Dr Megan Klaar
- Job title: Associate Professor
- Email: m.j.klaar@leeds.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 113 343 3376
- Faculty: Faculty of Environment
- School: School of Geography
- Location: Garstang 10.32
- Areas of expertise: natural flood management; hydroecology; extreme hydrological events; water resource management; ecology-hydrology-geomorphology linkages
- Faculty profile link: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geography/staff/1060/dr-megan-klaar
- NFM: water@leeds Natural Flood Management group
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Research Interests
- The use of instream Natural Flood Management (NFM) interventions to reduce flood risk, including the use of environmental tracers to monitor the effectiveness of NFM techniques
- The role of instream wood in the creation of hydraulic and geomorphic development and promotion of biogeochemical hotspots in improving river and ground water quality
- The use of hydroecological evidence to improve water resource management policies
- The influence of extreme hydrological events on geomorphology and ecology, including community and landform resilience and recovery