Professor Andy Binley PhD, BSc
Professor of Hydrogeophysics
Further Research Information
Andrew completed a PhD in modelling unsaturated flow in heterogeneous porous media in 1986 and then worked with Keith Beven at Lancaster on the development of tools for the estimation and reduction of uncertainty in hydrological models. This work led to the Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methodology.
Andrew obtained a lectureship in groundwater hydrology at Lancaster in 1989.
Continued work on model calibration and prediction prompted him to start work in the early 1990s on constraining hydrological models with geophysical data. He has developed new tools for this work (e.g. for inversion of electrical resistivity tomography data).
He has been an active contributor to the field of hydrogeophysics, which has emerged over the past decade.
In 1997 Andrew became Senior Lecturer and in 2004 he was awarded a Personal Chair. He is currently Chair of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee, Member of Near Surface Geophysics Focus Group of AGU and Member of the Hydrological Measurement Facility Geophysics Advisory Group of The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI). He is Associate Editor of Vadose Zone Journal, member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and a past member of the NERC Peer Review College.
