Professor Steven Banwart
- Job title: Global Food and Environment Institute, Director and Leadership Chair in Integrated Soil / Agriculture / Water Research
- Email: s.a.banwart@leeds.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 113 343 1413
- Faculty: Faculty of Environment
- School: School of Earth and Environment
- Location: SEE 8.106
- Areas of expertise: Weathering of rock and minerals to deliver solutes to drainage waters in catchments and river basins, biogeochemistry and natural biodegradation of hydrocarbon pollution in groundwater aquifers
- Faculty profile link: https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1143/professor-steven-banwart
Prof. Steven Banwart’s core science expertise is basic chemistry that is also applied to the study of soil systems and natural waters. His achievements include combining laboratory experimentation, theoretical mathematical modelling, and data from field studies in order to describe water flow and transport and mechanism of chemical transformations that quantify:
- Soil functions that produce crops, store and filter infiltrating water, transform nutrients, store carbon from the atmosphere as organic matter, provide habitat and sustain biodiversity
- Weathering of rock and minerals to deliver solutes to drainage waters in catchments and river basins including the release of contamination from mining sites
- Role of the geological barrier to contain civilian high level nuclear waste within underground repositories constructed in bedrock
- Biogeochemistry and natural biodegradation of hydrocarbon pollution in soil and groundwater aquifers