstones; in: Effects of Waste Disposal on Ground
and Surface Water; IAHS Publication 139; p. 147-155
1983 Harris R.C., Landfill leachate generation – a Water Authority Viewpoint; Wastes
Management; 73; p.606-612;
1984 Harris R.C. and Lowe D.R.; Changes in the organic fraction of leachate from two
domestic refuse sites on the Triassic sandstones, Nottinghamshire; Q.J.Eng Geol.; 17; p.5769
1985 Harris R.C., Leachate attenuation in aquifers – the story so far; in: Proc of Good
Landfill Practice Seminar; Inst Wastes Management
1986 Harris R.C., Changing attitudes to leachate migration and water resource protection;
in: Proc. Symposium on landfill and water management; Harwell; (June)
1986 Harris R.C. and Skinner A.C.; Statutory controls over waste disposal and the role of
engineering geologists; in: Proc. Planning and Eng. Geology Symp; Geol Soc; Plymouth, Sept
1986.
1988 Harris R.C., Leachate Migration and Attenuation in the Unsaturated Zone of the
Triassic Sandstones in: Land Disposal of Hazardous Wastes – engineering and environmental
issues; ed Gronow, J.R., Schofield A.N., and Jain R.K. p. 175-186, Ellis Horwood Ltd.
1990 Clark L., Gomme J., Carter, A. and Harris R.C., WRc/Soil Survey inert suction sampler;
in: Proc. of Brighton Crop Protection conference; p. 1011-1016
1991 Flavin R. J. and Harris R.C.; Contaminated land, implications for water pollution;
J.IWEM; 5; p.529-533
1992 Harris R.C. and Skinner A.C., Controlling Diffuse Pollution of groundwater from
Agriculture and Industry, J.IWEM, 6, p.569-575
1992 Harris R.C., Strategic planning for new waste disposal sites and groundwater
protection policy; Waste Planning; 2; p.3-6;
1993 Harris Bob; Groundwater pollution risks from underground storage tanks; Land
Contamination and Reclamation; 1; p.197-200
1993 Harris R.C. and Gates G.; Contaminated land: developments in NRA policy and
practice; Env. Policy and Practice; 3; p.113-124
1994 Harris, Bob and Leaf, Simon; Groundwater quality standards and objectives; Env.
Policy and Practice; 4; p.85-92;
1994 Harris R.C., Knox K. and Walker N., A Strategy for the Development of Sustainable
Landfill Design and Operation; Proc. Inst. Wastes Management, 6, p.26-29
1994 Harris R.C., Implementation of the NRA groundwater protection policy; in:
Groundwater Pollution, Liabilities and Engineering Implications; ed. Jones R.H. et al; East
Mids Geotech Group; p.17-25;
1995 Harris R.C.; Colliery Closures in the Midlands: a review of the potential impact of
colliery closures on the water environment in the Midlands; NRA
1995 Harris R.C., The NRA’s role in the management of wastes disposed of to land: in: Proc.
of IWM Conference; p.12-15;
1996 Gronow, Jan and Harris, Bob; LANDSIM: a regulatory tool for the assessment of
landfill site design; Wastes Management; February 1996; p.30-32;
1997 Harris R.C., Setting Goals for the Protection and Remediation of Groundwaters in
Industrial Catchments, in: Groundwater in the Urban Environment, Vol 1: problems,
processes and management, ed. Chilton et al, Rotterdam
1998 Harris R.C., Protection of Groundwater Quality in the UK: present controls and future
issues, in: Groundwater Contaminants and their Migration, ed. Mather et al, Geological
Society Special Publication No. 128, London
1998 Harris R.C. and Herbert S., An Integrated Regulatory Approach for Risk Assessment
and the Development and Use of Guideline Values for Contaminated Land Remediation in
the UK, procedings of ConSoil 98, p.755-756, Thomas Telford, London
1998 Hall D.H., Harris R.C., Moncaster S., Plimmer B. and Rogers M., Quantifying the Risk
Posed to Groundwater for Contaminated Land – The ConSim Model, Proceedings of ConSoil
98, p.1035-1036, Thomas Telford, London
2000 Fletcher S.W., Evers S., Ward R S. and Harris R.C.; Defining land zones for minimising
nitrate leaching to groundwater using a combined spatial data and risk based approach;
in: proceedings of the international conference on agricultural effects on ground and surface
waters: research at the edge of society; Wageningen, October 2000.
2000 Harris, Bob; Smith, Jonathan; Finnamore, Jim; Carey, Mike; Morrey, Mick and
Marsland, Tony; Adopting Monitored Natural Attenuation as an Option for the
Remediation of Polluted Groundwater in the UK; Proceedings of Contaminated Soil 2000; p.
474-477, Thomas Telford, London,
2000 Harris R.C; Earl N; Harris M; Swannell R; and Smith J.W.N; Case Comparison: Bitterfeld
Problem – UK Solution; in: Special Supplement to the Proceedings of Contaminated Soil
2000; Leipzig
2001 Darmendrail, Dominique and Harris, Bob; Water Resource Protection Issues in
Relation to Contaminated Land; Land Contamination and Reclamation; 9; p. 89-94;
2001 Darmendrail D; Harris R.C and Ziegler U; Comparison of Current water Protection
Strategies and Outlook on Future Developments; in: Proceedings of final CLARINET
Conference; Vienna
2001 Ellis P.A; Rivett M.O; Henstock J; Dowle J; Mackay R; Ward R.S; and Harris R. C; Impacts
of Contaminated Groundwater on Urban River Water Quality, Birmingham, UK; In:
Proceedings of Groundwater Quality 2001 Conference; Sheffield
2001 Evers S; Fletcher S.W; Ward R.S. and Harris R.C; A Strategy for the Protection of
Groundwater from Nitrate Leaching using Spatial and Geo-statistical Analyses; in: New
Approaches to Characterising Groundwater Flow; Proceedings of the XXXI IAH Congress,
Munich; ed by Seiler K.P. and Wohnlich; ISBN 902651;
2001 Harris R.C; Tinsley D. and Power B; Navigating a Course through Dirty Mud in England
and Wales; in: Proceedings of International Conference on the remediation of Contaminated
Sediments; Venice
2001 Harris, Bob; The Regulation of Land Contamination – looking ahead; International
Clean-up Conference; Manchester
2003 Thompson, James; Mckinley, James; Harris, Robert; Hart, Alwyn; Hicks, Peter;
Ramsden, David and Wilson, Barbara; MTBE Occurrence in Surface and Ground Water;
Chapter 4, p.63-72, in MTBE Remediation Handbook; ed: Moyer, Ellen and Kostecki, Paul;
Amherst Science, Massachusetts
2004 Harris RC, Phillips N., and Evers S; Diffuse Pollution from Agricultural Land: the need
for integrated catchment management and radical rural land use change; Hydrology:
Science and practice for the 21st century; British Hydrological Society International
Conference, Imperial College London, July 2004
2005 Bone, BD, Harris, RC, Smith, JWN, Boshoff, G, Kalin, RM, Thurgood, R, and Morgan P,
The development and use of permeable reactive barrier technologies and potential future
applications in the UK. Permeable Reactive Barriers: Proceedings of the International
Symposium held at Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2004, p.52-59, IAHS Publication 298
2006 D.N. Lerner, B. Surridge, A. Paetzold and R.C. Harris, 2006. What should environmental
scientists provide to help decision-making for integrated catchment management? Invited
abstract and presentation, Water Forum, Centre for Water Research, Peking University 28 th
July 2006
2006 Jeffrey Turner, Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen Mike Bonell; Jean-Pierre Duguet, Bob Harris,
Rainer Meckenstock, Kevin McGuire, Roger Moussa, Norman Peters, Hans H. Richnow,
Barbara Sherwood-Lollar, Stefan Uhlenbrook and Henny van Lanen; Future trends in
transport and fate of diffuse contaminants in catchments, with special emphasis on stable
isotope applications; Hydrol. Process. 20, 205–213,
2007 J.W.N, Smith, M, Bonell, J, Gibert, , W.H, McDowell, E.A. Sudicky, J.V. Turner, and R.C
Harris: Groundwater – surface water interactions, nutrient fluxes and ecological response
in river corridors: Translating science into effective environmental management; Hydrol.
Process 2007
2007 Ben Surridge and Bob Harris: Science-driven integrated river basin management: a
mirage? Interdisciplinary Science Review, 33, 298-312
2007 David Lerner, Bob Harris, Ben Surridge,. The role of groundwater in catchment
management. in: Ribeiro, Chambel & de Melo (eds), Groundwater and Ecosystems,
Abstract Book 35th IAH Congress, Lisbon, p62, Sept 2007. ISBN 978-989-95297-2-4
2007 K Hiscock, A Lovett, A Saich, T Dockerty, P Johnson, C Sandhu, G Sünnenberg, K
Appleton, B Harris, J Greaves: Modelling Land Use Scenarios to Reduce Groundwater
Nitrate Pollution –The European Water4all Project; QJEG, 40, 417-434
2007 A.Holzkaemper, B.Surridge, A.Paetzold, D.N.Lerner, L.Maltby, J.Wainwright,
M.Niranjan, B.Harris: Bayesian networks for a multi-objective evaluation of River Basin
Management Plans. In: Conference proceedings of the 6th European Conference on
Ecological Modelling, Trieste, Italy, Nov 2007, p. 223.
2008 Jos Brils, Damia Barcelo, Winfried Blum, Werner Brack, Bob Harris, Dietmar Mller,
Philippe Negrel, Vala Ragnarsdottir, Wim Salomons, Thomas Track and Joop Vegter; Risk
Assessment linked to Monitoring and Management. Chapter 7.1 in: The Water Framework
Directive: Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring ed by: Philippe Quevauviller et al.,
Wiley; ISBN 978-0-470-51836-6
2008 Philippe Quevauviller, Bob Harris and Philippe Vervier; Needs for an operational
science-policy mechanism in support of WFD monitoring? National and regional examples.
Chapter 10.1 in: The Water Framework Directive: Ecological and Chemical Status Monitoring
ed by: Philippe Quevauviller et al., Wiley; ISBN 978-0-470-51836-6
2008 Werner Brack, Sabine Apitz, Dietrich Borchart, Jos Brils, Ana Cardoso, Edwin Foekema,
Jos van Gils, Stefan Jansen, Bob Harris, Michaela Hein, Susanne Heise, Seppo Hellsten, GertJan de Maagd, Dietmar Muller, Vadim Panov, Leo Posthuma, Philippe Quevauviller, Piet
Verdonshot, and Peter Carsten von der Ohe; Towards a holistic and risk-based
management of European river basins, Integrated Environmental Assessment and
Management (IEAM)
2009 B.Surridge, A.Holt, and R.Harris , Developing the evidence base for Integrated
Catchment Management: challenges and opportunities; Chapter in: Water System Science
and Policy Interfacing; ed by Quevauviller, P; published by Wiley.
2009 David N. Lerner and Bob Harris; The relationship between land use and groundwater
resources and quality; Land Use Policy 26S, S265-S273.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.09.005
2009 J.Brils and B.Harris (Eds.) Towards Risk-Based Management or European River Basins:
Key-findings and recommendations of the RISKBASE project, EC FP6 reference GOCE
036938, December 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Downloadable via: www.riskbase.info
2012 McGonigle, D.F., Harris, R.C., Kirk, S., Macdonald, J., McCamphill, C., Dils, R. and Bailey,
S.; Towards a more strategic approach to catchment-based research to support policy on
agricultural pollution; Env. Sci. and Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2012.07.016
2013 Chapters in: Brils J., Brack W., Muller-Grabherr D., Negrel P., Vermaat J.E. (eds); RiskInformed Management of European River Basins; Springer, Heilberg
a) Jos Brils, Damia Barcelo, Winfried Blum, Werner Brack, Bob Harris, Dietmar MullerGrabherr, Philippe Negrel, Vala Ragnardottir, Wim Salomons, Adriaan Slob, Thomas Track,
Joop Vegter and Jan E. Vermaat; Introduction: The Need for Risk-Informed River Basin
Management
b) Peter C. von der Ohe, Dick de Zwart, Elena Semenzin, Sabine E. Apitz, Stefania Gottardo,
Bob Harris, Michaela Hein, Antonia Marcomini, Leo Posthuma, Ralf B. Schafer, Helmut
Segner and Werner Brack; Monitoring Programmes, Multiple Sress Analysis and Decision
Supprot for River Basin Management.
c) Jan E. Vermaat, Sabine E. Apitz, Winfried Blum, Bob Harris, Fritz A. Hellmann, Wim
Salomons and Tijs van Maastakkers; Framing the Uncertain Future: Articulating IPPC-SRES
Scenarios for European River Basins.
d) Dietmar Muller-Grabherr, Marie Valentin Florin, Bob Harris, Damian Crilly, Goran Gugic,
Joop Vegter, Adriaan Slob, Ilke Boroski and Jos Brils; Integrated River Basin Management
and Risk Governance.
e) Jos Brils, Bob Harris, Damia Barcelo, Winfried Blum, Werner Brack, Dietmar MullerGrabherr, Philippe Negrel, Vala Ragnardottir, Wim Salomons, Adriaan Slob, Thomas Track,
Joop Vegter and Jan E. Vermaat; Synthesis and Recommendations Towards Risk-Informed
River Basin Management
2014 (in press) McGonigle D.F., Burke S.P., Collins A.L, Gartner R., Haft M.R., Harris R.C.,
Haygarth P.M., Hedges M.C., Hiscock K.M., Lovett A.A.; Developing Demonstration Test
Catchments as a platform for transdisciplinary land management research in England and
Wales
Conference Presentations
Over 200 presentations (many as invited/key-note speaker) to open conferences or closed
and/or specialist meetings. Selected examples since 2000:
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International Contaminated Land Ad-hoc Group meetings, Geneva, 2001 (natural
attenuation); Montreal 2003 (Environmental Liability)
NICOLE meetings, Copenhagen 2000 (invited lecture on source management); Rotterdam
2001 (invited paper on natural attenuation and Water Framework Directive)
CLARINET Final Conference, Vienna 2001 (invited paper on contaminated land and
Water Framework Directive)
Groundwater Protection, Birmingham 2001 (keynote on groundwater protection)
Dechema International Conference on Natural Attenuation, Heidelburg 2003 (invited
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UNESCO workshops:
- Budapest 2001 (chair and keynote on groundwater protection);
- Freiburg 2003 (invited presentation on groundwater/surface water interactions);
- Munich 2004 (chair and facilitator on transport and fate of diffuse contaminants in
catchments with special emphasis on stable isotope applications.)
- Oxford 2005 (chair and facilitator on river corridor hydrology).
Gordon Conference on Catchment Science: Interactions of Hydrology, Biology &
Geochemistry, Waterville, USA 2005; Invited Oral Presentation - The challenges of
integrated catchment management.
EU Groundwater Conference, Vienna 2006. Invited Oral Presentation - Water4all project
11th Lower Saxony Groundwater Workshop, Germany 2006; Invited Oral Presentation Tackling Diffuse Pollution
British Crop Protection Conference – Crop Science & Technology 2006, Glasgow Invited
Oral Presentation - Risk based approaches to controlling diffuse pollution,
NERC LOCAR Finale Conference, London 2006, Invited Oral Presentation - Significance of
LOCAR for catchment management
Current Research Gaps, Soil-to-Water Pollution Transfers Workshop, Nottingham 2006,
Invited Oral Presentation - WFD & the UK
NICOLE 10th Anniversary Conference - Making Management of Contaminated Land an
Obsolete Business Leuven, Belgium 2006, Invited Oral Presentation - Managing
Contaminated Land risks at different scales - the challenges ahead.
UNESCO Southern HELP conference, Johannesburg, S.Africa, November 2007 Invited
visionary (keynote) paper.
GroPro - Groundwater Protection Plans and Implementation in a North European
Perspective – conference at Korsør, Denmark 15-17 Sept 2008. Invited keynote
RiskBase final conference – Mechelen, Belgium, Nov 2009; Invited keynote
ModelKey final conference – Liepzig, Germany, 30 Nov-2 Dec 2009. Invited keynote
Integrated River Basin Management under the Water Framework Directive - action
programmes and adaptation to climate change, conference at Lille 26-28 April 2010
Invited opening speech.
EU Conference on: The Application of EU Related Policies at Farm Level – Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium; 29 September 2010 - Chair of session
WFD Common Implementation Strategy - Science Policy Interface conference – When
Ecosystems Services come into play. Brussels, 29 September 2011, Chair of session
WFD Common Implementation Strategy - Science Policy Interface conference – Water
Science meets policy: how to streamline knowledge to address WFD challenges?
Brussels, 14 November 2012 - invited keynote lecture
EC Green Week, Brussels 2012 – invited lecture