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; Severn- Trent 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.57- 69

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 28th 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, Gert- Jan 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); Risk- Informed Management of European River Basins; Springer, Heilberg a) Jos Brils, Damia Barcelo, Winfried Blum, Werner Brack, Bob Harris, Dietmar Muller- Grabherr, 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 Muller- Grabherr, 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:

 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 keynote)  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-la- Neuve, 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