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Dr Caspar Hewett

Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5950
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  • Address: School of Engineering
    Room 3.09, Cassie Building
    缅北禁地
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

is a lecturer in Computational Hydraulics, Degree Programme Director for the EuroAquae+ International MSc. programme in Hydroinformatics and Water Management in School of Engineering and 缅北禁地 lead for NERC Flood Centre for Doctoral Training. He has over thirty years of research, management and consultancy experience in academia, industry and the private sector and has taught and lectured a variety of subjects including mathematics, numerical methods, hydraulics, catchment management, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), market research techniques, engineering ethics, philosophy of science, environmental issues and English as a Foreign language. 

Caspar has a  with videos of teaching materials covering Fluid Mechanics, Computational Hydraulics and related mathematics.

Caspar is Director and Chair of , a community organisation that has maintained a space for public debate in the North East since 1998 and provides adult education, documentary-making training for young people and debate workshops for schools. He was a founder member of the North East of England's United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (), and was Director of NECTER (North East Centre for Transformative Education and Research), the co-ordinating body for RCE North East, 2011-2013.

Caspar is a member of the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Associate Peer Review College. He was a member of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College July 2005 - 2008 and was a NESTA Crucible Awardee 2006. He has held a series of visiting fellowships at 缅北禁地, at the Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (2006 - 2008) and Sir Joseph Swan Institute for Energy Research (2008-2010).

In the past few years he has received a number of invitations both nationally and internationally to speak and teach on interdisciplinary approaches to water resources research including: keynote speaker at Teesside University Engineering Away Day (2022), keynote speaker at International Workshop on Hydroinformatics and Water Management, Islamabad (2018); keynote speaker at Flood Disaster Management Conference: Building Resilience, Manchester (2018); invited speaker on the panel of discussions at the Battle of Ideas Festival, London (2005, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023); invited speaker at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Congress (2017); keynote speaker at Consilium, Queensland, Australia, 2012; invited speaker at Cheltenham Science Festival (2009, 2010); one-month fellowship at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Iowa University advising on the creation of a hydrological observatory for the Upper Mississippi River Basin (2007); invited representative of the Eden catchment at UNESCO HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy) conference in South Africa (2007); Catchment Management workshop, Turkey (2005); keynote speaker at OECD workshop "Improving the Balance Between Economic Agricultural Production and Environmental Quality through Enhanced Decision Making," Honolulu (2004).

He has presented his research at international conferences such as EGU General Congress, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting and Hydroinformatics and has convened five Great Debates at EGU General Congress (2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), which has resulted in invitations to attend and chair at EGU’s expense. He is a member of EGU and AGU.

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Research

Research Interests

Water Resources; Decision support, Computational Hydraulics; Numerical methods; Sediment transport; Sustainability; The notion of progress

Current Research

Interventions in the landscape to reduce flood risk, soil erosion, nutrient and pesticide export from farming.

Development of physically-based models of shallow water flow, in-stream leaky barriers, hillslope soil erosion.

Decision support tools such as the CAVERTI [Communicating and Visualizing Erosion-Associated Risks to Infrastructure] tool and FARM [Floods and Agriculture Risk Matrix] tool ().

Teaching

CEG8517: Computational Hydraulics (2015/16 - present) (Module Leader)

CEG8525: Hydrosystems Processes and Data Analysis (2020/21 - present) (Module Leader)

ENG1005: Thermofluid Mechanics (2020/21 - present)

CEG3503: Hydrosystems Engineering (2020-2022)

CEG1501: Fluid Mechanics (2015-2020) (Module Leader)

CEG8501: Quantitative Methods for Engineering (2015-2018) (Module Leader)

CEG3305: Computational Engineering Analysis (2015-2017)

CEG3001: Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 1 (2015/16)

CEG3004: Design of Sustainable Engineering Systems 3 (2015/16)

CEG8506: Hydrosystems Modelling (2015/16)

CEG8523: Modelling and Forecasting of Floods (2015/16)

Geo3117: Sustainable Water Resource Management (2012-2017)

Geo3120: Putting a Social Science Degree into Practice (2012)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Oyarmoi A, Birkinshaw S, Hewett CJM, Fowler HJ. . Land 2023, 12(12), 2158.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Wilkinson ME, Adams R. . Water 2022, 14(23), 3807.
    • Leakey S, Glenis V, Hewett CJMH. . OpenFOAM Journal 2022, 2, 31-47.
    • Leakey S, Glenis V, Hewett CJM. . Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 2022, 393, 114763.
    • Leakey S, Hewett CJM, Glenis V, Quinn PF. . Water 2020, 12(2), 371.
    • Hewett CJM, Wilkinson ME, Jonczyk J, Quinn PF. . WIREs Water 2020, 7(3), e1417.
    • Kitchener BGB, Dixon SD, Howarth KO, Parsons AJ, Wainwright J, Bateman MD, Cooper JR, Hargrave GK, Long EJ, Hewett CJM. . HardwareX 2019, 5, e00052.
    • Hewett CJM, Simpson C, Wainwright J, Hudson S. . Land Degradation and Development 2018, 29(4), 1282-1294.
    • Hewett CJM, Quinn PF, Wilkinson ME. . Agricultural Water Management 2016, 172, 74-82.
    • Long EJ, Hargrave GK, Cooper JR, Kitchener BGB, Parsons AJ, Hewett CJM, Wainwright J. . Physical Review E 2014, 89, 032201.
    • Wilkinson ME, Quinn PF, Hewett CJM. . International Journal of River Basin Management 2013, 11(3), 237-252.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Muste M, Popescu I. . Proceedings of the ICE - Water Management 2010, 163(1), 39-51.
    • Hewett CJM, Doyle A, Quinn PF. . Journal of Hydroinformatics 2010, 12(2), 119-139.
    • Hewett CJM, Quinn PF, Heathwaite AL, Doyle A, Burke S, Whitehead PG, Lerner DN. . Environmental Modelling & Software 2009, 24(1), 74-85.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Dayawansa NDK. . Hydrological Processes 2008, 22(14), 2565-2580.
    • Posthumus H, Hewett CJM, Morris J, Quinn PF. . Agricultural Water Management 2008, 95(7), 787-798.
    • Pugh J, Hewett C, Chandler D. . Area 2007, 39(1), 107-109.
    • Heathwaite AL, Quinn PF, Hewett CJM. . Journal of Hydrology 2005, 304(1-4), 446-461.
    • Hewett CJM, Quinn PF, Whitehead PG, Heathwaite AL, Flynn NJ. . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2004, 8(4), 834-845.
    • Erduran KS, Kutija V, Hewett CJM. . International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 2002, 40(10), 1237-1273.
    • Kutija V, Hewett CJM. . Journal of Hydraulic Research 2002, 40(2), 145-152.

  • Book Chapters

    • Leakey S, Hewett CJM, Glenis V, Quinn PF. . In: Philippe Gourbesville and Guy Caignaert, ed. Advances in Hydroinformatics: Models for Complex and Global Water Issues - Practices and Expectations. Singapore: Springer, 2022, pp.965-978.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Doyle A. . In: Hatfield, JL, ed. The Farmer's Decision: Balancing Economic Agriculture Production with Environmental Quality. Iowa, USA: Soil & Water Conservation Society, 2005, pp.173-204.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Doyle A. . In: Tchiguirinskaia I; Bonell M; Hubert P, ed. Scales in hydrology and water management. Wallingford: International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2004, pp.17-38.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM, Doyle A. Integrated Water Management: A Multi-Scale Framework for Decision Support. In: OECD. 2004.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Hewett CJM, Quinn PF. . In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics. 2004, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company.
    • Hewett CJM, Quinn PF. . In: 7th International Specialised Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management. 2003, Dublin, Ireland.
    • Quinn PF, Hewett CJM. . In: 7th International Specialised Conference on Diffuse Pollution and Basin Management. 2003, Dublin, Ireland.
    • Hewett CJM, Kutija V. . In: Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2002. 2002, Cardiff: IWA Publishing.
    • Erduran KS, Kutija V, Hewett CJM. . In: Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics 2002. 2002, Cardiff: IWA Publishing.
    • Hewett CJM, Hope R. A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Assessing the Effects of Water and Land Use Policy on Livelihoods. In: Fifth International Conference on Hydroinformatics. 2002, Cardiff: IWA Publishing.
    • Kutija V, Hewett CMJ, Erduran KS. . In: 4th International Conference Hydroinformatics. 2000, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research.
    • Erduran KS, Kutija V, Hewett CJM. . In: Hydroinformatics 2000. 2000, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA: Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research.

  • Online Publications

    • Hewett CJM. . 2009. Available at: .
    • Hewett CJM. . thegreatdebate.org.uk, 2008. Available at: .