Overview
Jess is a final year PhD student on the Water Informatics Science and Enginerring (WISE) CDT programme (WISE CDT; EP/L016214/1). Prior to joining WISE, she graduated from Cardiff University with a BSc (Hons) in Marine Geography, to then go on and complete an MSc in Water Engineering at the University of Exeter. Currently in her final year, she is working alongside the ENRICH (Enhancing Resilience to future Hydro-meteorological extremes in the Mun river basin in Northeast of Thailand) research project (NERC (NE/S002901/1) and the Sustainable Mineral Institute at The University of Queensland Australia. Currently researching Land Use Change, she is modelling historical, current and future land-use changes within two catchments; The Mun river basin (Thailand) and the Angas Bremer region (South Australia). In particular, she is investigating changes in agricultural development, and how this will affect hydro-meteorological extremes, specifically droughts. The ultimate goal, through a number of future land use change scenarios, is to develop vulnerability and risk maps for drought for the Mun River basin, and provide a Water Footprint analysis for Angas Bremer. Jess recently spoke about her work at the virtaul Water Security and Climate Change Conference.Research Interests:
Risk anaylsis for extreme drought and flood hazards,
The Water footprint of agricultural landuses,
Land Use Change impacts on the hydrological cycle,
Socio-economic adaption for future drought conditons.
Papers under reveiw:
Penny, J. et al. (2021) 'Using public participation within Land Use change scenarios for analysing environmental and socioeconomic drivers.' , Envionmenatal Research Letters Focus on Public Participation in Environmental Research.
Penny, J et al. (2021) 'Projecting Land Use Change in the Northeast of Thailand: Using the Dyna-CLUE and FLUS Models.', Journal of hydroinformatics.
Penny, J et al. (2021) 'Local-scale Land Use Change modelling, to understand interactions between groundwater and water resource mangement.
Publications
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2023
- Penny J, Khadka D, Babel M, Alves P, Djordjević S, Chen AS, Loc HH. (2023) Integrated assessment of flood and drought hazards for current and future climate in a tributary of the Mekong river basin, Journal of Water and Climate Change, volume 14, no. 12, pages 4424-4443, DOI:10.2166/wcc.2023.252. [PDF]
- Penny J, Khadka D, Alves PBR, Chen AS, Djordjević S. (2023) Using multi criteria decision analysis in a geographical information system framework to assess drought risk, Water Research X, volume 20, DOI:10.1016/j.wroa.2023.100190.
- Penny J. (2023) Impact of Land-Use Changes on Hydrological Regimes.
- Penny J, Alves PBR, De-Silva Y, Chen AS, Djordjević S, Shrestha S, Babel M. (2023) Analysis of potential nature-based solutions for the Mun River Basin, Thailand, Water Science and Technology, volume 87, no. 6, pages 1496-1514, DOI:10.2166/wst.2023.050. [PDF]
- Penny JS, Ordens CM, Barnett S, Djordjević S, Chen AS. (2023) Vineyards, Vegetables or Business-as-Usual? Stakeholder-Informed Land Use Change Modelling to Predict the Future of a Groundwater-Dependent Prime-Wine Region Under Climate Change, DOI:10.2139/ssrn.4345452.
- Penny J, Ordens CM, Barnett S, Djordjević S, Chen AS. (2023) Small-scale land use change modelling using transient groundwater levels and salinities as driving factors – An example from a sub-catchment of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, Agricultural Water Management, volume 278, pages 108174-108174, article no. 108174, DOI:10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108174. [PDF]
2022
- Penny J, Djordjević S, Chen AS. (2022) Using public participation within land use change scenarios for analysing environmental and socioeconomic drivers, Environmental Research Letters, volume 17, no. 2, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac4764.
